M. Anne Kala’i

Emancipation by M. Anne Kala`i I. Mother didn’t teach me how to garden. She taught me to pack up a house after the water turned off, then the lights.

Mahalo nui to the Hawai’i Pacific Review for publishing a poem so close to my heart, “Emancipation”.🫀 hawaiipacificreview.org/2025/07/07/e...

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In California's largest landback deal, the Yurok Tribe reclaims sacred land around Klamath River More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in northern California,have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history.

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Searching for Iraq In the Landscapes of Southern England | Atmos In an excerpt from her debut book, Babylon, Albion, Dalia Al-Dujaili writes of homeland as a feeling preserved through memory and mythology.

"Our rituals of 'return' are constantly recreating the homeland. The homeland can be understood not as a geographical location, but as a feeling we carry within us." @atmosmag.bsky.social

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Crónicas: Fragments of (a) literary convention Following AWP 2025

Crónicas: Soundbites from #AWP2025 open.substack.com/pub/mkalaiwr...

New Sunday post honoring a grandmother with whom I wish I had more time, and the ancestors keeping her company: open.substack.com/pub/mkalaiwr...

#KanakaMaoli #Diaspora

Thank you to the firefighters from our city and so many counties, states, and countries who have fought to save Los Angeles. None of us are any match for the kind of winds we saw this week. open.substack.com/pub/mkalaiwr...

California returning 2,800 acres of ancestral land to Shasta Indian nation - by Sergio Robles - June 19, 2024

The Indigenous Shasta Nation won back 2800 acres of their land back, the largest in California history! And, California is paying for it! ¹/

For Black Archaeologists, the Atlantic Ocean is an Ancestral Graveyard | Atmos For Black maritime archeologists the Atlantic Ocean presents an opportunity to excavate ancestral memory and pave future possibilities.

" 'As one of the very few Black archaeologists in the world—especially those of us who dive and study the Black Atlantic—I can’t think of a single one of us who doesn’t speak about how deeply this work is connected to our own ancestral practices.' "

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New post chronicling an enduring family story: open.substack.com/pub/mkalaiwr...

New Sunday piece with a prompt, if you’re feeling generative and interested in playing with genre: mkalaiwrites.substack.com/p/cronicas-o...

New crónica on whatever it is you need to finish: a draft, a poem, a sentence. mkalaiwrites.substack.com/p/cronicas-o...

I'm starting a new weekly writing practice inspired by #ClariceLispector. I wasn't familiar with crónicas before reading her, but I've fallen in love with this Latin American medium. 📚

✨ Find the inaugural post here: mkalaiwrites.substack.com/p/cronicas

#Booksky #cronicas

Thanks to the Cheshire Novel Prize for short listing my manuscript for their competition this year. 📚 She is a labor of love, a work in progress, a big voice that makes me proud to be her mother. And congratulations to the winner! So much talent in this group. More to come. ✨