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Joel M. Toledo

Joel M. Toledo is the author of six books of poetry, including Planet Nine. A former literary editor of the Philippines Free Press, Toledo was a recipient of the 2006 National Commission on Culture and the Arts Literary Prize and has won various awards for his poetry in English, including the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Award, The Meritage Press Prize, and the Bridport Prize. His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, ZYZZYVA, The Prairie Schooner, Softblow, and The Washington Square. He has co-edited local and international poetry journals and anthologies, including Caracoa, Under the Storm, and Cordite Poetry Review. A recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Poetry Residency in Bellagio, Italy, in 2011 and 2023, Toledo was also a poetry fellow of the 2011 International Writers Program at the University of Iowa, USA. He teaches Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Santo Tomas and is a Resident Fellow of the UST Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies.
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Saint-Paul de Mausole Sonnet After Van Gogh

                                         The painting started out as one crude sketch, lines and proportions silly. All over the scenery, smudge of trees and houses. There was form and there was...
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A fifth fundamental force might help explain some of the big puzzles about the Universe that have exercised scientists in recent decades. BBC The key...

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‘Pearl’ of the Orient Seas —but for how long?

There is a famous story of a wager between the Roman politician Mark Antony and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The condition was simple: to host the most expensive feast.  As the story goes, Cleopatra won by dropping a rare pearl from her earring into vinegar, dissolving it, and...

SAVE OUR CORAL REEFS! 

The Philippine archipelago, with a coastline much longer than that of the United States, has some of the world’s richest and most diverse coral reefs. Of the 500 known species in the world, 400 are found in the country’s 7,100 islands—a fantastic collection even greater than that...

THE MAYOR MARVEY MARIÑO EFFECT: How Batangas City’s chief executive is reshaping public service 

There is a certain rhythm to Batangas City—one that reveals itself in the steady movement of people, services, and systems that increasingly seem to work in sync.  From its role as a key industrial and port hub in Southern Luzon, the city has long been defined by commerce...