Online: An Evening With Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, Diane Seuss, and Martha Silano

Please join the New England Poetry Club, as we feature poems from Dear Human on the Edge of Time, and new books by Luisa A. Igloria and Martha Silano.

The poetry anthology, Dear Human on the Edge of Time, responds to the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) and features work by over 70 poets and scientists. Alongside the language and methodology of science, the collection presents the language of poets, of witness and community. This reading will highlight poems from this anthology as well as newly released books: Luisa A. Igloria’s Caulbearer, and Martha Silano’s This One We Call Ours, with Diane Seuss reading for Martha Silano.

Luisa A. Igloria is the author of 14 poetry books and five chapbooks, most recently, Caulbearer, winner of the 2023 Immigrant Writing Series Prize from Black Lawrence Press. She is lead editor of Dear Human at the Edge of Time (2023) and The Nature of Our Times (2025). Various national and international literary awards include the 2019 Crab Orchard Open Competition Award for Poetry; the 2018 Center for the Book Arts Letterpress Chapbook Prize; the 2015 (inaugural) Resurgence Poetry Prize (the world’s first major ecopoetry award), the 2014 May Swenson Poetry Prize; and the 2009 Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize, among others. Luisa is the recipient of a Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry from the National Union of Writers in the Philippines, and an eleven-time recipient of The Palanca Award, the Philippines’ highest literary prize, and its Hall of Fame distinction. She is Poet Laureate Emerita of the Commonwealth of Virginia (2020-2022), a 2021 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, and a Louis I. Jaffe Professor of Creative Writing and English at Old Dominion University. https://www.luisaigloria.com  https://linktr.ee/thepoetslizard

Aileen Cassinetto is a 2021 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and co-founder of Paloma Press. She is also co-editor of Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States (2023), a companion to the Fifth National Climate Assessment, and The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders (2025), a companion to the First National Nature Assessment. Her poems have appeared in Anthropocene, Poetry, Rust & Moth, and West Trestle Review. aileencassinetto.com

Diane Seuss is the author of the poetry collections frank: sonnets (2021), winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl (2018), finalist of the LA Times Book Prize Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Four-Legged Girl (2015), finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (2010), winner of the 2009 Juniper Prize for Poetry; and It Blows You Hollow (1998). Her most recent book, Modern Poetry, was released by Graywolf Press in March 2024. She is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and the 2021 recipient of the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She currently lives in Michigan.

Martha Silano has authored seven poetry books, including The Little Office of the Immaculate Conception, winner of the 2010 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize and a Washington State Book Award finalist, and most recently, This One We Call Ours, winner of the 2023 Blue Lynx Prize. Acre Books will release Terminal Surreal,  her book about living with ALS, in September 2025. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Paris Review, AGNI, North American Review, American Poetry Review, New Ohio Review, Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Kenyon Review Online, ​Blackbird, Copper Nickel, Mississippi Review, and elsewhere. Her poem “Love” appears in The Best American Poetry 2009. https://marthasilano.net/index.html

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