A Vietnamese Mardi Gras krewe.
The Black longshoremen of Mobile’s Banana Docks.
A meditation on rice and belonging.
This Food Issue isn’t just about what Southerners eat—it’s about who we are, where we’ve been, and where we’re going.
Luisa A. Igloria
About
Luisa A. Igloria is co-winner of the 2019 Crab Orchard Poetry Competition for Maps for Migrants and Ghosts (2020). Her other awards include the May Swenson Prize and the Resurgence Poetry Prize (UK). She teaches in the MFA program at Old Dominion University. In July 2020, she was appointed Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia (2020–22).