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Karlo Mila

Kaituhi Tūtahi | Contributing Writer

Dr Karlo Mila is a New Zealand-born poet of Tongan and Pākehā descent with ancestral connections to Samoa. She is currently Programme Director of Mana Moana, Leadership New Zealand. Karlo received an MNZM in 2019 for services to the Pacific community and as a poet, received a Creative New Zealand Contemporary Pacific Artist Award in 2016, and was a Creative New Zealand Fulbright Pacific Writer’s Residency in Hawaii in 2015.

Everything By: Karlo Mila

Pacific Arts Legacy Project17.12.20

Speaking Unafraid into the Silence

After finding the words of Alice Walker in a library, Karlo Mila found a way of being in the world as a powerful woman of colour. Karlo shares her journey writing poems that carry all that is unspoken.

By Karlo Mila
Read Time: 16 mins

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