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Eric Chock is a Hawaiian poet, scholar and editor. He served as a professor of English and humanities at the
University of Hawaiʻi – West Oʻahu The University of Hawaiʻi – West Oʻahu (UHWO) is a public college in Kapolei, Hawaii. It is part of the University of Hawaiʻi system. It offers baccalaureate degrees in liberal arts and professional studies. UHWO opened in January 1976 an ...
, and coordinated the state's "Poets in the Schools" program for more than twenty years. In 1978, he cofounded the literary journal ''
Bamboo Ridge ''Bamboo Ridge'' (in full ''Bamboo Ridge: Journal of Hawai'i Literature and Arts'') is a Hawaii-based literary journal and nonprofit press. It was founded in 1978 by Eric Chock and Darrell H.Y. Lum to publish works by and for the people of Haw ...
'' with Darrell H. Y. Lum to encourage the growth of a distinctly Hawaiian literary style. Authors whose works appeared in ''Bamboo Ridge'' included
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. Pak described the journal as "the primary literary force in Hawaii today", and it received the Hawaii Award for Literature in 1996 from the Hawaii Literary Arts Council. The success and influence of the Bamboo Ridge group of writers, among whom Chock himself was included, was later examined in detail by literary critic Rob Wilson in his study ''Reimagining the American Pacific''. Chock has also edited several anthologies featuring Hawaiian writers, as well as ''Small Kid Time Hawaii'' and ''Haku Mele o Hawaii'', two collections of children's poetry. He received the Elliot Cades Award for Literature in 1996.


Bibliography

*''Moving Toward the Light: A Sequence of Poems'' (1977) *''Ten Thousand Wishes'' (1978) *''Talk Story: An Anthology of Hawaii's Local Writers'' (1978) (editor) *''The Best of Bamboo Ridge'' (1986) (edited with Darrell H. Y. Lum) *''Pake: Writings by Chinese in Hawaii'' (1989) (edited with Darrell H. Y. Lum) *''Last Days Here'' (1990) *''Pass On, No Pass Back!'' (1990) (edited with Darrell H. Y. Lum and Art Kodani) *''The Best of Honolulu Fiction'' (1999) (edited with Darrell H. Y. Lum)


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Works by Eric Chock at WorldCat
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chock, Eric Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American male poets Poets from Hawaii