Literary Pick of the week: Another honor for author Kao Kalia Yang
April 18, 2022
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Red Wing’s Anderson Center names Kao Kalia Yang as award recipient for contributions to the cultural and literary life of Minnesota: https://www.southernminn.com/the_kenyon_leader/community/article_8b59fe6a-a087-11ec-b3cf-bbf1bd3c4ba6.html#:~:text=14%20min%20ago-,Kalia%20Yang,writer%2C%20teacher%20and%20public%20speaker.
From the Tops of the Trees is one of four finalists for the Bank Street College of Education’s Irma Black Award: https://www.bankstreet.edu/library/center-for-childrens-literature/irma-black-award/
The Song Poet premiers with MN Opera in the 2022-2023 Season. Get more information and tickets here: https://mnopera.org/season/2022-2023/
I write you with bits of news:-I submitted my fifth letter to a refugee child for Al Jazeera. This final letter in the short series
https://www.tpt.org/facing-race-awards/
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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: