Poetry longlist announced for National Book Awards
Two former U.S. poets laureate, Louise Glueck and Mark Strand, have made the longlist for the National Book Awards.
September 16, 2014
Two former U.S. poets laureate, Louise Glueck and Mark Strand, have made the longlist for the National Book Awards.
Let’s not call this a “beer run.” That has such a… Friday night frat boy connotation. Let’s instead call this a “beer journey.”
It was a match against Puerto Rico. Up on the bleachers, on the aisle seat, a scrawny, 70-ish Filipino in blue shirt and faded jeans yelled his lungs out: “Gilaaaaaas!” A young Puerto Rican seated on the opposite aisle saw him, heard him, planted himself across the old man, and yelled: “Vamoooos!”
The ongoing exhibit of young artist Pio Abad at the Jorge B. Vargas Museum at the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman might come across as staid, especially for those who saw his splashy silk scarves exhibited at Silverlens last year. Those framed squares of silk told a story of the Marcos regime, using the remnants and trappings of that era.
The Inquirer’s Sept. 6, 2014 issue carried a front page news that aroused my interest. It was about a first successful experiment in “brain-to-brain” contact, or telepathy.
There are 350 million “microcomputers” in your brain. And they are all sending clear messaging, according to Dr. Michael Merzenich in the book “Soft-Wired: How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Can Change Your Life.”
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