Results for "Igloria, Luisa A."

In the U.S., the congressionally mandated Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) report is currently in development, and groups of scientists from all over the country and Caribbean are overseeing the synthesis of published research for regional and topic-specific chapters. Dear Human at the Edge ... Read More about Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States

How do poets of color come to know what they do about their art and practice? How do they learn from and teach others? For poets of color, what does the relationship of "what one knows" have, with conditions extending but not limited to publishing, mentorship and pedagogy, comradeship and collegiali... Read More about Of Color: Poets' Ways of Making: An Anthology of Essays on Transformative Poetics

Language as key and map to places, people, and histories lost   For immigrants and migrants, the wounds of colonization, displacement, and exile remain unhealed. Crossing oceans and generations, from her childhood home in Baguio City, the Philippines, to her immigrant home in Virginia, poet Lui... Read More about Maps for Migrants and Ghosts (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry)

Luisa A. Igloria's "Buddha poems," written in early 2016, first appeared online at Via Negativa, where she has posted a new poem every day since November 2010.The author says these poems began from the premise that "if the Buddha in me can greet the Buddha in you," then the aspiration to transcenden... Read More about The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-life Crisis

“When Luisa Igloria cites Epictetus—‘as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place’—she introduces the crowded and contradictory world her poems portray: a realm of transience, yes, where the vulnerable come to harm and everything disappears, but also a scene o... Read More about Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser (Swenson Poetry Award)

In this shining and unsparing new collection, celebrated poet Luisa A. Igloria draws from her own childhood memories, relationships, and keen sensory awareness to create a dreamlike series of pictures in which we, too, may see our growth through the experiences of joys, loss, and the poignant wisdom... Read More about Night Willow: Poems