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Proseso sa pagsulat ng ilang mga tula sa BRUHA

Sinulat ito bilang tugon sa makatang Ayer Arguelles na nagtanong sa proseso ng pagbuburang naganap sa bago kong koleksiyon ng tula, ang Bruha, na ilalabas ngayong taon ng High Chair at Gantala Press. — Actually, nagsimula ang Bruha sa idea na: mangongolekta ako ng mga salawikain, ireretain ang first and last lines nito, titingnan kung […]

Ang Pagsagip kay Prinsesa Laoanen

Pagpapakilalang sanaysay sa bagong kalipunan ng Gantala Press, ang LAOANEN: Kababaihan / Digmaan / Kapayapaan (2017). Ipagbibili ang aklat sa mga susunod na event: Festival of Windows, Oktubre 29, 1-5 PM sa PETA Theater Center, Quezon City Food for Peace forum, cooking demo, & salo-salo, Nobyembre 4, 1-5 PM sa Arete, Ateneo de Manila University, […]

Ang danas sa pag-aakda ng DANAS

Panimula sa Danas: mga pag-aakda ng babae ngayon; unang kalipunan ng akda ng kababaihan na inilabas ng Gantala Press. Sinulat ko kasama ang aking co-editor na si Janine Dimaranan. Ililimbag ang aklat sa Marso 18, kaarawan ni Lorena Barros, sa Uno Morato Bookstore, Quezon City.   Maikling kasaysayan ng mga antolohiyang maka-babae sa bansa Sa […]

My Year in Reading

Almost everyone agrees that 2016 was a horrible year, what with the death of great artists like David Bowie, Alan Rickman, Prince, Leonard Cohen, and Carrie Fisher; the victory of BrExit in the UK and Donald Trump in the US which both seem to have immediately set off an atmosphere of racism, bigotry, and prejudice in […]

The Sunday Currently No. 10

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 Just finished reading Patricia Highsmith’s A Dog’s Ransom, which shows Ms Highsmith at her most misanthropic. Great technique, having a well […]

The Sunday Currently No. 9

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 Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen. If I remember correctly, I’ve read this & Sense & Sensibility in high school. W R […]

Two Months in Korea – Learnings

My two-month stay in South Korea as a Cultural Partnership Initiative (CPI) fellow proved to be a major turning point in my professional life. I can say that all the following goals have been attained, along with these learnings: 1. Survey available materials in Korea on World War II, since the strength of Filipinas Heritage […]

Two Months in Korea Part 2.7

This is a travelogue on the curatorial fellowship I took in Seoul from September to October 2015 under the Cultural Partnership Initiative Program. I was lucky to have had this opportunity — there aren’t very many fellowships or training programs, it seems, for curators of library collections or history exhibits. There are many such programs though […]

Two Months in Korea Part 2.6

This is a travelogue on the curatorial fellowship I took in Seoul from September to October 2015 under the Cultural Partnership Initiative Program. I was lucky to have had this opportunity — there aren’t very many fellowships or training programs, it seems, for curators of library collections or history exhibits. There are many such programs though […]

Two Months in Korea Part 2.5

This is a travelogue on the curatorial fellowship I took in Seoul from September to October 2015 under the Cultural Partnership Initiative Program. I was lucky to have had this opportunity — there aren’t very many fellowships or training programs, it seems, for curators of library collections or history exhibits. There are many such programs though […]