Our lady of the carnival : poems / by J. Neil C. Garcia.

his first poetry collection, closet quivers, came out in 1992. He is currently an associate for poetry of the U. P. Creative Writing Center, and edits "Gayzette," a weekly section in The Evening Paper devoted to the discussion of homo / sexual politics. Our Lady of the Carnival is his second book of poems.

J Neil C. Garcia teaches literature and creative writing at the University of the philippines. Diliman. In 1994, he co-edited Ladlad : An Anthology of Philippine Gay Writing, the landmark book that made available to a wider readership the body of homosexual literature by Filipinos. He taught the first class on gay writing ever offered in a Philippine university, and his study of Philippine gay culture's last thirty years has recently been published by U.P. Press. His poems have won for him a number of awards