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National Poetry Month: Bob Flor at Poets & Writers
Happy National Poetry Month to you all. This April, Seattle-based writer Bob Flor is blogging at Poets & Writers. Flor writes, “In 2006 I co-founded Pinoy Words Expressed Kultura Arts with a friend—Maria Batayola. Our objective was to introduce the public to Filipino American writers, and we quickly discovered a number of Filipinos producing poetry, literature, and … Continue reading
Announcement from POETS ON THE GREAT RECESSION
“To bring the poem into the world is to bring the world into the poem.” We are pleased to share the inauguration of POETS ON THE GREAT RECESSION athttp://poetsonrecession.blogspot.com . The project features poets presenting the many varied face(t)s of their Great Recession experience, and how such has affected (or not) their poetry. We are looking for … Continue reading
Article: Scholar’s Views Rile State Department (On Rhacel Salazar Parreñas’s Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo)
From the Chronicle of Higher Education: The author of a new scholarly book from Stanford University Press has become the target of criticism from an unusual source: the U.S. Department of State. In recent weeks, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, a professor of sociology at the University of Southern California, has received media attention for Illicit Flirtations: Labor, … Continue reading
Interview: C.E. Gatchalian – “Crossing and Other Plays”
Belatedly posting this interview with Filipino Canadian playwright, C.E. Gatchalian, author of Crossing and Other Plays (Lethe Press), and whose play, Falling in Time, is currently showing in Vancouver: Vancouver playwright C.E. (Chris) Gatchalian is the author of three books of drama and one of poetry. His most recent undertaking is a collection of three … Continue reading
BALIKBAYAN: Portraits by Ann Borja in the SF Chronicle
As a child growing up in Daly City and San Francisco, Ann Borja relished taking her grandmother’s photographs out of the metal cookie tin in which they were stored and pondering the images. Aside from being curious about the actual process of making the sepia-toned and black-and-white photos, their subjects intrigued her. “Most importantly, I … Continue reading
Foreword to RIZAL, WOMAN, REVOLUTION by E. SAN JUAN, Jr.
E. San Juan Jr. at the Philippines Matrix Project: A specter is haunting las islas Filipinas—not just the territory, but also the Filipino diaspora around the world. Jose Rizal as ghost or the phantom in the neocolonial opera stalks across islands and continents. Rizal–the name is familiar, even a household word, like Avenida Rizal, Rizal Coliseum, … Continue reading
Huffington Post: Celebrating Filipino American Literature, Poetry & Art in NYC
From Huffington Post: Celebrating Filipino American Literature, Poetry & Art in NYC by Feliz L. Molina In Queens, NY, from Sept. 21 to Oct. 29 there will be a Fil Am gathering of writers, artists, and scholars hosted by Queens Poet Lore Paolo Javier and Bliss on Bliss Art Projects visual artist/printmaker Ged Merino. I interviewed Paolo … Continue reading
Article: Ramona Diaz’s ‘The Learning’ Follows the Hopes and Trials of Four Filipina Teachers Coming to America
From Asian Journal: POV’s The Learning tells a surprising tale of immigration, globalization and America’s shifting position in the 21st century. When the United States took possession of the Philippines in 1898, American teachers set up the islands’ public school system. English was established as the language of instruction and remains so to this day. Today in … Continue reading
Beyond words and identities: What makes a Filipino novel?
Via philstar.com: What makes a Filipino novel? Should it be set in the Philippines? “Illustrado,” another novel written by a Filipino and published in the US is set in the Philippines and New York. The young adult novel, “Tall Story” by Filipino-British writer Candy Gourlay and published in London and Manila, has the older brother … Continue reading
Samantha Sotto’s sojourn to ‘Before Ever After’
From Asian Journal: Before Ever After is a modern fairy-tale that asks, ‘What if your happy ending was only the beginning?’ Samantha admits to being so affected, and eventually inspired by the ending of Time Traveller’s Wife. The book for her ended how it was supposed to end, but she personally was kept wondering as … Continue reading
