Post by thepoetslizard on Nov 7, 2008 16:10:13 GMT 2
Press Release:
Filipina Poets Featured at the Library of Congress [/center][/size]
The APA Collection at the Library of Congress is exhibiting the books of Asian American Women Poets in collaboration with the First Annual Festival of Women’s Poetry on the worldwide web:
A collection of the published works of select poets in the list of “100 Filipina Poets” featured on the website (curated by Luisa Igloria, multi-awarded poet), is part of this special exhibit.
Filipina poet Angela Manalang Gloria’s Poems released in 1940 is considered the first published poetry collection in English by a woman. The original, the revised edition and the updated edition, The Complete Poems, are on display. Two seldom seen monographs, Two Voices, Selected Poems of Abelardo Subido and Trinidad Tarrosa Subido[/i], published in 1945 and Trinidad Tarrosa Subido’s Private Edition: Sonnets and other Poems[/i](2002) are likewise included.
The Wompherence Exhibit in the Library of Congress is open to the public, Monday through Saturday during the month of November 2008.
It is displayed here:
Asian Reading Room, LJ150
Jefferson Building
101 Independence Avenue, N.E.
Washington DC
[/b][/center]It is displayed here:
Asian Reading Room, LJ150
Jefferson Building
101 Independence Avenue, N.E.
Washington DC
For more information, contact
Reme Grefalda
Curator, Asian Pacific American Collection
at the Library of Congress; &
Program Chair,
Asian Division Friends Society
Library of Congress
(202) 707-6096
(202) 707-1724 fax
regr@loc.gov
The Filipina poets featured in the Library of Congress Exhibit are:
Mila Aguilar, Cora Almerino, Linda Alburo, Lilia F. Antonio, Merlinda C. Bobis, Carlene S. Bonnivier, Sofiya Cabalquinto, Catalina Cariaga, Marjorie Evasco, Penelope Flores, Sarah Gambito, Reme Grefalda, Jessica Hagedorn, Luisa Igloria (Ma. Luisa B. Aguilar Carino ), Marra PL Lanot, Babeth Lolarga, Susan T. Layug, Fatima Lim-Wilson, Ruth Elynia S. Mabanglo, Angela Manalang-Gloria, Maningning Miclat, Barb Natividad, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Cristina Querrer, Lilia Quindoza-Santiago, Barbara J. Pulmano Reyes, Patria Rivera, Nadine Sarreal, Trinidad Tarrosa Subido, Eileen Tabios, Ester Tapia, Edith L. Tiempo, Rowena T. Torrevillas, and Jean Vengua.
Mila Aguilar, Cora Almerino, Linda Alburo, Lilia F. Antonio, Merlinda C. Bobis, Carlene S. Bonnivier, Sofiya Cabalquinto, Catalina Cariaga, Marjorie Evasco, Penelope Flores, Sarah Gambito, Reme Grefalda, Jessica Hagedorn, Luisa Igloria (Ma. Luisa B. Aguilar Carino ), Marra PL Lanot, Babeth Lolarga, Susan T. Layug, Fatima Lim-Wilson, Ruth Elynia S. Mabanglo, Angela Manalang-Gloria, Maningning Miclat, Barb Natividad, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Cristina Querrer, Lilia Quindoza-Santiago, Barbara J. Pulmano Reyes, Patria Rivera, Nadine Sarreal, Trinidad Tarrosa Subido, Eileen Tabios, Ester Tapia, Edith L. Tiempo, Rowena T. Torrevillas, and Jean Vengua.
Readers can find the works of 100 Filipina poets here:
www.wompherence.proboards82.com/index.cgi?board=fip
www.wompherence.proboards82.com/index.cgi?board=fip
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