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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 […]
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Gene Del Carmen’s second book ‘Manny Pacquiao Effect’ is out now
By Maricar CP Hampton Fresh from the successful launch of his first book, “The Pork Bun Heist and Other Stories,” short story writer Gene Del Carmen has published yet another inspiring collection entitled, “The Manny Pacquiao Effect and Other Stories.” “It was not hard to come up with nine fictional stories and one true story […]
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American comic book artist creates FilAm superheroine ‘Rocketgirl’
By Wendell Gaa A comic book series featuring a Filipina American character is something we surely don’t hear of every day, but that is precisely what readers will encounter upon opening the pages to a comic book series called “Rocketgirl.” This series is the birthchild of Manila-based American artist Fred Corder, a proud native of […]
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In autobiography, Eileen Tabios traces ‘intimate scars’ of Philippine history
By M. Earl Smith The genre of autobiography is, astonishingly, one that has not seen a large variance of style. Before fiction and even poetry, we found a need to tell tales of ourselves, through both oral and recorded history. Even the biographical poems (in the Western tradition) that exist are normally not done by […]