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Splendor in the grass: The Poet as Fire by Joel Pablo Salud
My first sweet whiff of poet Cirilo F. Bautista’s works hardly included his poetry. It was his prose, penned in the weekly Panorama that stirred in me the dormant writer. Every week, scissor or cutter in hand, I clipped his page and read...
TRIBUTE: Cirilo F. Bautista, 76, National Artist for Literature
Poet, fictionist, essayist and National Artist for Literature Cirilo F. Bautista has passed away after a long battle with muscular dystrophy. Cirilo was 76, and had worked as a professor of literature at De La Salle University, Manila, eventually being named Professor Emeritus...
Ports of Call by Edgardo B. Maranan
Pacific Northwest
Those who named the rivers—they live
in the heart of kin, or what remains of nations
calling these forests home
We motor through the woods, pacific on all sides,
glint of sun through cedar alder aspen fir and
chestnut cypress birch, whose creation...
Edgardo B. Maranan, poet, storyteller by Alma Anonas-Carpio
He won the most number of Palanca Awards—35—and was elevated to the awards’ Hall of Fame in 2000. Some 15 of his 35 Palanca wins were first prize winning pieces—it only takes five first prize wins to attain Hall of Fame status. Ed's...
Federalism: the Filipino view by Fil V. Elefante
Federalism? What is that?
That was the apparent sentiment of most Filipinos, according to a recent survey released by Pulse Asia Research, Inc.
Put more bluntly, a big majority of Filipinos knew little or almost nothing at all about the federal system of government that...
Labor’s juncture: between promises and faith
The March 23 to 28 Pulse Asia survey revealed the top concern of the average Filipino today: wage or salary increase.
And for more than 40 million employed Filipinos, a wage hike has traditionally gone to the top of their list of demands come...
