Bradajo

bradajo ("Brother Joe" [http://www.besspress.com/productdetails.cfm?SKU=1360] ) is the pen name of Jozuf Hadley, a Hawai'ian poet who writes in Hawai'ian Pidgin.

His 1972 book, "Chalookyu Eensai," is believed to be the first book published in Hawai'ian Pidgin. [http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi?uri=/journals/contemporary_pacific/v016/16.1spahr.html] . He was born in Kauii [http://tinfishpress.com/hot_off_the_press.html] .