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George Tapan’s Baler

This is us. Hold steady.No shakes please. We need clarity.No blur, but a clear picture of the windAnd clouds, our lives amongThe pebbles, our...

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Catch the September 2023 cover of the Philippines Graphic Reader! Featuring: SHORT STORIES * The Visible Part of the Brain by Ninotchka Rosca * Somebody Else by Noelle...

Water Rondel

Love is what makes music take nature’s shape.Heart singing through the warbler’s throat,Storm clouds curling, calm ripples ‘round a boat,Music is water, its shape...

Catch the April 2023 issue of the Philippines Graphic Reader!

FEATURING: SHORT STORIES ◉  Uling by Jonell Segador Gregorio ◉  Beloved by Zosimo Quibilan, Jr. ◉  The Untermensch by U Z. Eliserio ◉  Thy Fearful Symmetry by Kelly Baños-Vergel de Dios POEMS ◉  Praying Your Will?...

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...

Reaction to the Festschrift ‘Cirilo F. Bautisa: A Lyric Sense of History’ by Marne Kilates

Delivered at De La Salle University, 20 March 2006 I have to give thanks to Dr. Marjorie Evasco, Marj to us who consider ourselves her...

ELITE: A voyeur’s peek into the darker realms of the principalia

by Joel Pablo Salud Elite. The word hums as if it were a bomb waiting to be donated. In the Philippine context, the word is...

Makiling Dusk

  Wind from the lake below Has brought the fine rain That wet the stair railings Between classrooms on Makiling. As I step out after class, The cold droplets cling...

Millennials bring home the bacon at 2017 NJLA

To the young ones be the glory: This year’s winners of the Nick Joaquin Literary Awards were all young writers with long writing careers...