Saturday Short

Cover Art

Today's Saturday Short is the trailer for Luisa A. Igloria's new poetry collection, the marvelously titled The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis (Phoenicia Publishing, March 2018). Igloria produced the trailer with Belgian video- and sound-artist Swoon (a.k.a. Marc Neys) with whom she has collaborated on at least five other filmpoems.

If you are unfamiliar with the poetry of Igloria, who maintains a daily poetry writing practice at poet Dave Bonta's Via Negativa blog, I encourage you to browse her pieces at Dave's blog or at Igloria's own Website, and then order a chapbook or full-length collection to read. You will not be disappointed in this immensely talented poet.

Igloria, who lives in Virginia and is a professor of creative writing and English at Old Dominion University, has written more than a dozen poetry collections, including Ode to the Heart Smaller Than a Pencil Eraser (Utah State University Press, 2014) and Night Willow (Phoenicia, 2014), and three chapbooks, and is published in numerous literary journals and periodicals, as well as anthologies. She is the recipient of the 2015 Resurgence Prize (for her poem "Auguries") and the 2014 May Swenson Poetry Award, just two of many honors that have deservedly come her way.

Luisa A. Igloria Website

Swoon Website 

Phoenicia Publishing Website