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Keana Aguila Labra

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San Jose, The United States

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Poetry

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Keana Aguila Labra is a Cebuana Tagalog Pilipinx poet & writer in diaspora residing on stolen Ohlone Tamyen land, also known as San Jose, California. They work to provide a safe literary space for underserved & underrepresented communities as the Co-Founder & Co-Publisher of the BIPOC/LGBTQIA+ focused Sampaguita Press, & Co-Editor in Chief of Sampaguita Press’ magazine imprint, Marías at Sampaguitas.

Outside of Sampaguita Press, Keana served as the co-Assistant Director of the Santa Clara County Youth Poet Laureate Program alongside Director and 2020-2021 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate, Janice Lobo Sapigao from 2021-2024. In Oct 2021, Keana served as Honorary Santa Clara County Poet Laureate alongside poet Lorenz Mazon Dumuk.

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Average rating: 4.87 · 106 ratings · 25 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	No Saints 4.83 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Natalie 4.94 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Language of Unbreaking 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Nostalgia is in the Heart by Keana Aguila Labra (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eric Asuncion (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Quotes by Keana Aguila Labra (?)

“I try again
ask for help.
I will do so until
my ears are worthy
of being called
Home.”
― Keana Aguila Labra, No Saints

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“If I see your hands,
I'll know that you tried,
but my skin is made too aware
the lack of you hovers, its staleness
scraping my lungs.”
― Keana Aguila Labra, Natalie

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“You believe you’re invincible when you’re young.
Nothing can hurt you until it does.”
― Keana Aguila Labra, No Saints

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“Man is in love and loves what vanishes.”
― W. B. Yeats

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“The truth, however, is that statistics lord over our lives every minute of every day. For the purposes of this discussion, suffice to say that all of us are the pawns of probability.”
― David DiSalvo, What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite

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