Tag: poetry
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Minnesota Humanities Center Launches Two Youth Poetry Programs
Tags: arts, celebrate, celebration, communities, community, council, culture, event, Featured, festival, future, generation, heritage, history, humanities, identity, information, leadership, Legacy Amendment, life, local, march, media, Minnesota, nation, national, non-profit, organization, original, past, people, performances, poetry, poets, president, service, short, society, St. Paul, state, story, summer, support, United States, Voices Forward, work, youthFebruary 27, 2026—ST. PAUL, MN— The Minnesota Humanities Center (MHC) announces the launch of two programs that highlight and uplift the work of youth poets in Minnesota: Voices Forward and the Minnesota Youth Poet Laureate. Applications for both programs are open until March 16 and can be found on MHC’s website (Voices Forward, Minnesota Youth Poet Laureate). CEO Kevin Lindsey stated that “MHC is…
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Pao Houa Her centers Hmong song poetry in Bockley Gallery installation
Each of the channels feature a singing form from Hmong culture called kwv txhiaj, played intermittently and sourced from different time periods (some of the videos are several decades old, and there’s … Full story: https://www.minnpost.com/artscape/2024/06/pao-houa-her-centers-hmong-song-poetry-in-bockley-gallery-installation/
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CLC to host Hmong poet Mai Der Vang
The visiting poet program of Central Lakes College presents Hmong poet Mai Der Vang for a poetry reading at noon on February 21 in the Chalberg Theatre, … Full story: https://www.hometownsource.com/morrison_county_record/news/arts/clc-to-host-hmong-poet-mai-der-vang/article_20a908aa-c5d2-11ee-adf2-537f7a421745.html
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Debra Kue draws on family heritage to represent Hmong culture in literature
Doctoral candidate in English, Debra Kue uses poetry to explore her identity as a Hmong American and hopes to educate others on her culture. Read Full Article
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St. Paul’s Sidewalk Poetry Contest returns to stamp new poems beneath our feet
Poetry submissions should focus on this year’s contest theme, “network of mutuality,” a phrase from Martin Luther King Jr.’s writings. Read Full Article
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Literary pick of the week: Making Minnesota series launches with ‘We Are Meant to Rise’
We Are Meant to Rise” is an anthology of voices of indigenous people and people of color bearing witness in poetry and essays to the trauma we shared in 2021. Read Full Article
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Seattle Center Festál: Hmong New Year Celebration Highlights The Harvest, Honors Ancestors And Anticipates New Blessings
Seattle Hmong New Year 2021, 6:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 6, gives thanks at the end of the harvest season and honors ancestors with a celebration of traditional music, dance, poetry, food and fashion. Read Full Article
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Fall 2021 Announcements: Poetry
With a keen eye on the paradoxes of human experience, these titles find new ways to celebrate resilience and the innumerable joys of the everyday. Read Full Article
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Layers of meaning: Art and poetry speak to resilience of women
A new art installation in Bentonville’s Train Station Park offers layers of meaning along with its layers of magenta ruffles. Read Full Article
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Ed Lotterman: One can be thankful for much even amid pessimism
(Portions of the poem, in English, can be read at the Poetry Foundation website.) Most of us in the U.S. can be thankful we never faced such horrors, although Hmong and Somali refugees settled among … Read Full Article
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Real World Economics: One can be thankful for much even amid pessimism
He decides to live, even if in pain and need. (Portions of the poem, in English, can be read at the Poetry Foundation website.) Most of us in the U.S. can be thankful we never faced such horrors, … Read Full Article
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Reflecting diversity of St. Paul, sidewalk poetry winners include new languages
This year’s poetry winners include submissions in Spanish, Hmong and Dakota languages. For more than a decade, St. Paul public works crews have stamped poems into hundreds of new sidewalk panels. Read Full Article
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St. Paul Places Poetry at Residents’ Feet
“We invited people to submit in four non-English languages,” Sheehy says. In addition to Spanish, Hmong, and Somali (the three groups that compose the highest number of non-English speakers in the … Read Full Article