December 07, 2012 6:00-8:00pm
25 West 43rd Street, Room 1000
between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan
Luis Francia: A Filipino Writer in the World, by Luis Francia, in dialogue with Russell C. Leong, AAARI’s 2012-2013 CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor. This talk is free and open to the general public.
Luis Francia, poet, journalist, and nonfiction writer, will read and discuss his new poetry and prose which uses the world as its subject. From Manila to Hong Kong to Beijing to New York, Luis’ lyrical work transcends and trespasses borders of language, genre, nation, and history.
Luis Francia teaches Asian-American literature at Hunter College, language at New York University, and creative writing at the City University of Hong Kong. His memoir Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago won both the PEN Open Book Award and the Asian American Writers award. He is in the Library of America’s Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing. Among his poetry collections are The Arctic Archipelago and Other Poems, Museum of Absences and The Beauty of Ghosts. His poems have been included in numerous anthologies, including Language for a New Century and Love Rise Up!
His A History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos was published in 2010. He is the editor of Brown River, White Ocean: A Twentieth Century Anthology of Philippine Literature in English, and co-editor of Flippin’: Filipinos on America and Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 1899-1999.
To RSVP for this talk, please visit www.aaari.info/12-12-07Francia. Can’t make it? Watch the live webcast on our website starting at 6:15PM EST, or the post-lecture video after the talk.
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