The Reading Room with Eric Chock
Channel: EMC Leeward CC
Date: 12/10/2023

Eric Chock shares his work and creative process in The Reading Room.  He is the author of a book of poems:  Last Days Here, which includes poems written in Hawaiʻi Creole English (also known as Pidgin). He is co-founder of Bamboo Ridge Press with Darrell H. Y. Lum. 

Eric has edited and has been published in many anthologies and collections and is the recipient of several awards including the Elliot Cades Award for Literature, the Pushcart Prize, and the Hawaii Award for Literature.  He was the Coordinator of Poets in the Schools for the Department of Education for more than 20 years.