Bradajo ("Brother Joe"Bess Press: Da Kine Dictionary ) is the pen name of Jozuf Hadley, also known as Joe Hadley (born 1932), an American poet, sculptor, and art teacher who writes in Hawaiian Pidgin.
Chaloookyu Eensai, his 1972 recording with printed translation, is believed to be the first publication in Hawaiian Pidgin.Bradajo on Project MUSE He was born on Kauai.
Books Avebade Bade = Everybody Body : Hawaii’s Pidgin Poetry, Mutual Pub., c2002. 2 Poems, Tinfish Press, c2006.
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