The Poetry of José Garcia Villa

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Known as the “Pope of Greenwich Village,” Filipino writer José Garcia Villa was the only Asian poet among the literary giants of 1940s New York. John Edwin Cowen and Luis H. Francia discuss Doveglion, the centennial edition of Villa’s collected poetry.

Event: John Edwin Cowen and Luis H. Francia will be speaking and signing books
Wednesday, August 6 at 6 pm
Jefferson Market Library
425 Avenue of the Americas (near West 10th Street)

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