Poet Lore and The Writer’s Center present a FREE virtual chat about the craft of poetry! We’re joined by Luisa A. Igloria and Christina Pugh for an enlightening discussion about their latest books.
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We encourage you to order a copy of our guests’ books from your local, independent bookseller or online:
- Caulbearer by Luisa A. Igloria »
- The Right Hand by Christina Pugh »
- Ghosts and the Overplus: Reading Poetry in the Twenty-First Century by Christina Pugh »
Originally from Baguio City, Luisa A. Igloria is the author of Maps for Migrants and Ghosts (Co-Winner, 2019 Crab Orchard Open Poetry Prize, Southern Illinois University Press, 2020), The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis (Phoenicia Publishing, Montreal, 2018), 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). In 2015, she was the inaugural recipient of the Resurgence Poetry Prize (UK), the world’s first major award for ecopoetry, selected by a panel headed by former UK Poet Laureate Andrew Motion. She is a Louis I. Jaffe Professor of English and Creative Writing in the MFA Program at Old Dominion University, and also leads workshops for and is a member of the board of The Muse Writers Center in Norfolk. During her appointed term as 20th Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia (2020-22), Emerita, the Academy of American Poets awarded her one of twenty-three Poet Laureate Fellowships in 2021, to support a program of public poetry projects.
Christina Pugh is the author of six books of poems, including The Right Hand (Tupelo Press, 2024) and Stardust Media (University of Massachusetts Press, 2020), winner of the 2019 Juniper Prize in Poetry. This year she has also published a book of essays on poetry titled Ghosts and the Overplus: Reading Poetry in the Twenty-First Century (University of Michigan Press “Poets on Poetry” series, 2024). Her poems have appeared widely, including in The Atlantic, Poetry, Yale Review, Ploughshares, Colorado Review, and other publications. A former Guggenheim fellow in poetry, she has also received awards and fellowships from the Poetry Society of America, Poetry magazine, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council, and others. She is a professor in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she was recently named Distinguished Scholar of the Year in Humanities, Arts, Design, and Architecture. Her website is christinapughpoet.com.
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