The years of 2020 and 2021 were generally bad years for me as a variety of personal crises, including my … More
Category: Literature
Pag-aakda ng Isla ng Panay Bilang Pook ng Paglaban: Ang mga Binalaybay ni Mayamor / Maya Daniel /Roger Felix Salditos
My article aims to introduce Roger Felix Salditos (1958-2018), a revolutionary martyr, painter, and writer from the Visayas who is … More
Response to Memory, History, and Forgetting: Literature as Antidote
[These are the comments I gave as reactor to the “Ang Unyon ug ang Katawhan Lecture” by Dr. Rose Arong … More
Top Ten Reads of 2019
The year that was had been a hectic one, peppered by worthwhile endeavors and some useless distractions that took away … More
Wala: Mga Tula (2018): E. San Juan Jr.’s post-conceptual interventions
Review of E. San Juan, Jr, Wala (Polytechnic University of the Philippines Press, 2016; revised edition, Philippines Studies Center, 2018). … More
Top Ten Reads of 2018
Last year much of my time was taken up mainly juggling (1) domestic duties, (2) masters thesis proposal writing, (3) … More
Maya Daniel: poet-painter, revolutionary
This was the last Facebook update of Maya Daniel just before Aug. 14 midnight. A few minutes later, he would … More
Adventures at the UPV Main Library, Miag-ao
[This essay is forthcoming in the next issue of Pagbutlak, the official student publication at UP Visayas Miag-ao.] After settling on the … More
Libraries I (Diliman)
The library fee takes a significant portion of the school fees we’re paying in graduate school. This is the biggest reason … More
I Dreamt about the Workshops of the Future
Originally posted on Signals:
North Korean futurist architecture, credits to Koryo Group ,We need workshops that are based on mutual interest,…
Poem: Duta’ng Ginapakig-awayan (with Filipino and English Translations)
Originally posted on mayadanielblog:
? Poem: Duta’ng Ginapakig-awayan with Filipino and English Translations ? Halad sa mga Tumanduk sa Sentral…
5 classic must-read novels about love this February
February is the month of love. Here are 5 classic must-read novels that you can read this month, whether you … More
The Splendor of Portugal (and the Colonization of Angola)
António Lobo Antunes’ Splendor of Portugal is a splendid novel dealing with the ugliness of the Portuguese colonial enterprise in … More
Ilustrado: A Fragmented View from the Apex of Privilege
Criticism of didacticism is common fare when talking of works of literature. Poems or novels must not express political views. … More
Some Thoughts on the Death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I wrote this reflection for the Philippine Online Chronicles. I was reading the final pages of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Of … More
Bombard the Headquarters! 