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Poet at the end of her chicken era Mele | 2025 | Trio House Press https://kalehuakim.com/

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Kale Kim @kalekim.bsky.social · 14d

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Emerging BIWOC Poet Spotlight: Kalehua Kim - Perugia Press

This monthly series features poems by women of color in the early stages of their publishing careers. It is our […]

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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · Jun 22

Mark your calendar and subscribe to our YouTube channel! On July 2, @rhonierika.bsky.social,
Anthony Borruso, @kalekim.bsky.social, @martheaus.bsky.social, & @susanap.bsky.social read from their newly released collections!

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Photos of authors and date/time of event —July 2, 7 pm Central

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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · May 5

Read this wonderful interview with @kalekim.bsky.social by @cynthiavia.bsky.social about music, language, tradition, and what inspired Mele (July 2025).

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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · Apr 15

Read a poem, Impression, that appears in the forthcoming collection Mele by @kalekim.bsky.social in the Cortland Review - and listen to her read it aloud, too!

Every morning my mother painted on red lips:
Wine with Everything, Fire and Ice, Really Red lips….

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Kalehua Kim The Cortland Review - Issue 93

The Cortland Review - Issue 93

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Kale Kim @kalekim.bsky.social · Apr 9

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · Apr 9

Kalehua Kim ♥️

from MELE (Trio House Press)

Day 9 - National Poetry Month

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Memory Sonnet

Although I have come back for the summer, my father's house has never been my home.
His silence, humid and thick as thunder, hangs heavier than the sun-sapped mangoes outside my window, their dense, orange flesh sweating sugar, needing conversation. When I ask him what he remembers best about meeting my mother, his smile beams, revealing more than one of his dimples. He says, "We met at da bus company." Something so benign, something so simple, I'm surprised when he goes on suddenly, “She used to sing, yah? Ho, da voice she got, in da house, in my hed, an in my haht."

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Trio House Press @triohousepress.org · Apr 8

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Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social · Feb 13

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Cari Luna @cariluna.bsky.social · Jan 24

Write fan letters to your friends.

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Anne Lamott @annelamott.bsky.social · Jan 7

How to write: Stop not writing. Keep your butt in the chair. Write really bad small sections of the whole—passages, moments, episodes, memories—til you have an incredibly shitty 1st draft. Then take out the boring parts, the lies and pretensions. Then write a better 2nd draft.

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Kale Kim @kalekim.bsky.social · Jan 8

Aww, thanks so much, @samchagollan.bsky.social! <3<3<3

Kale Kim @kalekim.bsky.social · Nov 16

Want to channel this kind of energy for the next four years.
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Video: Māori Haka Protest Erupts in New Zealand Parliament

Member of Parliament Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke led the ceremonial performance of Māori culture, tearing up a controversial bill as other lawmakers joined her in protest.