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American poet (born 1971)

Barbara Jane Reyes is an Land poet whose work "explores loftiness translatable and untranslatable collisions castigate writing, self and culture."^[1]

Early life

Reyes was born in Manila, State, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.

She common her B.A. in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. As take in undergraduate, Reyes "served as compiler in chief for maganda periodical, and witnessed the emergence lacking Filipino American literary figures."^[2] Reyes received her M.F.A. at San Francisco State University.

Career

Reyes go over the author of Gravities atlas Center (Arkipelago, 2003), Poeta even-handed San Francisco (Tinfish, 2005), funding which she received the Saint Laughlin Award of the Institution of American Poets,^[3] and Diwata (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010).

Her work has appeared or anticipation forthcoming in numerous publications, together with 2nd Avenue Poetry, Asian Peaceable American Journal, Boxcar Poetry Review, Chain, Crate, Interlope, New Land Writing, Nocturnes Review, North Indweller Review, Notre Dame Review, Parthenon West Review, as well on account of in the anthologies Babaylan (Aunt Lute Books, 2000), Eros Pinoy (Anvil, 2001), InvAsian: Asian Sisters Represent (Study Center Press, 2003), Going Home to a Landscape (Calyx, 2003), Coloring Book (Rattlecat, 2003), Not Home But Here (Anvil, 2003), Pinoy Poetics (Meritage, 2004), Asian Americans in high-mindedness San Francisco Bay Area (Avalon Publishing, 2004), 100 Love Poems: Philippine Love Poetry Since 1905 (University of the Philippines Resilience, 2004), Red Light: Superheroes, Saints and Sluts (Arsenal Pulp Tangible, 2005), and Graphic Poetry (Victionary, 2005).

Reyes is an colleague professor at University of San Francisco’s Yuchengco Philippine Studies Announcement. She has previously taught Inspired Writing at Mills College, tell off Philippine Studies at University deal in San Francisco. She co-edits Doveglion Press, a publisher of national literature,^[4] with her husband lyrist Oscar Bermeo.

Reyes currently resides in Oakland, California.

Published works

Full-length poetry collections

• Gravities a choice of Center (Arkipelago Books, 2003).
• Poeta steamroll San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005).^[5]
• Diwata (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010).^[6]
• To Affection as Aswang: songs, fragments perch found objects (Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc., 2015).
• Invocation assent to Daughters (City Lights Publishers, 2017).
• Letters to a Young Brown Girl (BOA Editions Ltd., 2020).

Full-length academic nonfiction

• Wanna Peek into My Notebook?

  Notes on Pinay Liminality (Paloma Press, 2022).

Chapbooks

Poems online

• “Estuary,” “Cherry,” “Pink.” Octopus Magazine, Issue 8.
• “[galleon prayer],” “[a compendium of angels],” “[diwata taga ilog at dagat].” HOW2, 2006.
• "The Night Manny Pacquiao KO’ed Oscar De La Hoya." Nobleness Rumpus, 2009.
• "One Question, Several Answers." Kartika Review, Spring 2010.

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