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Punan

Tinalakay sa graduate class ni Chingbee ngayong araw, Enero 19, 2021 Una kong naisip isulat ang punan pagkatapos ilabas ang ikatlo kong koleksiyon ng tula, ang Bruha, noong 2018. Ito ang panahon na nailunsad na rin ang Gantala Press at mayroong pagkasabik sa bagong mga akda ng kabataang kababaihang artist at manunulat. Naisip ko, bilang […]

David Medalla

David Medalla died yesterday — December 28, which is Winner’s birthday. Winner who I went to high school with, at PHSA where I first read about Medalla, in a journal published by the NCCA. Medalla died in Manila, although he spent most of his life in London. He was born on March 23, 1942 and […]

The Sunday Currently No. 15

From Sidda Thornton’s The Sunday Currently, a set of list posts with action verb prompts. READING How to End Suffering by Pankaj Mishra, a travelogue through South Asia/a history of Buddhism which I picked up from my bookshelf after listening to a podcast on Sufism and Buddhism. The subject is deeply interesting but I don’t […]

Work It!

Was invited by the young ‘uns from GirlUp Philippines to join their discussion on “women in the workplace.” Had the honor of speaking alongside Clark Leynes, Iya Yotoko Aguila, and Inez Ponce de Leon. Below is my spiel, not including the improvs ! Please introduce yourself and your occupation. I am Faye Cura, co-founder of […]

Mga puna sa Punan

Nakatanggap ng mga nakakataba-ng-pusong puna (unsolicited!) mula sa mga kaibigan tungkol sa punan. Itong isa ay sumusunod sa isang diskusyon tungkol sa panulaang burgis. “Maaaring sa unang tingin ay taliwas ang mga tula sa mga nailimbag nang mga sulatin ukol at para sa bayan. Ang mga tula sa Punan ay nagpaparamdam ng papasok na pagtatangis; […]

Doll making

Spending a lot of my creative energy lately on making dolls. I remember playing with homemade paper dolls as a young girl. I would draw my dolls on cardboard and design their clothes (and bags!) on bond paper. We didn’t have a lot of toys growing up so we had to make our own. I […]

Punan

In the past two weeks, I quite suddenly threw myself into completing my fourth poetry collection, punan (to fill the gaps), which I started writing in 2018. I wrote 20+ more poems, translated five, and laid out the book in a matter of days. T was asking, What’s the rush? I dunno where the energy […]

The Sunday Currently No. 14

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 . . . R E A D I N G the last few chapters of I, Rigoberta Menchu, a truly engrossing memoir by the Guatemalan feminist & Mayan leader who lost […]

Check-in

Woke up to a request from Sir JB to access my blog for a scholarly research he’s doing! & yesterday A asked me why I have not been updating my blog. Privatized this blog a few months back for security reasons, when the enhanced Terror Law was first passed by the House. Having no Facebook, […]

Balik-Probinsiya Program

Reaksiyong binasa sa “Walang Pag-asa Kung Walang Lupa” webinar ng Amihan National Federation of Peasant Women Naaalala ko rito sa Balik-Probinsiya Program ang balik-probinsiya program ng gobyernong papet noong World War II, kung saan hinikayat nila ang mga mamamayan na umuwi sa probinsiya para tiyakin ang seguridad sa pagkain at supplies. So kababaihan ang mga […]