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National Artists to lead in NJLA 2024
Three of the country’s National Artists will be on hand to lead close to a hundred short story writers and poets in celebrating the...
Literature
Edith L. Tiempo: Up close and personal
I met Edith L. Tiempo on the night I won my first national literary award in 1979, from Focus Philippines. She headed the panel of judges. My story “Old and Unborn” placed third, but having her as one of the judges made me feel like a first prize winner,...
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Literature
Graphic Reader trilingual editor takes home the Premio Antonio M. Abad Award
For her arresting collection of poems, Soy (I am), multi-awarded poet, essayist, and trilingual writer Marra PL. Lanot won the Hispanic-Philippine Literature Award at...
The humor of D. Paulo Dizon
A Google-search of his name will not yield much data or information. He is probably one of the Filipino fiction writers from the 1950s...
Literature
Edith L. Tiempo: Up close and personal
I met Edith L. Tiempo on the night I won my first national literary award in 1979, from Focus Philippines. She headed the panel of judges. My story “Old and Unborn” placed third, but having her as one of...
Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta: Portrait of the Filipino Woman as Poet
The late great Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta became one of the Philippines’ major poets “regardless of gender” but her first love was music, and she...
Paz Marquez-Benitez: Between literature and history
Philippine history boiled, bubbled, and spewed trouble in the years that marked the birth and growing up years of Paz Marquez-Benitez.
The future short story...
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Pete Lacaba & Marra Lanot: On marriage and the muse
This Valentine’s month, we present to our readers a time capsule; a love story first put into words by noted journalist Pablo A. Tariman in a 1981 article published by the defunct Celebrity Magazine. It speaks of a time...
Pete Lacaba & Marra Lanot: On marriage and the muse
This Valentine’s month, we present to our readers a time capsule; a love story first put into words by noted journalist Pablo A. Tariman...
The full circle of Tony, Nick & Pete
Photo by Bernard Testa
The last decade of the 20th century saw the third re-emergence of the Philippines Graphic—this time, under the ownership of the...
Project Coffee
When God created the world in seven days, probably, there was already coffee on the third day. To fast forward human existence, coffee was...
Red Is the River that Runs
Blood has a peculiar, coppery taste in the mouth. Carmen smells it first, a familiar metallic tang from rusted iron reminiscent of white sartin...
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The full circle of Tony, Nick & Pete
Photo by Bernard Testa
The last decade of the 20th century saw the third re-emergence of the Philippines Graphic—this time, under the ownership of the...
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UP atmospheric physicist takes to the skies with NASA: Monitoring air quality on NASA817
Dr. Gerry Bagtasa of the University of the Philippines-Diliman College of Science–Institute of Environmental Science and Meteorology (UPD–CS IESM) took flight with the National Aeronautic Space Administration (NASA) recently, as part of an air pollution measurement campaign called ASIA-AQ...
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“No patent, no right”: UP lawyer highlights scientists’ need to protect inventions
In the ‘90s, Dr. Neila Cortes-Maramba of the University of the Philippines (UP) in Manila led a team of scientists investigating 10 medicinal plants in the Philippines.
Two of these...
PHOTO ESSAY
A PINOY PHOTOGRAPHER IN AMAZING CHANG MAI
Every year, some 20 to 24 million tourists visit one of the oldest kingdoms in Southeast Asia—Siam, presently referred to as Thailand.
Located at the heart of Southeast Asia, Thailand...
Wellness
Novartis offers solutions to medicine access problem through its access principles
A major problem emerged at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFMA) reported at that time, the COVID-19 vaccines were not...
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STUDENT’S CORNER
When the Philippines Graphic Reader started in February 2022, it became the first and only nationally-circulated, monthly, literary magazine in the country devoted to Philippine literature in English. This year, on its third year, it transitions to being an...
ISSA, ONE AND ONLY
I am Issa—the one and only. My parents named me Juan, which in English sounds like “one.” In Tagalog, “one” is isa, just like...
Arranging Furniture at Midnight
I move chairs at midnight,
Adjusting my wife’s preference
Which one is facing which.
The cats are doing football
Banging on tables and walls.
All six of them,
Siamese versus...
The Times, They Are A-Changing
Saturday. The afternoon’s stifling heat is rising in waves. Rogie crosses the road and pushes the gate of the compound of Dr Rieu’s residence....
Philippines Graphic Reader
Patterns
The chisel as creator
Lends shape to wood, to stone.
Shape being the truth of character,
Reality of body and bone,
Sculpted fact of form,
The confidence of matter.
The...
