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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.
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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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MANILA, MY MANILA: Season of Advent

BUILDING A SITE Manila took a long time to make. What is now its ground used to be sea. The sea reached as far as the present towns of Mandaluyong ("a place of waves") and Makati (a place of tides"). It is said that diggers in Makati often find...

Missiles maim the undead, too: Kyiv’s cathedral, the Battle of Manila, and why war erases culture

In the history of mankind, wars have taken away far more than it created anything. The 1945 Battle of Manila and the recent attacks in Ukraine's capital of Kyiv have shown us what we lose as a species when a war—and the people behind them—threatens culture. IT IS...

The Hunted Hunter: A Wild Boar-ing Turn of Events

Armed with a rifle and overflowing with a warrior’s confidence, my classmate's brother marched into the woods, excited about his unforgettable first solo hunt. After all, they say you never forget your first. Deep in the forest, alone and silent, he slowly walked the path, eyeing a...