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Kao Kalia Yang

Day: November 13, 2019

Kalia to receive a Sally Award for Social Impact by the Minnesota Ordway’s Center for the Performing Arts

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Electric Literature’s Jimin Han interviews Shannon Gibney and Kalia on What God is Honored Here?

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Art Director at Lerner Books, Emily Harris, shares art notes on the cover of A Map Into the World

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Grief Out Loud’s Jana DeCristofaro discuss the process of grieving with Kalia and co-editor of What God is Honored Here? Shannon Gibney

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Contributors Sarah Agaton Howes and Marcie Rendon for What God is Honored Here? is featured in Minnesota Women’s Press

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Reading Group Choices has selected What God is Honored Here? as a featured book (includes discussion questions for the book)

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Review of What God is Honored Here? in the Minnesota Spokeman Recorder

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Review of A Map Into the World and What God is Honored Here? in the Morrison County Record

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Bee Yang

Hmong song poetry | kwv txhiaj hmoob

Thaum Hluas Txog Hnub Laus: When the Days of Youth are Gone (Bee Yang, 2014)

This is an album of Hmong song poetry, kwv txhiaj hmoob, composed and sung by Bee Yang, Kao Kalia Yang’s father. The album notes and English translation of one of the songs are by Kao Kalia Yang.

Kwv txhiaj is, in the words of Ralph Ellison on the American Blues, “an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one’s aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-cosmic lyricism. As a form, the blues [and kwv txhiaj] is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.”

NOTE:  The duration of the songs do not reflect the actual song length.  Please consider ordering the CD for the full songs.  Thank you.

*This CD is available for purchase for $15.  Click below to order:

Ntsuag Txij Ntsuag Nkawm
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Txiav Kev Nkauj Nraug
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Kev Nkauj Nraug Thaum Hluas
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Nco Thaum Ua Nkauj Nraug
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Nus Muag Sib Ncaim
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Ua Nyab Kev Deb
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Txij Nkawm Sib Hlub
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