Filipino Lit
AFCC Update 3: Philippine Delegates brought Passion, Music, and Vibrance to the Festival
The basic premise of the Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) is to showcase and highlight masterful storytelling, artwork, imagery that is of Asian content and bringing it to the world’s children. This year, AFCC has upped the ante by doing a regional focus on the Philippines. This marks the beginning of a ‘global trek’ [...]
Life in the Overseas for Poetry Friday
For today’s Poetry Friday, I’ve been given the opportunity to post my contribution to this ongoing meme. In the tradition of Gathering Books, today’s poem coincides with our bimonthly theme: Festival of Asian Literature and the Immigrant Experience. Check out Katya of Write. Sketch. Repeat. for this week’s round-up. The poem I chose is representative [...]
Poetry Friday: There Are No Happy Endings [because] We Have Such Solid Measures for Pain // Two Poems by Joel M. Toledo
It’s Friday once again—that day of the week when poetry decides it’s a good idea to invade the blogosphere. For days now, I was contemplating on what poems to feature for this beautiful weekly meme hosted today by JoAnn at TeachingAuthors. Week after week after week, Myra and Iphigene have shared the magical words of [...]
Poetry Friday: A poem for 2012 – Joel M. Toledo’s ‘The New Hollow’
Two more nights and 2012 is upon us. As I was sifting through Joel M. Toledo’s poetry, our Featured Poet in GatheringBooks for November and December, I was struck by this title: The New Hollow as taken from his book The Long Lost Startle. I felt that it would be a fitting contribution to Poetry Friday [...]
Poetry Friday: Joel M. Toledo’s Learning to Swim
We continue with our feature of Joel M. Toledo in this week’s Poetry Friday, hosted by Robyn Hood Black. Choosing a poem from Joel M. Toledo’s poetry is a difficult task. One wonders which one is a better poem, only to realize that such a comparison cannot be made. So, I then must decide on [...]
