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A long goodbye

He did not know how long he was standing in front of the airport’s large, expansive glass wall, which offered a misty, drippy view of the departing plane. Not long, he supposed, because his 82-year-old knees would have buckled from standing very long,...

Public Park

The city has a way of seeming endless. Every new corner I turn into seems like a different world. Each new street is a new explosion of color, activity, and faces. And the city changes quicker than any could ever track. A designer...

A basketful of literary food

A long season of drought gripped us and passed by. Before and after the war, local newspapers and magazines carried literary sections, although sometimes irregularly. Martial law clamped down most print and broadcast media, and only the government controlled saw light. Then, little...

Marra comes back to Philippines Graphic

She was there when Philippines Graphic was born in June 1990. In those early days, Marra PL Lanot and her husband Jose “Pete” Lacaba were protégés of the late National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin, then the Editor-in-Chief of the Graphic.             Marra was...

Atwood, Grisham among contributors to pandemic novel

NEW YORK (AP) — one of the first novels about the pandemic will be a collaborative effort, with Margaret Atwood, John Grisham and Celeste Ng among the writers. The Authors Guild Foundation announced Thursday that it had reached a deal with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...

Leona: Isang sulyap

(Isang Yugtong Monologo)* Ilang Paliwanag:     Ang monologo ay may tratong daloy ng kamalayan (stream of consciousness); samakatwid, walang pagdama sa oras, panahon o tagpuan ang tauhan. Maglalabas-masok sa kasalukuyan at nakalipas Leona. Iisa ang tagapagsalaysay at si Leona, magpapalipat-lipat sa kanilang dalawa ang dayalogo at...

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Hometown

Here the seashore stores The footprints of strangers And stories about the oceans Like nobody knows until now where the first wave came from And open secrets of ancestors Like...

Public Park

The city has a way of seeming endless. Every new corner I turn into seems like a different world. Each new street is a...

Leona Florentino: Mother of Filipina poetry

Leona Florentino had a very brief life.  She just lived for 35 years, and had written only a handful of poems.  However, during her...

Lualhati, Paano Ka Ginawa?

Lualhati Bautista is one hell of a woman. Her quite ordinary face, her typical brown skin, and her average height of about five feet...