Four Poems by Luisa Igloria That Appeared in The Missouri Review

These four poems by Luisa Igloria appeared in The Missouri Review: Editors' Prize Issue (Volume XXVII, Number 1, 2004). The Missouri Review is a literary journal published by the College of Arts & Science of the University of Missouri-Columbia.

The short bio of Igloria that accompanied her published poems in the journal: "Luisa Igloria is a poet, fiction writer and essayist who has published five books under the name Maria Luisa Aguilar Carino. She is the editor of the new anthology Not Home, but Here: Writing from the Filipino Diaspora (Anvil, 2003). Luisa's work has appeared in numerous national and international journals."

The poems:
1. Field Planted to Winter Grass
2. The Return
3. Trill and Mordent
4. Mandorla

Cyan Abad-Jugo Biography

Cyan Abad-Jugo is a Filipino writer, novelist, and teacher. She is the daughter of Gemino Abad (Fugitive Emphasis, In Another Light, The Space Between). She teaches Literature and Creative Writing at the Ateneo de Manila University.

Abad-Jugo graduated from Ateneo de Manila University when she was merely 19. She majored in English Literature. She has studied under Dr. Edna Manlapaz and Fr. Joseph Galdon for her writing classes. Her stay in Ateneo further developed her passion for writing and literature. During her stay in Ateneo, she was anactive member of Heights, the school's preeminent literary organization.

For her graduate studies, Abad-Jugo attended Simmons College in Boston in the United States. It's here that she earned her master’s in Children’s Literature. Her thesis adviser at Simmons College was Lois Lowry, famous American author of The Giver Quartet (The Giver, Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son). She took her PhD in English Studies: Creative Writing and Anglo-American Literature at UP Diliman.

Abad-Jugo also took up writing classes taught by N.V.M. Gonzales (Bread of Salt, The Happiest Boy in the World, The Bamboo Dancers, The Winds of April). Other writers who have had an influence on her writing include Luis Katigbak (Happy Endings, The King of Nothing to Do, Dear Distance), Dean Alfar (Salamanca, A Field Guide to the Roads of Manila, How to Traverse Terra Incognita), and Nikki Alfar (WonderLust, The Mechanism of Moving Forward).

In 1996, Cyan and her father released a book they co-authored. They titled it Father and Daughter: The Figures of Our Speech. Published by Anvil, the book is a collection of stories, poems, and essays by the two Abads.

"My professors were so enthusiastic about the things that we had to read for class, that I couldn’t help but have their enthusiasm rub off on me.” - Abad-Jugo

Books by Cyan Abad-Jugo:

- Father and Daughter: The Figures of Our Speech
- Leaf and Shadow: Stories About Some Friendly Creatures
-Salingkit: A 1986 Diary
- Sweet Summer and Other Stories
- Motherhood Statements. Eds Rica Bolipata-Santos and Cyan Abad-Jugo
- Letters From Crispin
- The Earth-Healers
- The Looking-Glass Tree
- Yaya Maya and The White King
- Friend Zones: an anthology of short stories for young adults

Luisa A. Igloria Biography and Literary Works (Poems)

Luisa A. Igloria is a Filipino-American poet. She authored 14 books of poetry and 4 chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in national and international anthologies, and print and online literary journals including Orion, Shenandoah, Indiana Review, Crab Orchard Review, Diode, Missouri Review, Rattle, Poetry East, Your Impossible Voice, Poetry, Shanghai Literary Review, Cha, Hotel Amerika, Spoon River Poetry Review, and others. She was director of the MFA Creative Writing Program at the Old Dominion University from 2009 to 2015.

Education:
1. B.A. Humanities - Cum Laude - major in Comparative Literature, minor in English, cognate in Philosophy), 1980 University of the Philippines Baguio
2. M.A. in Literature at Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines, 1988 [Robert Southwell Fellow]
3. Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing, University of Illinois at Chicago, July 1995 as Fulbright Fellow.

Awards and Recognitions:
1. Co-winner of the Crab Orchard Poetry Open competition. (2019)
2. Appointed as the 20th Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia (2020-2022)
3. Inaugural winner of the Resurgence Prize (UK). (2015)
4. Recipient of the Center for the Book Arts Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Prize. (2018)
5. May Swenson Prize, Utah State University Press (2014)
6. She was the inaugural Glasgow Visiting Writer in Residence at Washington and Lee University. (2018)
7. Second Prize at the Bridport Poetry Prize/UK. (2018)
8. Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize (2009)
9. 49th Parallel Poetry Prize (2007)
10. James Hearst Poetry Prize (2007)
11. Honorable Mention in the Potomac Review Poetry Contest (2010)
12. Finalist in the first Narrative Poetry Contest (2009)

Poetry Collections:
1. Maps for Migrants and Ghosts
2. What Is Left of Wings, I Ask
3. The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis
4. Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser
5. Juan Luna's Revolver

Trivia:
1. Since November of 2010, Igloria has been writing at least one poem a day.
2. She has a website at http://www.luisaigloria.com/.

