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By farce of arms
Many mythologies tell stories of men, some heroic, others not, whose might and power gave them an aura of invincibility stronger than any armor. What they had in common was a vulnerability that, if exposed, made it possible to defeat them. There was...
Lumad Displacement: a continuing social crisis
With little more than skin and bones to call their own, some makeshift schools for their children, and a patch of forest as source of food, the lumads of Mindanao have been the target of militarization and continuing displacement since anyone can remember.
Decades...
How poetry and freedom mix
It isn’t often one gets to do a sit-down interview under the spreading branches of an acacia tree, while sprawled on one’s trench coat over green, fragrant grass. But that’s how an interview with a poet can go.
Once journalist, poet and translator Tammy...
Rhymes from revolution
Even during the revolutionary period, poems played a significant role in protest and revolution. Poetry is also a powerful answer to actions inimical to the public good. It can also serve as an amplifying strike that illuminates and purges the heart of anomalies....
The devil goes shirtless
Listen, I think President Duterte is a hypocrite. For all his bombast against Catholicism, his pronouncements, lo and behold, have a solid foundation in Scripture. I fell off my chair when I realized this because, with this President, you cannot take his every...
Football beneath the volcano
Although it was rainy the entire morning, Mayon Volcano and an unusually strong sun showed up just in time for the 40 children, mostly boys, who were selected for football training on the grassy field of the Sto. Domingo Central Elementary School in...
