by Kim Benjamin | Jan 24, 2019 | Arts, Home Page Slider
States Of America By Riley Jeffs Created and Produced by Brad Barber (co-director/producer of the award-winning feature documentary Peace Officer), States of America is a new IFP supported documentary shorts series featuring one person in each of the 50 United...
by Kim Benjamin | Jan 10, 2019 | Arts, Home Page Slider
Nkauj Yiv-A Novella, Chapter 4 By Kerry Xiong Soapsuds crawled up Nkauj Yiv’s forearms as she scrubbed the ash white Corelle dinner plate in a circular motion. Her scouring toughened, clockwise, counter clockwise, clockwise, scraping the food crud off the crevices...
by Kim Benjamin | Jan 4, 2019 | Arts, Home Page Slider
Nkauj Yiv – A Novella Chapter 3 By Kerry Xiong Nkauj Yiv returned home that afternoon and immediately slipped out of her gown and got dressed before starting on dinner. Her father, stepmother, and stepsisters would be home any hour and she wouldn’t disappoint...
by Kim Benjamin | Dec 11, 2018 | Arts, Home Page Slider
Nkauj Yiv – A Novella – Chapter 2 By Kerry Xiong Nkauj Yiv was struck in astonishment. How had this man known her name? She froze in place. “Nkauj Yiv,” he said again. Through all the white noise that surrounded them, she couldn’t tear her gaze away from...
by Kim Benjamin | Dec 11, 2018 | Arts, Home Page Slider
Artist Saymoukda Vongsay Centers Lao History And Perspectives By Aarohi Narain In October this year, coming up on the 45th anniversary of Lao people arriving in Minnesota, Vongsay published her first book. Entitled When Everything Was Everything, it recalls...
by Kim Benjamin | Nov 27, 2018 | Arts, Home Page Slider
Nkauj Yiv – A Novella By Kerry Xiong Chapter 1 For the longest time in all of her eighteen years, Nkauj Yiv had known that she was destined to go to the RiverCentre New Year. It was the one place in the entire world that Hmong-Americans from all over America...
