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Wala Akong Bitbit na Sawiang Puso Tuwing Naglalakbay: Mga Tula
KUNG tatanungin ako kung ano ang kaya kong gawin para sa pag-ibig, wala akong ibang maisasagot kundi ang umibig pa at umibig pa at umipig pa. At sa koleksyong ito ni Carlo Arejola, nakakuha ako ng kakampi. Isang mangingibig si Arejola na 'di palulupig sa mga politika ng mga nakasanayang muhon, hindi upang tuluyang limutin ang mga ito, kundi upang tukuyin ang mga labis sa mga kinasasanayan, tunghayan ang mga posibilidad sa mga inaakalang takda, at usigin ang mga dapat panagutin. Buong-buo nga ang puso ni Arejola sa paglalakbay sa kanyang panulaan--hindi dahil wala siyang alam sa kung paano ang mabigo, kundi dahil sa kabila at pagkatapos ng lahat, isang konbersyon ang laging nagaganap sa sinumang namamanata sa pag-ibig; tulad ng paglalakbay, magtitiwalang may mararating ang lahat -- Adrian V. Remodo
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First published January 1, 2015
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About the author
Carlos A. Arejola
1 book2 followersCarlos A. Arejola writes poetry, drama, essays, and stories for children in Bikol
Central, Filipino, and English. He directs plays, translates, and has initiated projects
advocating for writing in the vernacular, cultural heritage, and the arts. He is also an
active figure in the Bikol lecture circuit.
As writer and author Arejola is the author of eight books of plays, poetry, and illustrated children’s storybooks. His works have appeared in national magazines, textbooks, literary journals and anthologies published by the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Society of St. Paul, Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, University of San Agustin, Ateneo de Manila University, and the University of the Philippines. His poetry appeared
in the 1995, 1996 and 2001 editions of Aklat Likhaan ng Maikling Kuwento at Tula, a
series compilation of the best of Philippine writing published by the Likhaan: UP
Creative Writing Center and UP Press. His writings in Bikol have appeared in Bangraw;
Burak, Balay Ibalon’s annual anthology; Girok, the landmark Bikol erotica collection;
Sagurong 100 na Kontemporanyong Rawitdawit sa Manlain-lain na Tataramon Bikol
published by De La Salle University; An Tambobong nin Literaturang Bikolnon
published by Sumaro Bikolnon, Inc. and the literary section of Bikol Reporter.
He was a Writing Fellow for Poetry in Filipino at the UP National Writers Workshop in
1998 and the Iligan National Writers Workshop in 2000. His works have won the Don
Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, Gawad Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino,
and the Homelife Poetry Prize. His book of plays, Sayod Kong Tataramon/ Tuwiran
Kong Sasabihin (NCCA, 2009) was a finalist for the Madrigal-Gonzalez Best First Book
Award in 2010 and is credited to be Bicol’s first published collection of plays. He was a
recipient of a Citation for Literature from the Dr. Melchor T. Villanueva Centennial
Awards in 2007. The Municipal Government of Pili, Camarines Sur also awarded him
the Mayoral Distinguished Award in 2008, the year the award was founded.
He is a member of Sumaro Bikolnon, Philippine Center of the International PEN, and
the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL).
As editor and translator
He co-edited Yudi Man Mga Osipon para ki Nunuy asin Nini (NCCA, 2009), an
anthology of Premio Tomas Arejola-award winning stories for children; and is the co-
editor of The Pronoun I: First Person, Singular (Pintakasi Media Arts, 2017) and
Gotikong Bikol (Sentro ng Wika at Kultura-Region V, 2017). The Pronoun I is a
collection of monologues in Bikol, Filipino, English and is a collaboration of three
campus-based theater groups, the Teatro Aliento de Ateneo of the Ateneo de Naga
University, Teatro Ladawan of Central Bicol State University of Agriculture and Teatro
Ragayano of the Ragay National Agricultural and Fisheries School.
