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The poetry form ‘Hay(na)ku’ on its 15th birthday
By Eileen R. Tabios In 2018, the “hay(na)ku”, a tercet-based poetic form, will celebrate its 15th year anniversary. While I created the form, it received its name from Vince Gotera who had co-founded (with Nick Carbo) the Flips Listserve where I introduced the form (the Listserve was for those interested in Filipino literature). The hay(na)ku’s […]
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Voices of a movement in ‘A Time to Rise’
By Renee Macalino Rutledge From our first wave of immigrants, the manongs of the 1920s and ’30s who risked their jobs and safety fighting exploitative labor conditions on West Coast farms, Filipinos have been politically active in the U.S. Yet the dominant image of the passively assimilated Filipino prevails. “A Time to Rise: Collective Memoirs […]
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A poem a day in April: Powerful messages to the world
By Neil Leadbeater April is National Poetry Month in the United States. Started by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, it is the largest literary celebration in the world that marks poetry’s important place in American culture and society. Its goals are to highlight the extraordinary legacy and on-going achievement of American poets, to […]
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Once, my life intersected with V.C. Igarta
By Eileen R. Tabios In my last few years living in New York City — before moving to San Francisco about 18 years ago — I spent time with Venancio C. “V.C.” Igarta, the foremost artist of the Manong generation. By the time I met him through an introduction by poet Luis Cabalquinto, he had […]
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Directory of FilAm artists is coming out in 2018
The Filipino American Artist Directory is scheduled to launch in February 2018. The directory is a living archive and annual publication dedicated to artists of Filipino heritage living and working between the United States and the Philippines, with particular focus on artists based in the Midwest and South, according to St. Louis-based artist Janna Añonuevo […]
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Rodrigo Duterte will declare martial law next year: journalist
By Cristina DC Pastor President Rodrigo Duterte is methodically laying the groundwork for one-man rule next year, an influential journalist said in New York on October 20. “Duterte is not yet a dictator, but he is moving in that direction,” said investigative journalist Raissa Robles who is in the U.S. to promote her third book, […]
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Magical wings and mail-order brides in Renee Macalino Rutledge’s debut novel
By Sara Campos Like many western fairy tales, “The Hour of Daydreams” opens with Malaya, a distraught girl who’s been left motherless. But unlike many of those traditional tales, this novel explores the myths and truths of a mother’s departure. Debut novelist Renee Macalino Rutledge draws from a Filipino folk tale and weaves two skeins […]
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Digging, finding the gems in Eileen Tabios’ collection of poetry
By T. C. Marshall Eileen R. Tabios’ prolific flow of books has presented all kinds of gems and demonstrated an ability to write from many angles, often within one collection. This book purports to be “An Archaeology” of or about “Manhattan.” That’s a new angle for her, and in her typical way she does archaeology […]
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Mother Tongues: Celebrating children’s books in different Philippine languages
Can children’s books spark language renewal? Can they strengthen a child’s Filipino-American identity and self-esteem? These are questions that Sari-Sari Storybooks hopes to affirm with the release of three Philippine picture books this Fall. Together with The Filipino School of New York-New Jersey, Sari-Sari Storybooks will kick off a U.S. book tour of these three […]