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Remembering Cirilo by Krip Yuson
I can’t recall exactly when and where I first met Cirilo, but it must have been in the late 1970s, likely at a Palanca awards night or some literary gathering, infrequent as that was in those days. Much earlier, I had been so...
Reaction to the Festschrift ‘Cirilo F. Bautisa: A Lyric Sense of History’ by Marne Kilates
Delivered at De La Salle University, 20 March 2006
I have to give thanks to Dr. Marjorie Evasco, Marj to us who consider ourselves her goodfriends, for this chance to look again, with fascination and some trepidation, at the poetry of Dr. Cirilio F....
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...
