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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 lifetime (1849-1884), writings by a woman were never heard of.
Born to a family of prominence and wealth in Vigan...
When literature is a rap
Text and photos by Bernard Testa
“Ma’ kung saan ka man ngayon,
ok lang ako, huwag kang mag-alala,
mag-aaral ako. Huwag kang malulungkot
dahil hindi ako sumasama sa masasamang
barkada, kakanta lang ako…
”
Seventeen-year-old Vin Andrei Laxamana Montañez is an underground rapper. A resident of Sitio Lower Lucban, Barangay...
Literary harvest: The 37th National Book Awards
Pomp and circumstance is rarely a thing in local literary circles. Writing is often lonely work, punctuated by bursts of frenetic production and post-production work where looking glamorous and sipping chilled drinks is not part of the process. But even the task of...
A poetics of the literary work
Let me begin with a general perspective on the mind, language, and the literary work, and end on our country’s literature.
MIND
The human person is the only being on earth that seeks truth in knowledge. Truth-seeking then is our essence or nature as...
