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.
The world is blue at its edges and in its depths. This blue is the light that got lost. — Rebecca Solnit
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.
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