Faye Cura's Blog

Translating Emily Dickinson

Presented in Chingbee’s Poetry class in UP Diliman, September 26, 2024. Revised and expanded here! I was introduced to Emily Dickinson in high school. If I remember correctly, the first poem of hers that I read, in our poetry class in a lesson on Personification, was “Because I could not stop for Death.” My bestfriend […]

The Sunday Currently No. 20

Reopening my blog so I can properly document my writing life which has been pretty intense this year! From Sidda Thornton’s The Sunday Currently, a set of list posts with action verb prompts. C U R R E N T L Y … READING Agnes Smedley’s Daughter of Earth, which I had started to translate. I […]

The Sunday Currently No. 19

C U R R E N T L Y … It’s not a Sunday but I thought I’d do a quick disposition check using these prompts! Long time no write! From Sidda Thornton’s The Sunday Currently, a set of list posts with action verb prompts. C U R R E N T L Y … READING […]

Facing an Austere World

Notes delivered in the online launch of FACING AN AUSTERE WORLD, IBON International’s online exhibit on austerity. These are drawings I did based on a research trip that I was part of in mid-2021. The research team wanted to find out if small-scale fishers in Northern Mindanao were receiving any social protection: if they are […]

Moving House

This is the last blog entry I shall be writing in this beloved apartment on C. Francisco Street! Tomorrow is the start of a new life in the new apartment, which is bigger (two stories, two rooms) and closer to our friends. T & I are excited for the office/studio/meeting room which we will be […]

The Sunday Currently No. 18

From Sidda Thornton’s The Sunday Currently, a set of list posts with action verb prompts. C U R R E N T L Y … READING Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies, one of the books I took from a neighbor’s Little Free Library in DC. Loving Lady Rectitude so far, she […]

Netflix Notes

Being an old woman my attention span has shortened considerably but I managed to finish watching YESTERDAY and LUPIN this past week on Netflix and these got me thinking about the colonized appropriating or assuming figures or characters from colonizers — an Indian man serving as the last repository of The Beatles’ music in YESTERDAY; […]

The Sunday Currently No. 17

In Mindanao! For a long-delayed, long research trip! The past months seem to have all led to this; were spent anxiously waiting, preparing for, planning around this project. From Sidda Thornton’s The Sunday Currently, a set of list posts with action verb prompts. C U R R E N T L Y … READING Started reading […]

Women’s Books I Love

Here are books written by women that have stayed with me — that I remember 5, 10, 15, 20 years since I have read them. Maybe I’ll add to this list as we go along. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – a gift from my Auntie Nora, with whom I stayed during the […]

The Sunday Currently No. 16

From Sidda Thornton’s The Sunday Currently, a set of list posts with action verb prompts. READING and WRITING nothing in particular, just the manuscripts that we have been working on in Gantala Press, mainly for editing/proofreading: books on former comfort women (done); on the women’s health rights movement in the Philippines; and works by/for women […]