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		<title>Kealoha named Hawai‘i Poet Laureate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 06:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HONOLULU ‹ Governor Neil Abercrombie on Thursday proclaimed award-winning slam poet Steven Kealohapau‘ole Hong-Ming Wong, better known by his pen name, “Kealoha” as Hawai‘i Poet Laureate. Moments after being named the state’s official poet, Kealoha was asked by Governor Abercrombie to complete his first ceremonial duty under the new title by performing at the dedication [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common Good Books opens in new location</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saint Paul, Minn. — Garrison Keillor’s dream of opening a bookstore goes back to his childhood days in the stacks of the Anoka public library — a dream he finally realized in 2006. Now, after six years in a lower-level space in St. Paul’s Cathedral Hill neighborhood, his Common Good Books has new digs — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thi-Minh Tran at Augsburg Park Library</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From left, Librarian Phuoc Thi-Minh Tran;  author Nguyen Thanh Hiep;  artist/author Ha Kieu Anh; artist Anh Ha; author/poet Cung Tram Tuong; and  Trong Nguyen. RICHFIELD, Minn. — The story of Vietnamese refugee Trong Nguyen’s journey, as told in collaboration with author Connie Fortin in the biography “Born Into War,” spoke at the Augsburg Park Library in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bao Phi joins APA Writers at National Portrait Gallery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (April 6, 2012) — An unprecedented convergence of Asian American literature and visual art will present seven writers reading and discussing their work, commissioned in response to ‘Portraiture Now: Asian American Portraits of Encounter,’ the first major exhibit of Asian American visual artists at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium. Writers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life, Beautiful Forever</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 05:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Book Review of Katherine Boo&#8217;s “Behind the Beautiful Forevers&#8221; By RACHEL PAULOSE AAP Guest Columnist Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Katherine Boo’s first book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, a nonfictional depiction of slum dwellers in Bombay (the city now known as Mumbai), captures the stories of the working poor struggling to create order in a world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anne Fadiman to speak at area events</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 07:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This May, Anne Fadiman’s The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down will be re-released as an FSG Classic book, with the author coming to the Twin Cities for two events at St. Paul’s Highland Park Library on May 7, and Minneapolis Central Library on May 8. Fadiman&#8217;s book highlighted the need for culturally competent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pushing the Pen: May Lee-Yang</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May Lee-Yang By SAYMOUKDA VONGSAY AAP staff writer Hmong American, May Lee-Yang, has been a household name in the Minnesotan arts community for over a decade, known as a playwright, poet, prose writer, and performance artist. Lee-Yang was born in Ban Vinai, a refugee camp in Thailand following the Secret War in Laos. Nine months [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The eleventh annual Bob and Kim Griffin Building U.S.-China Bridges Lecture presents Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother: Increasing Mutual Understanding Between U.S. and China from author Amy Chua, a Professor at Yale Law School and author of best seller “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” on Friday, February 10, 2012, 4:30 p.m. Lecture and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That Picture Stinks! Secrets To Taking Better Pictures</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It used to be that the art of picture taking was something only hobbyists and professionals worried about, but today most cell phones and smartphones have built-in cameras that border on the quality of the top cameras of only a few years ago. So, basically, everyone has gotten into the act. Judy Holmes and Greg [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The eleventh annual Bob and Kim Griffin Building U.S.-China Bridges Lecture presents Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother: Increasing Mutual Understanding Between U.S. and China from author Amy Chua, a Professor at Yale Law School and author of best seller “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” on Friday, February 10, 2012, 4:30 p.m. Lecture and [...]]]></description>
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