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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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‘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...