His Bikol translations of Maria Luisa F. Reyes’s poetry in Filipino appeared in the
landmark Sipat Salin Transfigurations (Talindaw Publishing House and Sanata Dharma
University, Indonesia, 2011). Hawla, his Bikol adaptation of Trifles by Susan Glaspell
was staged by Teatro Ragayano in 2016, one hundred years after the iconic play’s 1916
premiere in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Teatro Ragayano also staged Kuwintas, his
Filipino adaptation of Linda Ty Casper’s fiction The Transparent Sun, in 2017.
To reach out to Bicolano children who speak in the other variations of the Bikol
language, Arejola accompanies his children’s storybooks in Bikol Central with
translations in English and Filipino. The multilingual books for children are published by
Pintakasi Media Arts, an independent media outfit he put up in 2015. The outfit is slated
to produce video documentaries and short films in the future.
Central, Filipino, and English. He directs plays, translates, and has initiated projects
advocating for writing in the vernacular, cultural heritage, and the arts. He is also an
active figure in the Bikol lecture circuit.
As writer and author Arejola is the author of eight books of plays, poetry, and illustrated children’s storybooks. His works have appeared in national magazines, textbooks, literary journals and anthologies published by the Cultural Center of the Philippines, Society of St. Paul, Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, University of San Agustin, Ateneo de Manila University, and the University of the Philippines. His poetry appeared
in the 1995, 1996 and 2001 editions of Aklat Likhaan ng Maikling Kuwento at Tula, a
series compilation of the best of Philippine writing published by the Likhaan: UP
Creative Writing Center and UP Press. His writings in Bikol have appeared in Bangraw;
Burak, Balay Ibalon’s annual anthology; Girok, the landmark Bikol erotica collection;
Sagurong 100 na Kontemporanyong Rawitdawit sa Manlain-lain na Tataramon Bikol
published by De La Salle University; An Tambobong nin Literaturang Bikolnon
published by Sumaro Bikolnon, Inc. and the literary section of Bikol Reporter.
He was a Writing Fellow for Poetry in Filipino at the UP National Writers Workshop in
1998 and the Iligan National Writers Workshop in 2000. His works have won the Don
Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature, Gawad Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino,
and the Homelife Poetry Prize. His book of plays, Sayod Kong Tataramon/ Tuwiran
Kong Sasabihin (NCCA, 2009) was a finalist for the Madrigal-Gonzalez Best First Book
Award in 2010 and is credited to be Bicol’s first published collection of plays. He was a
recipient of a Citation for Literature from the Dr. Melchor T. Villanueva Centennial
Awards in 2007. The Municipal Government of Pili, Camarines Sur also awarded him
the Mayoral Distinguished Award in 2008, the year the award was founded.
He is a member of Sumaro Bikolnon, Philippine Center of the International PEN, and
the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL).
As editor and translator
He co-edited Yudi Man Mga Osipon para ki Nunuy asin Nini (NCCA, 2009), an
anthology of Premio Tomas Arejola-award winning stories for children; and is the co-
editor of The Pronoun I: First Person, Singular (Pintakasi Media Arts, 2017) and
Gotikong Bikol (Sentro ng Wika at Kultura-Region V, 2017). The Pronoun I is a
collection of monologues in Bikol, Filipino, English and is a collaboration of three
campus-based theater groups, the Teatro Aliento de Ateneo of the Ateneo de Naga
University, Teatro Ladawan of Central Bicol State University of Agriculture and Teatro
Ragayano of the Ragay National Agricultural and Fisheries School.
His Bikol translations of Maria Luisa F. Reyes’s poetry in Filipino appeared in the
landmark Sipat Salin Transfigurations (Talindaw Publishing House and Sanata Dharma
University, Indonesia, 2011). Hawla, his Bikol adaptation of Trifles by Susan Glaspell
was staged by Teatro Ragayano in 2016, one hundred years after the iconic play’s 1916
premiere in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Teatro Ragayano also staged Kuwintas, his
Filipino adaptation of Linda Ty Casper’s fiction The Transparent Sun, in 2017.
To reach out to Bicolano children who speak in the other variations of the Bikol
language, Arejola accompanies his children’s storybooks in Bikol Central with
translations in English and Filipino. The multilingual books for children are published by
Pintakasi Media Arts, an independent media outfit he put up in 2015. The outfit is slated
to produce video documentaries and short films in the future.
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