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Luisa Igloria

American poet

Luisa A. Igloria (born ) is a Filipina American poet[1] and author of various award-winning collections, and is the most recent Poet Laureate of Virginia ().[2]

Early life and education

Luisa Aguilar Igloria was born in in Baguio, Philippines.

She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in humanities, graduating cum laude with a major in comparative literature, a minor in English, and a cognate in philosophy from the University of the Philippines Baguio in She then obtained her Master of Arts in literature at Ateneo de Manila University in , where she was a Robert Southwell Fellow.

Luisa igloria transparencies in art Luisa A. Igloria is one of two winners of the Crab Orchard Poetry Open Contest for her manuscript Maps For Migrants and Ghosts (due out from Southern Illinois University Press in ); and the winner of the Center for the Book Arts Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Prize selected by former US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey. She also won.

Igloria completed her Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing at University of Illinois at Chicago in July , where she was a Fulbright Fellow.

Career

Originally from Baguio City, Philippines, Luisa A. Igloria is the author of 16 full-length books and 5 chapbooks. She is a tenured professor of creative writing and English, and from was director of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Old Dominion University.

In the Spring Term , Igloria was the inaugural Glasgow Visiting Writer in Residence at Washington & Lee University.

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Transparencies. I will never marry, never have children, declares the youngest daughter. holding the crotch of cotton underpants under the cool of running water. This is something they all say soon after the first blood comes. She doesn’t have to wear chemises or lie on an old roll of bedding in the corner. but she divines how light can pass.

She was a visiting humanities scholar in at the Center for Philippine Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She taught briefly at De La Salle University where she became the graduate programs coordinator and senior associate for poetry at the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center at De La Salle University. While in Chicago, she was an active member of PINTIG, a Filipino-American cultural and theatre group, where she served in PINTIG's cultural and education committee.

Igloria's work has appeared or been accepted in numerous anthologies and journals including New England Review, The Common, Poetry, Crab Orchard Review, Orion Magazine, The Missouri Review, Indiana Review, Poetry East, Natural Bridge, Umbrella, Sweet, qarrtsiluni, poemeleon, Smartish Pace, Rattle, The North American Review, Bellingham Review, Shearsman (UK), PRISM International (Canada), Poetry Salzburg Review (Austria), The Asian Pacific American Journal, and TriQuarterly, among others.

Luisa igloria transparencies Dave Bonta founded the site in and Luisa A. Igloria joined in Guest authors contribute as well. Dave writes daily erasure poems to discover the poetry hidden in the Diary of Samuel Pepys. Luisa has been writing and posting a poem a day since November , often in response to Dave’s entries at The Morning Porch.

Her work is included in the very first electronic anthology of Women's Poetry Fire On Her Tongue (Two Sylvias Press, ), Language for a New Century, ed. Tina Chang, Ravi Shankar, and Nathalie Handal (W.W. Norton, ), and Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-po Listserv], ed. by Moira Richards, Rosemary Starace, and Lesley Wheeler (Red Hen Press, ).

She edited the anthology Not Home, But Here: Writing from the Filipino Diaspora (Anvil, ); and more recently (with Amanda Galvan Huynh), the anthology Of Color: Poets' Ways of Making (New York: The Operating System, ).

In July, , the governor of Virginia announced that Igloria had been appointed as the poet laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia.[2]

Personal life

Luisa Aguilar Igloria is married to Ruben V.

Igloria, who is from Chicago. They have four daughters: Jennifer Patricia A. Cariño, Julia Katrina A. Parlette-Cariño, Josephine Anne A. Cariño, and Gabriela Aurora Igloria.

Luisa igloria poems In language at once keen and lulling, muscular and sumptuous, Igloria gives us a book of losses as well as recuperations.” — Claire Wahmanholm, author of Wilder “Restlessly transiting between the past and the present, homeland and diasporic home, consciousness and conscience, Luisa Igloria is our poet of the lyric cusp.

Awards

In July , then Governor Ralph Northam appointed Luisa A. Igloria the 20th Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia (–22); she is the 4th poet of color to receive this distinction. The Academy of American Poets awarded her 1 of 23 Poet Laureate Fellowships in She is highly decorated for her expanse of work: Luisa is an eleven-time (five First Prizes, plus six lesser prizes) recipient of the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature in three genres (poetry, nonfiction, and short fiction); the Palanca award is the Philippines' highest literary distinction.

