"autumn wind" Kukai Sep/Oct 2010
"fall trees" Haiku Thread Sep/Oct 2010
Let Us Pray:
Free
Verse: a beggar’s prayer, Sizes,
who but the heart
About
Alegria Imperial, CA
Alegria Imperial is new to poetry—if
ten years of learning the craft can be called new. As a
degree holder in literature and journalism, which she
followed with graduate studies in philosophy at the
400-year old catholic university of Santo Tomas in
Manila, she was a public relations and marketing officer
in the arts, education, and government and later a
journalist, multi-media script writer, concept designer
and text writer of museum exhibits in Manila. She dared
to learn novel writing in New York in 1998, which led
her as well to writing poetry and an apprenticeship with
a small developer in Baltimore, MA in writing short
short stories for children as passages in reading
resource books. She stumbled on haiku in 2003. She
migrated to Vancouver, Canada from Manila, Philippines
in December 2006.
Poetry
awards she has won: honorable mention, 2007 Vancouver
Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational, honorable
mention, 2007 Passager Poetry Contest in Baltimore, MA.,
USA. Her published books: Points in Time, a
collection of interviews published in national dailies,
University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, Manila,
Philippines, 2006 (one of 400 titles to celebrate the
university’s quadro-centennial), and Mythogyny, an
anthology of true-to-life voices from interviews of 78
women elders in British Columbia (co-editor),
Women Elders in Action with funding from Status of
Women Canada, Horseshoe Publishing, 2009,
Vancouver, Canada.
Links to her
blogs: on haiku and other lyric poems:
http://jornales.wordpress.com lyrical prose
(reflections, musings):
http://innerspace.wordpress.com
personal and other essays some verses on the
Philippines:
http://filipineses09.wordpress.com
This is
Alegra Imperial's first appearance in Sketchbook.
