As ever, community folks are asking me for Filipino Lit titles, and telling me they wish they could take my … Read More “For Everyone Who’s Asking Me for Fil Am and Fil Diasporic Lit, Who’s Asking Me for my Syllabi, This List of 30 Books is for You”
Dear Brown Girl, This is just to say, motherfuckers love your food! Bon Appetit says the latest craze is popcorn … Read More “Brown Girl Consumed: Filipino Food Poem”
IN THE COUNTRY by Mia Alvar. In these stories, economic inequities and political repressions drive a diaspora of workers and … Read More “#allpinayeverything 2: micro-reviews of 2016-2018 full length pinay and pinxy authored works”
There has been an ongoing theme in many of my poetry and poetics discussions — one of transformation. Much of … Read More “With Praise for the Work of the Poets”
So, in an effort to build upon the crowd sourced listing I’ve been doing, I open up this space to … Read More “#allpinayeverything: micro-reviews of 2016-2017 full length pinay and pinxy authored works”
I have been meaning to sum up my past couple of years of reading and teaching full length volumes of … Read More “My Year (Or Two) Of Reading Poetry”
Hello all, I have crowd sourced many Pinay and Pinxy, non-binary identified writers and students via my trusty social media, … Read More “40 Pinay and Pinxy Books for Gifting!”
I remember once, some years ago, I and other authors came as guest speakers to Willie Perdomo’s VONA Poetry class. … Read More “Dear Poeta, Dear Pinay, Why Do You Want To Write Books?”
You know, it’s been a really good couple of days of literary discussions. The other day, I went into Dean … Read More “How about a good poetics talk: On translation and experimentation in Poeta en San Francisco”
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It takes more than you know you know, more than you think you are capable of. You must be brave, … Read More “How a Brown Girl Makes a Book Happen [Part 6]”