Luisa A. Igloria

Born: 3 September 1961

Luisa A. Igloria is the author of Caulbearer (Immigrant Writing Series Prize, Black Lawrence Press, 2024), Maps for Migrants and Ghosts (Co-Winner, 2019 Crab Orchard Open Poetry Prize), The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis (2018), 12 other books, and 4 chapbooks. 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 U.S. (Paloma Press, 2023). Originally from Baguio City, she makes her home in Norfolk VA. Luisa is the 20th Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia (2020-22), Emerita. (Source)

Poems by Luisa A. Igloria

San Maló by Luisa A. Igloria

July 9, 2025

“Never mind / that the bruise from such a severance / might not heal.” — Luisa A. Igloria

Solar by Luisa A. Igloria

June 29, 2023

"I worry I can no longer pretend / enough to get through another / year of pretending..." — Luisa A. Igloria

Poems curated by Luisa A. Igloria

[God gave a Loaf to every Bird —] by Emily Dickinson

October 2, 2025

“God gave a Loaf to every Bird— / But just a Crumb— to Me— / I dare not / eat it—” — Emily Dickinson