The Listen & Be Heard Hour for Readers & Writers
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Vince Gotera
Poet Laureate of Iowa
Author, critic, professor, musician
Vince Gotera (born 1952) is a Filipino American poet and writer, best known as Editor of the North American Review. In 1996, Nick Carbó called him a “leading Filipino-American poet of this generation”; later, in 2004, Carbó described him as “one of the leading Asian American poets … willing to take a stance against American imperialism.”
Vince Gotera was born and raised in San Francisco and lived in the Philippines as a young child. He earned his MFA in poetry and a double PhD in English and American studies from Indiana University. He also studied at Stanford University and San Francisco State University.
Gotera is the author of The Coolest Month (Final Thursday Press, 2019); Fighting Kite (Pecan Grove Press, 2007); Ghost Wars (Final Thursday Press, 2003), which won the 2004 Global Filipino Literary Award in Poetry; Dragonfly (Pecan Grove Press, 1994); and Radical Visions: Poetry by Vietnam Veterans (University of Georgia Press, 1994).
