A Panel by Luis Francia, Vina Orden, Patrick Rosal, Renato Rosaldo, and Mary Louise Pratt
Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2023 | 7:00 pm
Venue: NYU King Juan Carlos Center | 53 Washington Sq S, NYC 10012
RSVP Link: https://bit.ly/sulo-poetry
Free and open to the public; proof of vaccination is required. Light refreshments will be served
About the Panelists:
Luis H. Francia’s latest poetry volume is Thorn Grass. His memoir Eye of the Fish won both the Pen Open Book and the Asian American Writers Workshop awards in 2002. Author of two collections of essays, he is in the Library of America’s Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing. Also a playwright, he teaches Filipino Language and Culture at NYU’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, and is co-chair of the university’s Sulo: Philippine Studies Initiative.
Vina Orden is a writer, artist, and human rights activist based in Lenapehoking/New York City. She was a 2022 Open City Fellow in community journalism at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop where she curated the signature event “Martial Law @ 50: To Remember Is to Resist” and contributed to the notebook “Against Forgetting.” She was a participant in Tin House’s 2022 YA Workshop and a 2022 Kweli Sing the Truth! Mentee and is working on her first novel for young adults. Vina is a graduate of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @hyffeinated or visit her website at vinaorden.com.
Patrick Rosal’s collection, The Last Thing: New and Selected Poems, garnered the 2021 William Carlos Williams Award. He has won Guggenheim, NEA, and Fulbright fellowships and the Lenore Marshall Prize. Professor of English and Co-Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers-Camden, he has performed at Lincoln Center, La Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, the Cabrillo projects for agricultural workers, and Delano Filipino Community Hall.
Renato Rosaldo is a cultural anthropologist and poet, who taught for many years at Stanford and at NYU. He did several years of fieldwork with tribal people in the Philippines. A well-known cultural theorist, he is author of Ilongot Headhunting 1883-1974; Culture and Truth: Remaking Social Analysis; and five books of poetry, including The Day of Shelley’s Death, set in the Philippines.
Mary Louise Pratt is professor emerita in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. A specialist in modern Latin American culture, she has written comparatively about independence struggles in Spanish America and the Philippines.