Luis H. Francia

Luis H. Francia Luis H. Francia is an online columnist for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, and teaches at New York University. Luis has written five collections of poetry: Her Beauty Likes Me Well (co-authored with David Friedman, 1975); The Arctic Archipelago and Other Poems (1992); Museum of Absences (2005); The Beauty of Ghosts (2010); and Tattered Boat (2014). He is the author of a memoir Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago (2001), two collections of essays, the latest being RE: Recollections, Reviews, Reflections (2014), and A History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos (2010/2014). He has edited three anthologies, including Brown River, White Ocean: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Philippine Literature in English (1993). He is the winner of the 2002 PEN Open Book Award, and 2002 Asian American Writers’ Workshop Literary Award.

A Day in the Life, in the Age of COVID-19

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PANDEMIC BRINGS US TO PANDEMONIUM, not the center of Hell—Pandemonium in Milton’s Paradise Lost—but tumult, chaos, the upending of our quotidian lives due to the infernal virus, on which we have conferred the somewhat majestic title, Novel Corona Virus-19. Normalcy is a far-away country, and even with all its attendant and even discordant notes, seems … Read more

Luis Francia: A Filipino Writer in the World

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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. “I want to write in rooms where I have … Read more