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Lourd De Veyra

Lourd de Veyra has published four collections of poetry, six books of essays, and a novel. He currently works as a broadcast journalist for TV5, and on weekends plays noisy punk metal guitar for the band Kapitan Kulam.
Poetry

TWO POEMS

KUNG FU POEM You killed my master In syllables two seconds out of synch with the lips,while a crooked finger points back to himself, vengeance smoldering in...

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The Igorot Sky

Lander left our community church on the first Sunday of the year. Three years ago, I did the same thing. After college, I wanted to work in the city and felt the smallness of our community. That time, Lander asked me, "Seleny, why are you leaving our...

‘Let us not to the forgetting of our tales’

Indulge me for a while and let me make the roughest of conjectures: The lowest possible estimate for the total number of oral literary traditions in the country will be no less than four times the total number of ethnolinguistic groups across the Philippines.  A 2023 article published...

Darning

When all is done, Mama shows mehow to knot the final stitch, carefulnot to tug too tightly at the thread.The doctor must have performedthe same art on my birthing mother. Replace the surgical lightwith afternoon sun and the ob-gynremembers how her mother mendsthe bedsheets, the holes in the...