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Blood, sweat, and political bluster heighten in raging July
A spree of violence contrasted with presidential attempts at religious peace-making as the first week of July rolled on the blood of two mayors, two vice mayors, a councilor, and a radio broadcaster while President Rodrigo Duterte committed to mend fences with the...
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...
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...
