Leading Filipino poets Luisa Igloria and Spherean/Powow Jodie (José Edmundo Ocampo) Reyes highlight the Powow River Poets October 18 reading. The reading starts at 7:30 PM, Newburyport Art Association Gallery, 65 Water Street, Newburyport, MA, www.newburyportart.org and is followed by an Open Mike.

Jodie holds degrees from Ateneo de Manila and Columbia Universities. He was featured in the most recent New Writers issue of The Hudson Review, and his poems and translations have also appeared in Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, Rattle, and other Phillipine and U.S.-published magazines and anthologies.

Luisa A. Igloria has published nine books of poetry, most recently Trill & Mordent (WordTech Editions, 2005), and edited the anthology Not Home, But Here: Writing From The Filipino Diaspora. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals including Poetry and Crab Orchard Review. She is the winner of the 2006 Stephen Dunn Award for Poetry and the first Sylvia Clare Brown Fellowship. Originally from Baguio City in the Philippines, she moved to Chicago in 1992 as a Fulbright Fellow.



[This message has been edited by Michael Cantor (edited October 17, 2006).]

Looks like an excellent reading. Were I even remotely in strikingdistance, I'd do my darnedest to make it.

Quincy