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Thai Trade Center Manila opens new chapter with “Melody of Books” at MIBF 2026

MANILA, PHILIPPINES — Thailand is turning the page to a new chapter of cultural exchange as the Thai Trade Center Manila, Department of International...

There Will Be Poems that Escape Our Catching

Grace The many tremors comeunannounced, but we knowthey are coming. The old earthgives way and soft papayasare on the ground. Lemongrassfills the air and everywhere...

Instituto Cervantes to host panel discussion on literary translation

Instituto Cervantes de Manila, together with the Embassy of Spain and AECID, invites the public to a special panel discussion titled “Traducciones de ida...

Where the Missing Things Go

“What the—?” Sky’s hand stalled inside the bag, fingers grazing the lining like it might bite.  The leather was a tired brown, the kind that...

Canned Sardines

Red, orange and brownYour lunch, your dinnerYou don’t have a choiceFor it’s your only fare now It’s now on sale in storesBuy now; it’s buy...

Grandmother Cooking

Mamay, here you are soaking the soft riceAnd wrapping them in the leaves tender, darkenedDarkened by the tiniest flame that you whispered to.The bundles...

The Hunted Hunter: A Wild Boar-ing Turn of Events

Armed with a rifle and overflowing with a warrior’s confidence, my classmate's brother marched into the woods, excited about his unforgettable first solo hunt....

Things My Cat Ate

Not the red ball of yarn I threw at her,a lizard’s tail,the bright threads of a woolen rag,a fish head, some greens that felloff...

Because A… Rosebud

because a wounded rosebudtaunts the harvest moonand a failed moonbeamlimps among the dewdropswaltzing on the evening grassmy soulis searedin the embersof a brown passion Written...

Darning

When all is done, Mama shows mehow to knot the final stitch, carefulnot to tug too tightly at the thread.The doctor must have performedthe...