The settlement may have been formed as early as 1763 or 1765 byįilipino deserters and escaped slaves of the Spanish Manila galleon Perhaps the first Asian-American settlement in the United States…. *”Saint Malo was the first permanent settlement of Filipinos and The Academy of American Poets awarded her a 2021 Poet Laureate Fellowship in April 2021.Īshore from the blue-black hold of a three. In July 2020, she was appointed Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Originally from Baguio City, she makes her home in Norfolk, VA where she teaches at Old Dominion University’s MFA Creative Writing Program and at The Muse Writers Center. Igloria is the author of 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. This week’s Poem of the Week is “San Maló” by Luisa A.
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