Maria Luisa B. Aguilar - Cariño's Literary Works

Born in Baguio City, Philippines on September 3, 1961, Maria Luisa B. Aguilar-Cariño is a Filipina American poet, author of many award-winning collections, and the current Poet Laureate of Virginia. (2020–2022).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisa_Igloria

EDUCATION:

Catholic Church - attained private school in Elementary.

B.A. Humanities Cum Laude - major in Comparative Literature, minor in English, cognate in Philosophy), 1980 University of the Philippines Baguio. 

M.A. in Literature at Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines, 1988 [Robert Southwell Fellow]

Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing, University of Illinois at Chicago, July 1995 as Fulbright Fellow.

CAREER:

    Maria Luisa B. Aguilar - Cariño, a native of Baguio City,    Philippines, is the author of five chapbooks and sixteen full-length novels. She was the director of Old Dominion University's MFA Creative Writing Program from 2009 to 2015 in addition to being a tenured professor of English and creative writing.

    Ma. Luisa was the first Glasgow Visiting Writer in Residence at Washington & Lee University for the Spring Term of 2018. In 1996, she was a Visiting Humanities Scholar at the University of Hawaii at Manoa's Center for Philippine Studies. After a brief teaching stint at De La Salle University, she joined the Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center as Senior Associate for Poetry and Coordinator of Graduate Programs.She was on the culture and education committee of PINTIG, a Filipino-American theater and cultural organization, while she lived in Chicago.

    Ma. Luisa's appointment as the Commonwealth of Virginia's Poet Laureate was declared by the governor of Virginia in July 2020.

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    New England Review, The Common, Poetry, Crab Orchard Review, Orion Magazine, The Missouri Review, Indiana Review, Poetry East, Natural Bridge, Umbrella, Sweet, qarrtsiluni, poemeleon, Smartish Pace, Rattle, The North American Review, Bellingham Review, Shearsman (UK), PRISM International (Canada), Poetry Salzburg Review (Austria), The Asian Pacific American Journal, and TriQuarterly are just a few of the books and journals in which Luisa's work has been published or accepted. Her work appears in Language for a New Century, ed., Fire On Her Tongue (Two Sylvias Press, 2011), the first electronic anthology of women's poetry. Tina Chang, Ravi Shankar, and Nathalie Handal, Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-po Listserv], ed., and W.W. Norton, 2008. by Lesley Wheeler, Rosemary Starace, and Moira Richards (Red Hen Press, 2007). More recently, she co-edited the anthology Of Color: Poets' Ways of Making (New York: The Operating System, 2018) with Amanda Galvan Huynh. She also edited the book Not Home, But Here: Writing from the Filipino Diaspora (Anvil, 2003).

PERSONAL LIFE:

Husband: Ruben V. Igloria

Birthday: September 03, 1961

Age: 62 - 63

Children: Jennifer Patricia A. Carino, Julia Katrina A, Parlette-Carino, Josephine Anne A. Carino, and Gabriela Aurora Igloria

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AWARDS:

    Luisa A. Igloria, a highly decorated poet, was appointed the 20th Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia by Governor Ralph Northam in 2020. She is the fourth poet of color to receive this distinction. In 2021, she received 1 of 23 Poet Laureate Fellowships from the Academy of American Poets. Igloria has been an eleven-time recipient of the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, the Philippines' highest literary distinction. She became the first Filipina woman of letters in the Palanca Literary Hall of Fame in 1996. She has also received the 1988 Black Warrior Literary Award, Charles Goodnow Endowed Award for Creative Writing, Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, and George Kent Prize for Poetry.

    She has received numerous awards for her poetry, including the 2019 Crab Orchard Open Poetry Competition Prize for Maps for Migrants and Ghosts, the 2018 Center for the Book Arts Poetry Chapbook Prize, the 2015 Resurgence Prize for Ecopoetry, the 2014 May Swenson Poetry Prize, the 2009 Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, the 2007 49th Parallel Prize in Poetry, the 2007 James Hearst Poetry Prize, the 2006 National Writers Union Poetry Prize, the Stephen Dunn Award for Poetry, the first Sylvia Clare Brown Fellowship, the 2005 George Bogin Memorial Award for Poetry, the 2005 Richard Lemon Poetry Fellowship to the Napa Valley Writers Conference, the 2004 Fugue poetry contest First Prize, the 2003 Larry Levis Editors Prize for Poetry, the Dorset Prize for Poetry, a partial fellowship to the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, three Pushcart Prize nominations, and the 1998 George Kent Award for Poetry.

