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Nerissa Del Carmen Guevarra

Nerissa Del Carmen Guevarra is an Associate Professor at the University of Santo Tomas, where she teaches Creative Writing and is a resident fellow of the UST Center for Creative Writing. She is the author of Reaching Destination: Poems and the Search for Home (UST Publishing House, 2004). Her poems have been published here and abroad, and her performance art has been featured in the Philippines and other countries.
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FALL

How lovely to imagine he fall.In many ways, how true is that word for the season? And how the Bible has it in its very...

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Maynilad joins UN Global Compact, strengthens ESG governance

VIA GRAPHIC PLUS — West Zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (Maynilad) has joined the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), committing to further align its business practices with globally recognized principles on human rights, labor, environmental responsibility, and anti-corruption. The UNGC is the world's largest corporate sustainability initiative,...

The World in the time of Nick Joaquin

Europe, the seat of everything that was grand, powerful, and prosperous, was caught in the teeth of the First World War, the year Nicomedes Márquez Joaquín was born on May 4, 1917. It was half a world away from a boy who would emerge half a century...

Giant clam shells and shipwrecked ivories: The enduring allure of Philippine craft

When I visited the Sagrada Família, I noticed six giant clam-shell holy-water stoups from the Philippines installed near the rear of Architect Antoni Gaudi’s basilica. Each shell is accompanied by a plaque inscribed in Filipino and Spanish reading: “Alay ng Sambayanang Filipino/Ofrenda del pueblo Filipino.” According to numerous reports...