POET AND FULBRIGHT FELLOW TO LECTURE IN UST
Award-winning Filipino-American poet Eugene Gloria will be delivering a lecture on the craft of writing poetry on April 27, 35 p.m. at Blaylock Hall, G/F Benavides Building, University of Santo Tomas.
His lecture is the latest installment of the International Writers and Scholars Series, a regular program of the UST Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies (UST CCWLS), where Gloria is senior visiting fellow. Gloria is also associate professorial lecturer of the UST Graduate School on a Fulbright Lecturer grant.
Gloria has an M.F.A. from the University of Oregon.
He is an associate professor of English at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, where he teaches creative writing and English literature. He has published three poetry collections:
“My Favorite Warlord” (Penguin Books, 2012), “Hoodlum Birds” (Penguin Books, 2006), and “Drivers at the Short-Time Motel” (Penguin Books, 2000).
He has been a scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and a resident at the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Artists Residency, Montalvo Arts Center, Fundación Valparaíso in Spain, Le Château de Lavigny in Switzerland, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Virginia and in France.
Among his awards are the Poetry Society of America award, George Bogin Memorial Award, National Poetry Series selection for “Drivers at the Short-Time Motel,” Asian American Literary Award, and Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.