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The 2024 NICK JOAQUIN LITERARY AWARDS’ 82 GRAPHIC SALUTE AWARDEES

“Publication is the first hurdle of a writer who wants the public to read his or her work. Publication is the first level of...

National Artists to lead in NJLA 2024

Three of the country’s National Artists will be on hand to lead close to a hundred short story writers and poets in celebrating the...

Seven Excerpts toward a Theory of Musicology (For Elizabeth)

Our estrangement It begins with a boat trip of course, as all things do, and where else but to Dumaguete, city in the south, year...

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...

More poems in refracted light

  As a child I was taught never To curse the rain, no matter the floods Or the roof blown off due to howling Wind, indeed never mind...

Loonpoem

Under the broken streetlamp a Loonpoem struggles to be born In the ruins. Her voice cried As the earth cracked open And Our Lady of Light came Tumbling down. The selfsame...