PUBLICATIONS AND BOOKS:

• Since November 20, 2010, Luisa has been writing (at least) a poem a day as part of her daily writing practice.
• other works are listed through her website and in various online publications.

BOOKS

• Blood Sacrifice (University of the Philippines Press, 1997); 1998 National Book Award for Poetry (Manila Critics Circle, Philippines)
• Cartography (Anvil, 1992); 1993 National Book Award for Poetry (Manila Critics Circle, Philippines)
• Caulbearer (Immigrant Series Prize winner, Black Lawrence Press; August 2024)Cordillera Tales (New Day, 1990); 1991 National Book Award (Manila Critics Circle, Philippines)
• Encanto (Anvil, 1993); 1994 National Book Award for Poetry (Manila Critics Circle, Philippines)
• In the Garden of the Three Islands (Moyer Bell/Asphodel, 1995)
• Juan Luna's Revolver; 2009 Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry
• Maps for Migrants and Ghosts (2019 Crab Orchard Poetry Open Competition Co-Winner, Southern Illinois University Press, 2020)
• Night Willow (Phoenicia Publishing, Montreal, 2014)
• Not Home, But Here: Writing from the Filipino Diaspora, as central editor (Anvil, 2003)
• Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser (2014 May Swenson Prize, Utah State University Press)
• Of Color: Poets' Ways of Making (anthology of craft essays by poets of color, co-edited with Amanda Galvan Huynh) (New York: The Operating System, 2018)
• Songs for the Beginning of the Millennium (De La Salle University Press, 1997); Finalist, 1998 National Book Award for Poetry (Manila Critics Circle, Philippines)
• The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis (Phoenicia Publishing, Montreal, 2018)
• The Saints of Streets (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2013)
• Trill and Mordent (WordTech Editions, fall 2005); Runner-up, 2004 Editions Prize
• Turnings: Writing on Women's Transformations, co-edited with Renee Olander (Friends of Women's Studies at Old Dominion University, March 2000)

CHAPBOOKS

• Bright as Mirrors Left in the Grass (Kudzu House Quarterly, spring 2014)
• Check & Balance (Moria Press/Locofo Chaps, 2017)
• Haori (Tea & Tattered Pages Press, April 2017)
• Puñeta: Politica; Pilipinx Poetry, vol. 3; ed. Luisa A. Igloria (Chicago: Locofo Chaps, Moria Press, 2017)
• What is Left of Wings, I Ask (2018 Center for the Book Arts Poetry Chapbook Prize, New York, 2018)

" Maria Luisa B. Aguilar -  Cariño's Highlights "

                                    

                               TOP 2 OF HER BEST QUOTES(2024 UPDATE)

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       -  “When I walk the streets I       want to call to the spirits that      are mine and know they will        love me not only for my scars.”

  — Luisa A. Igloria

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     -  “Inevitably, though, there will always be a significant part of the past which can neither be burnt nor banished to the soothing limbo of forgetfulness – myself. I was and still am that same ship which carried me to the new shore, the same vessel containing all the memories and dreams of the child in the brick house with the toy tea set. I am the shore I left behind as well as the home I return to every evening. The voyage cannot proceed without me.”

— Luisa A. Igloria

REFERENCES

 

               Top 2 Luisa A. Igloria Quotes (2024 update) - QuoteFancy. (n.d.). https://quotefancy.com/luisa-a-igloria-quotes?fbclid=IwAR2hcf0oiK88SCC9NlM4aW-AdgjN7UDR5NTJbNQMgVnf2zUlkR4ADA5oU_Y

           

              Virginia Libraries v52n2 - History and the Work of Memory: An Interview with Luisa A. Igloria. (n.d.-c). https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ojs/ejournals/VALib/v52_n2/gardner1.html?fbclid=IwAR2BeYnfN0tqdHY2TGN8UNwfMMfXf_-uobi1T_C5ynfWNClcwVwy_MyHVPk

 

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