Click above to listen to a feature review on TRILL & MORDENT, written by Lisa Murray for the local NPR station; her review ran on March 31, 2006

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* Updated the Biography, and Works sections.

LUISA IGLORIA is a poet and writer, currently based in Norfolk, Virginia. She is an Associate Professor in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Old Dominion University. When she is not teaching writing or literature, she likes to read, paint, hand-bind books, drink mojitos, cook, eat, watch movies, spend time with family, and keep her radar tuned for cool lizard sightings.

Luisa Igloria's most recent book is Trill & Mordent, which was a runner up for the 2004 Editions Poetry Prize. (Word Tech Editions, September 2005)

"Trill & Mordent is as original and evocative as its title from page one to its end. Filled with life, sensual, sensuous, this is a wonderful book by a young poet with undeniable gifts." —Thomas Lux

"Encountering the poems in Trill & Mordent, one is blessed with a Lucullan banquet of apt images and a feast of savory sentences. Luisa Igloria offers 'the face that floats beneath the water of itself' and trains the 'tongue to lexicon of ruffle and flounce.' These poems will linger in the reader's mouth." —Nick Carbó

"Luisa Igloria's new collection reflects a generous and sincere poet's meditations on daily news charged with the 'blunt wick of fear.' Her poems honor history and the private stories we keep in the body's memory. Rhythmically graceful, these poems nourish the soul." —Eugene Gloria

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