Kao Kalia Yang's father was a Hmong refugee who escaped after the Vietnam War. Through the tradition of song poetry, he found beauty in the world. Some of the best stories are right under your nose.

Award-wining Minnesota writer Kao Kalia Yang’s “The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father,” is the sixth title in Minnesota Center for the Book’s One Book/One Minnesota. The announcement was made Monday by ...

In addition to the musicians, guests at the performance will be Sai Thao and Jim Vue, whose daughter Ghia Vue drowned eight years ago at Lake Elmo Park Reserve. Ghia told Yang she wanted to be a ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The first Hmong story adapted for the operatic stage, St. Paul writer Kao Kalia ...

Kao Kalia Yang is the author of the novel "The Song Poet" and librettist for the Minnesota Opera adaptation. CATHY WURZER: It's been said that writing an opera is a composer's ultimate challenge. What ...

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When The Voice began on Monday (March 20), viewers saw 17-year-old contestant Mariah Kalia. She said she was dorky, annoying, and more. But when fans saw her in action, she was anything but. Kalia, ...

When Kao Kalia Yang was just a tiny girl, her father used to put her on his shoulders and walk around their neighborhood in the Ban Vinai refugee camp in Thailand, where she was born. As they walked, ...

2016-10-22T11:28:49-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/0f0/20161022122639002_hd.jpgKao Kalia Yang talked about her book The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father, in ...