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Luxent Hotel welcomes NJLA 2025

With its sleek, contemporary glass faΓ§ade, the classic and elegant Luxent Hotel along Timog Avenue in Quezon City is this year’s venue for the...

Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta: Portrait of the Filipino Woman as Poet

The late great Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta became one of the Philippines’ major poets β€œregardless of gender” but her first love was music, and she...

Father the griffin

A year before he died in 2002, a documentary was made on the life and times of national artist for literature Francisco Arcellana, part...

Elmer OrdoΓ±ez’ β€œFather’s Doppelganger”: Old friends & memories of war on a rainy afternoon

Photos courtesy of Arkibong Bayan, Dr. Elmer OrdoΓ±ez, and Ishmael OrdoΓ±ez Maybe, it is his favoriteβ€”dark pants and that green-ochre polo shirt with vertical black...

Book hunter and epic poet: Cirilo F. Bautista by Ramil Digal Gulle

Poet Cirilo F. Bautista, way back in 1991, taught me his method of hunting books at a second hand bookshop. As we walked from the...