I’VE NEVER thought of myself as anything but young, especially when it came to writing. While I’m already in my mid-thirties, I’m just starting out compared to other writers my age, many of whom have already come out with a book or two. But this personal delusion was pleasantly shattered during the recently concluded UST National Writers Workshop held July 24-30 at Ridgewood Residence Hotel in Baguio City.
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Kara So Kua and Ariane Santos had seen magnetic poetry online and thought that the idea of stringing together tiny magnetic words to create verses seemed fun. They wanted to give it a shot. Although kits weren’t easily available in the Philippines, they were undeterred. They decided to make their own.
Crows have always struck me as sinister creatures. Many years ago, as a young intern in Dacca, I watched a gang of these feathered ruffians obliterate the carcass of a goat in a matter of minutes.
The welcome warmth that wraps the wanderer who seeks a sanctum in its sainted shoals now foists a fervid front of gray-haired “friends” preparing for the pastor’s primal pace to simulate the Savior’s sacrifice.
I worked in Bangkok in the ’70s, and I fell in love with the place forever. Thais are cool. Their soothing manners rubbed off on me like the cool wisp of a eucalyptus leaf.
Ward's "Sing, Unburied, Sing" is a road novel set in Mississippi, revolving around the family life of a 13-year-old boy whose father has just been released from prison.
I learned from Igan D’Bayan’s column in The Star that the great David Medalla was in town. It brought me back to the Ermita days of the ’50s, when some rubble still remained from the bombing of the Ermita-Malate area during the Liberation.
Poland's outstanding poet, translator and dissident and a former Harvard lecturer Stanislaw Baranczak has died at his US home, Poland's leading daily Gazeta Wyborcza said. He was 68.
