Luisa A. Igloria was born in the Philippines and received a PhD in creative writing from the University of Illinois. The author of ten poetry collections, she received the 2009 Ernest Sandeen Prize for Juan Luna’s Revolver. She was chosen by Ted Kooser as the recipient of the 2007 James Hearst Poetry Prize and by Adrienne Rich for the 2006 National Writers Union Poetry Prize, and she was a finalist in Narrative’s First Annual Poetry Contest. Igloria directs the MFA Creative Writing Program at Old Dominion University, Virginia.



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Meditation on a Seam

by Luisa A. Igloria

Nights were salted with the pock-
             and-punch-punch-punch of sewing
                          needles on cloth, the crease and rustle

of pattern paper outlining arms
             and bodices of other women who’d wear
                          the clothes these sisters made,
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