These are the notes for Tabios' remarks accepting the Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Literary National Award for The Anchored Angel: Selected Writings by Jose Garcia Villa (June 17, 2000).

[If you are unfamiliar with Jose Garcia Villa's works and wish to learn more, you are encouraged to read THE ANCHORED ANGEL (Kaya, 1999)which I edited and features essays by Jessica Hagedorn,

Jose Garcia Villa grew up in Singalong Manila but spent most of his writing life in the U.S. He is one of the best when it comes to writing in English. His works have been compiled in several books.

Jose Garcia Villa (Doveglion) was one of the world's finest contemporary poets. Villa, who spent most of his life in a New York apartment, was praised by critics for his beautiful poetry.

Jose Garcia Villa Makes It to World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse ... Some Filipino and American critics and academics have alleged that Villa, through his body of works and his own poetics,

Contemporaries; Google; Report an Error; Works by Jose Garcia Villa; Works and Events 1928 - present...

; Jose Garcia Villa; Literature (1973) ... Villa's works have been collected into the following books: Footnote to Youth, Many Voices, Poems by Doveglion, Poems 55, Poems in Praise of Love:

Houghton has recently acquired the papers and a collection of the works of Villa, ... The book is entitled: Doveglion: The Collected Poems of Jose Garcia Villa (NY: Penguin Classic Book, 2008).

Carlos Cortés was born in Cebu City, grew up in Mandaue, and works in Mactan. ... Angela Manalang Gloria (1907-1993) was a contemporary of the flashy Jose Garcia Villa. He often criticized her work

The collected works of Jose Garcia Villa have been deemed worthy of being published as a Penguin Classic. Engage in nationalist consumerism and buy yourself a copy now!