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with skewers of chicken classified
by parts: livers, gizzards, wings,
breast, and isol (bishop's nose
or chicken butt)— all marinated in
coconut vinegar, lime, and annatto
oil. She is a Louis I. Jaffe Professor and University Professor of English and Creative Writing, and member of the core faculty of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Old Dominion University, which she directed from 2009-2015.
In April 2021, the Writers Union of the Philippines (UMPIL) conferred on her the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas lifetime achievement award in the English poetry category. Bronze
flames to shishkebab them in neon,
tattooing the brave song of a thousand
tiny hara-kiris on puckered flesh.
When I glance at rooftops, conspiring
gargoyles glare and stone angels lift
their heavy wings, webbed from the base
and held together by marble joints, not
some homemade paste of honey
and beeswax.
And that socket of liquid silver
in the sky, that open eye— how easily
it might pick me out, stubborn traveler
on the open plain, clutching a sheaf of paper,
cunning fetishes dangling from each
foolish ear; provisions I will loyally
rise to defend as beautiful and not
entirely useless, like lightning rods.
Nevertheless, the heart drums a fervent
prayer for salvation: my soul, then,
only so much chaff, notwithstanding;
any second now, waiting to go up
in a puff of smoke.
Luisa A.
Igloriais one of two winners of the 2019 Crab Orchard Poetry Open Contest for her manuscript Maps For Migrants and Ghosts (due out from Southern Illinois University Press in 2020); and the winner of the 2018 Center for the Book Arts Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Prize selected by former US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey.
My favorite is the latter, for
the enticement to eat with the hands,
dip the sizzled flesh into finger
bowls of garlic-laced vinegar. Fat,
that unctuous texture in the mouth.
In the '50s, poultry industries
began to dump turkey tails in Pacific
markets. Our hearts and bellies filled.
Our faces shone around the table.
Luisa A. Igloria, Ph.D.
During her term as 20th Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia (2020-22), Emerita, the Academy of American Poets awarded Luisa A. Igloria one of twenty-three Poet Laureate Fellowships in 2021, to support a program of public poetry projects. These are parts that aren't
usually served at squeamish dinner
tables.
Luisa served as the inaugural Glasgow Visiting Writer in Residence at Washington and Lee University in 2018. www.luisaigloria.com
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Igloria at Solace in a Book
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Luisa A. Igloria is the recipient of the Immigrant Writing Series Prize from Black Lawrence Press for Caulbearer (2024) and was one of 2 Co-Winners of the 2019 Crab Orchard Poetry Prize for Maps for Migrants and Ghosts (Southern Illinois University Press, fall 2020).
In 2015, she was the inaugural winner of the Resurgence Prize (UK), the world's first major award for ecopoetry, selected by former UK Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion, Alice Oswald, and Jo Shapcott. Her poems are widely published or appearing in national and international anthologies, and print and online literary journals including Orion, Shenandoah, Indiana Review, Crab Orchard Review, Diode, Missouri Review, Rattle, Poetry East, Your Impossible Voice, Poetry, Shanghai Literary Review, Cha, Hotel Amerika, Spoon River Poetry Review, and others.
Full length authored works include The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis (Phoenicia Publishing, Montreal, 2018), Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser (selected by Mark Doty for the 2014 May Swenson Prize, Utah State University Press), Night Willow (Phoenicia Publishing, Montreal, 2014), The Saints of Streets (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2013), and Juan Luna’s Revolver (2009 Ernest Sandeen Prize, University of Notre Dame Press).
Luisa teaches in the core faculty of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Old Dominion University, which she directed from 2009-2015. Other works include The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis (Phoenicia Publishing, Montreal, 2018), Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser (2014 May Swenson Prize, Utah State University Press), and 12 other books.
She is lead editor, along with co-editors Aileen Cassinetto and Jeremy S. Hoffman, of Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States (Paloma Press, September 2023). Their kitchen knives
sang. Former US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey selected her chapbook What is Left of Wings, I Ask as the 2018 recipient of the Center for the Book Arts Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Prize.
Luisa received the 2023 Immigrant Writing Series Prize from Black Lawrence Press for Caulbearer (2024); and is one of 2 Co-Winners of the 2019 Crab Orchard Poetry Prize for Maps for Migrants and Ghosts (Southern Illinois University Press, fall 2020). Former US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey selected her chapbook What is Left of Wings, I Ask as the 2018 recipient of the Center for the Book Arts Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Prize.