Gemino Abad

Literature

Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta: Portrait of the Filipino Woman as Poet

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

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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...

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Elmer Ordoñez’ “Father’s Doppelganger”: Old friends & memories of war on a rainy afternoon

Photos courtesy of Arkibong Bayan, Dr. Elmer Ordoñez, and Ishmael Ordoñez Maybe, it is his favorite—dark pants and that green-ochre polo shirt with vertical black...

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Essay

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...

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