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Joseph O. Legaspi
Joseph O. Legaspi is an American poet. He is the author of two full length poetry collections and two full-length poetry chapbooks. With the poet Sarah Gambito, he cofounded Kundiman (nonprofit organization), Kundiman, a national nonprofit organization that nurtures generations of writers and readers of Asian American literature. He is a juror of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Early life and education Joseph O. Legaspi earned a bachelor of arts degree from Loyola Marymount University and a master's in fine arts from New York University. Career Joseph O. Legaspi received a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. His poem "Ode to My Mother's Hair" was anthologized in ''Language for a New Century'' (W.W. Norton). In 2016, his poem "Somebody" appeared in Poem-A-Day from the Academy of American Poets. In April 2019, ''Orion Magazine'' chose Legaspi's poem "The Three Sparrows" as one of its top seven works for National Poetry Month. Legas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Gambito
Sarah Gambito is an American poet and professor. She is the author of three collections of poetry, ''Loves You'' (Persea Books, 2019), ''Delivered'' (Persea Books, 2009), and ''Matadora'' (Alice James Books, 2004). Her first collection, ''Matadora'' (Alice James Books, 2004), was a New England/New York Award winner and won the 2005 Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry. Career Gambito earned her B.A. from the University of Virginia and her M.F.A. from Brown University. She is an assistant professor of English and director of creative writing at Fordham University. She is also co-founder, with Joseph Legaspi, of Kundiman (nonprofit organization), which serves emerging Asian American poets, and she lives in New York City.From the Fishouse > Sarah Gambito Bio Gambito's poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including ''The Iowa Review'', ''The Antioch Review'', ''The New Republic'', ''Quarterly West'', ''Fence'', and in anthologies including ''From the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
