What is the future of Philippines-China relations under the new administration of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos, Jr. and the recently re-elected Chinese President Xi Jinping? What role will China play in the much-vaunted “Asian Century”?
At the center of these burning questions is...
I grew up in the remote town of Balangiga in Eastern Samar, which, as history described, became a “howling wilderness” during the Philippine-American War after being engulfed by cannonballs fired with fury by avenging American soldiers.
It was 1901 and the flickering skylight of...
The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates the Yuletide Season with Handel’s Messiah at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) main theater on Dec. 16.
With a mammoth choral ensemble composed of 200 singers from various choirs, Handel’s Messiah will once more re-assert itself as...
Edited by multi-awarded poet and essayist Marra PL. Lanot
Featuring:
SHORT STORIES
"Patch of Green" by I.S.A. Crisostomo-Lopez
“When Words Fail” by Melissa Salva
“Time for Tattoos” by Richard A. Giye
“Over the Stilt Houses at the Fishery” by Angel Salvador Chiuteña
POEMS
“Buying Newspapers in the Evening” by Totel V....
Featuring:
Postscript: The first 100 days of PBBMDeath & the journalist: The killing of Percival “Pery Lapid” MabasaRussia Unity Day & the future of Russian-Philippine relations
LITERATURE
Wounded, Unbowed: The world of short story writer and novelist Bienvenido N. SantosThe Day the Dancers Came by Bienvenido...
Graphic alum and celebrated writer Amadís Ma. Guerrero insightfully introduces Graphic readers to the world of poet, short story writer and novelist Bienvenido N. Santos.
Amadís Ma. Guerrero is an author, short story writer and cultural journalist who focuses on Philippine arts and letters.
He...
The Carlos Palanca Foundation, Inc., the sponsor and organizer of the 70th Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, is reminding aspiring Palanca awardees to...
Sense and notion meld
where sound is sight,
and stillness is moving.
It completes an oxymoron
for the day: What crack
of thunder and flash
of lightning would slice
this mid-morning...