Poet Luisa A. Igloria (website) is the author of Juan Luna’s Revolver (2009 Ernest Sandeen Prize, University of Notre Dame Press), Trill & Mordent (WordTech Editions, 2005) and 8 other books.
When she isn’t writing, reading, or teaching, she cooks with her family, hand-binds books, listens to tango music, and keeps her radar tuned for cool lizard sightings.
Flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism. — Ann Zwinger
What’s up
Principal blog author Dave Bonta has a new chapbook of love poems, first published at Via Negativa and now available free or at cost in multiple formats: Twelve Simple Songs. ... Guest author Luisa A. Igloria has been writing and posting a poem a day since November 2010, often in response to Dave's posts at The Morning Porch. ... Dave also has a poem-a-day project now, constructing erasure poems from the 17th-century diary entries of Samuel Pepys. Here's what that's all about.
Oh, I love this one.