Submission deadline is on Feb. 25 As the English poet Matthew Arnold said, “Journalism is literature in a hurry.” With today’s fast-paced, digital living, the stress on the word hurry couldn’t be greater. As we are now at the peak of 24/7 news and information, what our world needs these...
From national artists to award-winning actors and drag queens, inspirational words of advice from our local creatives Last year brought us to our knees, yet here we are standing tall with courage, facing 2021 with hope and a positive perspective. To give us more inspiration to create and explore...
Adventures with a capital A, and fantasies with a capital F If you’re looking for reading material come Christmas holidays and are in the mood for riveting literary fiction, here are four weighty recommendations. From adventure on the high seas, to a zany comic-book world, to a current...
The Diamond Jubilarian publishes her first poetry book Lualhati Bautista is one of the awardees of the prestigious 2020 Gawad CCP Para sa Sining, the highest award given by the Cultural Center of the Philippines, but due to the country’s current health situation, the awarding ceremonies will take...
FRUIT OF FUTURE Zac Sarian holding a Florida pummelo If you don’t know Zac Sarian , you don’t know the future. But that’s because the future is—or should be—about a dramatic return to a green planet, where green, live things will soon reclaim what we razed forests to the ground for, what...
It would be hard to write about Efren R. Abueg , foremost fictionist in Filipino, without getting personal. His works, spanning from the seminal short story “ Kamatayan ni Tiyo Samuel ” (Palanca First Prize for Short Story in Filipino in 1967) to the novel Huwag Mong Sakyan ang Buhawi...
Your next great read: a young adult novel about a queer Filipina American teenager There is an often used metaphor in coming-of-age literature and life: turning a new chapter. Or turning a corner. Or something else involving turning towards something, simultaneously suggesting that there will be...
And that’s how American poet Louise Glück won the 2020 Nobel Prize in literature WHAT LUCK Louise Glück's refractions depict the counterpoint between fact and fable It is my mother’s voice you hear or is it only the sound the trees make when the air passes through them because what sound...
American poet Louise Glück was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal,” according to the Swedish Academy. Mats Malm , permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, announced Glück’s Nobel in...
As the beloved cultural icon writes 30 KAY GILDA National Artist for Literature Rio Alma pays tribute to the cultural icon Gilda Cordero-Fernando Just minutes after news of cultural icon Gilda Cordero-Fernando 's passing broke. Rio Alma, National Artist for Literature Virgilio Almario ,...
By TERENCE REPELENTE Language is a tricky thing. To wield it effectively, one has to have had a long relationship with it, a relationship that’s built on innumerable moments of joy and sadness, of pride and even shame, often learning from the words of those who’ve mastered it first. For the...
CHERIE IN THE MOMENT Cherie Gil gives justice to AA Patawaran's poem on nostalgia Do you remember life before the coronavirus? Or even way before that. Before the great urbanization of Manila, when life was arguably much simpler, beautiful, and peaceful? Can you recall the last time you saw...