Poems:

1. Mandorla

2. Trill and Mordent

3. The Return

4. Field Planted to Winter Grass

Fernando M. Maramag: Biography and Poems

Fernando Mamuri Maramag was a Filipino poet, journalist, editor, essayist, and teacher. He was born on January 21, 1893 in Ilagan, Isabela. His father was Rafael Maramag and his mother was Victoria Mamuri, a Spanish mestiza. At the age of 15, Maramag went to study at the Philippine Normal School (now Philippine Normal University). He later transferred to the University of the Philippines where he graduated. In UP, Maramag wrote for the school paper and soon became the editor-in-chief. 

During his stay in UP, he became classmates with Jose Hilario and Pilar Hidalgo Lim. When he was 21, Maramag became the principal at the prestigious Instituto de Manila. He also taught as an English professor at UP and at San Juan de Letran. 

Maramag married Constancia Ablaza. They had six children.

Maramag worked as an editor for various publications including The Manila Tribune, Rising Philippines, The Philippines Herald, and the National Weekly. Maramag also worked for the Philippine government as the chief of the publications division of the Department of Justice. He later served as the technical assistant to Manuel L. Quezon, then President of the Philippine Senate. 

Maramag died on October 23, 1936. On January 21, 1983, a commemorative marker was installed in his hometown in Isabela to honor his contributions to Philippine literature. 

Poems:

• The Rural Maid
• To a Youth
• Moonlight on Manila Bay
• My Queen Tagala
• The Atheist
• A Christ Without a Cross
• Jose Rizal
• The Presentation

Moonlight on Manila bay

A light serene, ethereal glory, rests

Its beams on each cresting wave;

The silver touches of the moonlight lave

The deep's bare bosom that the breeze molests;  

While lingering whispers deepen as the wavy crests

Roll with weird rhythm, now gay, now gently grave;

And floods of lambent light appear the sea to pave - 

All cast as spell that heeds not time's behests.

Not always such the scene: the din of fight

Has swelled the murmur of the peaceful air;

Here East and West have oft displayed their might;

Dark battle clouds have dimmed this scene so fair;

Here bold Olympia, one historical night,

Presaging freedom, claimed a people's care.

"Fernando M. Maramag was born in Iligan, isabela in 1893. He is considered the country's first important poet in English. Records show that his works dominated The College Folio from December 1910 to November 1912, and R. Dato's Filipino Poetry (1924). A poer and essayist, Maramag's translated Ibanag folk songs into English, such as the "Cagayanon labor Song", "A Translation of an Orphan's Song", and "Cagayano Peasant Song". His poems include "To a Youth", "The Aetheist", and "Moonlight on Manila Bay". His essays were anthologized in Leopoldo Yabes's Filipino Essays in English 1910-1954 (1954). He passed away on October 23, 1936." [Source: Philippine Literature: An Introduction to Poetry, Fiction and Drama by Baritugo, Caranguian, Punsalan, Solmerano]

Ma. Romina M. Gonzales Biography

Ma. Romina M. Gonzales is a Filipino writer and journalist. She is most well-known in the Philippine literary scene as a writer of short stories. Welostit, a short story of hers won 3rd prize at the 1997 Palanca Literary Awards. Her short story Flood won 2nd prize at the 1999 Palanca Awards. Her first collection of stories titled Welostit and Other Stories was published by the University of the Philippines Press in 2003.

From the "The Author" page of Welostit and Other Stories:

Ma. Romina M. Gonzales has a degree in Communication Arts, cum laude, from Assumption College, and a master's degree in Creative Writing from the University of the Philippines in Diliman. She worked as an associate editor of the Philippine Human Rights Monitor and as a shipping and travel correspondent of the defunct Manila Chronicle before moving to TODAY, where she is a senior reporter covering the Malacanang beat.

She was a fellow at the UP and Silliman national workshops, at the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers in Scotland, and at the Women in Journalism International Programme of the Institute for the Further Education of Journalists in Sweden. Some of her stories - hatched between consciousness and sleep, mostly written between deadlines - have won Carlos Palanca Awards. She is working on her first novel.

She lives with her family in a 133-year-old house in Malabon.