In she became the first Filipina woman of letters installed in the Palanca Literary Hall of Fame. She is also the recipient of the Black Warrior Literary Award from the literary magazine of the University of Alabama; the Charles Goodnow Endowed Award for Creative Writing from the Chicago Bar Association in and ; the Illinois Arts Council Literary Award and the George Kent Prize for Poetry.

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    • Her awards include the Crab Orchard Open Poetry Competition Prize for Maps for Migrants and Ghosts, Southern Illinois University Press, ; the Center for the Book Arts (New York) Poetry Chapbook Prize for What is Left of Wings, I Ask; the (inaugural) Resurgence Prize for Ecopoetry] (UK); the May Swenson Poetry Prize from Utah State University Press for Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser; the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry from the University of Notre Dame Press; the 49th Parallel Prize in Poetry from Bellingham Review; the James Hearst Poetry Prize (selected by former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser); the National Writers Union Poetry Prize (selected by Adrienne Rich); the Stephen Dunn Award for Poetry; the first Sylvia Clare Brown Fellowship, Ragdale Foundation (Summer Residency); Finalist for the George Bogin Memorial Award for Poetry (Poetry Society of America; selected by Joy Harjo); the Richard Lemon Poetry Fellowship to the Napa Valley Writers Conference; First Prize in the Fugue poetry contest (selected by Ellen Bryant Voigt); Finalist in the Larry Levis Editors Prize for Poetry from The Missouri Review; Finalist in the Dorset Prize for Poetry (Tupelo Press); a partial fellowship to the Summer Literary Seminars in St.

    Petersburg; three Pushcart Prize nominations and the George Kent Award for Poetry.

    Books and publications

    • Since November 20, , Luisa has been writing (at least) a poem a day as part of her daily writing practice.
    • Other works are listed through her website and in various online publications.

    Books:

    • Cordillera Tales (New Day, ); National Book Award (Manila Critics Circle, Philippines)
    • Cartography (Anvil, ); National Book Award for Poetry (Manila Critics Circle, Philippines)
    • Encanto (Anvil, ); National Book Award for Poetry (Manila Critics Circle, Philippines)
    • In the Garden of the Three Islands (Moyer Bell/Asphodel, )
    • Blood Sacrifice (University of the Philippines Press, ); National Book Award for Poetry (Manila Critics Circle, Philippines)
    • Songs for the Beginning of the Millennium (De La Salle University Press, ); Finalist, National Book Award for Poetry (Manila Critics Circle, Philippines)
    • Turnings: Writing on Women's Transformations, co-edited with Renee Olander (Friends of Women's Studies at Old Dominion University, March )
    • Not Home, But Here: Writing from the Filipino Diaspora, as central editor (Anvil, )
    • Trill and Mordent (WordTech Editions, fall ); Runner-up, Editions Prize
    • Juan Luna's Revolver; Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry
    • The Saints of Streets (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, )
    • Night Willow (Phoenicia Publishing, Montreal, )
    • Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser ( May Swenson Prize, Utah State University Press)
    • Of Color: Poets' Ways of Making (anthology of craft essays by poets of color, co-edited with Amanda Galvan Huynh) (New York: The Operating System, )
    • The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis (Phoenicia Publishing, Montreal, )
    • Maps for Migrants and Ghosts ( Crab Orchard Poetry Open Competition Co-Winner, Southern Illinois University Press, )
    • Caulbearer (Immigrant Series Prize winner, Black Lawrence Press; August )

    Chapbooks:

    • Bright as Mirrors Left in the Grass (Kudzu House Quarterly, spring )
    • Check & Balance (Moria Press/Locofo Chaps, )
    • Haori (Tea & Tattered Pages Press, April )
    • Puñeta: Political Pilipinx Poetry, vol.

      3; ed. Luisa A. Igloria (Chicago: Locofo Chaps, Moria Press, )

    • What is Left of Wings, I Ask ( Center for the Book Arts Poetry Chapbook Prize, New York, )

    References

    Bibliography

    • Stephen Hong Sohn, "Los Indios Bravos: The Filipino/American Lyric and the Cosmopoetics of Comparative Indigeneity," in American Quarterly, Volume 62, Number 3, September , pp.&#;–

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