{"id":54045,"date":"2023-04-22T15:08:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T19:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=54045"},"modified":"2023-04-25T00:09:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T04:09:35","slug":"ace-festival-welcomes-20th-virginia-poet-laureate-luisa-a-igloria-as-keynote-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2023\/ace-festival-welcomes-20th-virginia-poet-laureate-luisa-a-igloria-as-keynote-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"ACE Festival welcomes 20th Virginia Poet Laureate Luisa A. Igloria as keynote speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Virginia Poet Laureate Emerita Luisa A. Igloria (2020\u20132022), author of Maps for Migrants and Ghosts<\/em> (Co-winner, 2019 Crab Orchard Open Poetry Prize) and The Buddha Wonders If She Is Having a Mid-life Crisis <\/em>(2018), is the keynote speaker for EMU\u2019s Academic and Creative Excellence (ACE) Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Igloria will deliver a keynote \u201creading address\u201d titled \u201cWhat Poetry Offers: More Than Feeling\u201d on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 from 7\u20138 p.m. in Lehman Auditorium and virtually on EMU\u2019s Facebook page<\/a>. The address invites audiences to consider how language, technique, practice and revision can be used to affect the meaning and impact of a poem. The event is open to the public and includes a reception and book signing from 8\u20139 p.m. in the Brunk Maust Lounge in the Campus Center. Three collections of Igloria\u2019s poetry will be for sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Igloria teaches at Old Dominion University where she is a Louis I. Jaffe professor of English and creative writing in the MFA Program, which she directed from 2009\u20132015. She also leads workshops for and is a member of the board of The Muse Writers Center in Norfolk, Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Igloria is the inaugural recipient of the 2015 Resurgence Poetry Prize (U.K.), the world\u2019s first major award for ecopoetry; a panel headed by former U.K. Poet Laureate Andrew Motion selected her for the prize. In July 2020, she was appointed Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia, serving a two-year term. In April 2021, she received one of 23 Poet Laureate Fellowships from the Academy of American Poets to support a program of public poetry projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find Luisa A. Igloria on social media:<\/p>\n\n\n\n