Ambit's Gambit (Albert B. Casuga Literary Blog)

Ambit's Gambit is Albert B. Casuga's blog for his poetry, fiction, essays, literary theory, literary criticism, art criticism, and commentary on life, living, and the human condition.

Friday, November 27, 2009

UPDATE: JUAN L. MERCADO, PHILIPPINE JOURNALIST PAR EXCELLENCE, VIEWS MAGUINDANAO MASSACRE IN LIGHT OF ADVENT AND EID UL ADHA

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SOME 27 JOURNALISTS AND 30 CIVILIANS PERISH IN POLITICAL POWERFPLAY Updating the Massacre of 57 (as of this count) Filipino journalists and ...

TO KILL THE MOCKING BOOK AND ETHNIC ENTITLEMENTS: TWO ISSUES WITH THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL BOARD

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If there are two issues I would like to address with great urgency, such that I would do a Cromwell or a Trudeau and storm the Parliaments o...

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

MILA D. AGUILAR: FILIPINO PROTEST POET ON THE MAGUINDANAO MASSACRE

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PROTEST POETRY ALIVE AND WELL Over the weekend, a group of some 46 Filipino journalists and political sympathizers of Ismael Mangundadatu w...

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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

TAKING STOCK 2 (PART 3): The Third Decade of my Exile

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TAKING STOCK 2 (PART 3): The Third Decade of my Exile It occurs to me now that the cycle my life followed in the Philippines is quite simila...

Sunday, November 22, 2009

TAKING STOCK 2 (Part 2): WRITING POTBOILERS

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WHO IS AFRAID OF THE YEAR 2000 AND BEYOND? ( Click on the image to read through the monograph) I am. Afraid. Look for shudders below. (Meant...

Saturday, November 21, 2009

TAKING STOCK 2: (PART 1): HOW I SURVIVED MY EXILE

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TAKING STOCK 2. (PART 1) How I survived as an Immigrant worker, Writer in Exile, and Academic Manque 1980. That’s when I left the Philippine...

Monday, November 2, 2009

A WRITER'S NOTEBOOK: ON "BASURA DAYS"

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A WRITER’S NOTEBOOK: ON “BASURA DAYS” My daily constitutional is a three-kilometre walk to my daughter’s house where, by noontime, I...

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

A NEW POEM FOR ALL THE OLD FRIENDS

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BASURA DAYS (Sa atin din may Wasteland) FOR ALL THE OLD FRIENDS (For Cesar Leyco Aguila in Australia and Isagani R. Cruz who advocates this ...

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

A NEW POEM BY FRANCISCO R. ALBANO, OSB

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CHOSEN I chose a ministry of service and applied. Silence rejected me – a long dumbfounding silence Of sky, of unplanted seeds, and untapped...

Friday, October 16, 2009

TAKING STOCK 1: I OWE ALEJANDRINO G. HUFANA MY BEING A POET

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In the previous entry, “Taking Stock”, I intimated a pause from writing, pleading “weariness” in a verse from Ecclesiastes : “All things are...

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ALBERT B. CASUGA: ALBERT B. CASUGA, a Philippine-born writer, lives in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, where he continues to write poetry, fiction, and criticism after his retirement from teaching and serving as an elected member of his region's school board. He was nominated to the Mississauga Arts Council Literary Awards in 2007. A graduate of the Royal and Pontifical University of St. Thomas (now University of Santo Tomas, Manila. Literature and English, magna cum laude), he taught English and Literature (Criticism, Theory, and Creative Writing) at the Philippines' De La Salle University and San Beda College. He has authored books of poetry, short stories, literary theory and criticism. He has won awards for his works in Canada, the U.S.A., and the Philippines. His latest work, A Theory of Echoes and Other Poems was published February 2009 by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House. His fiction and poetry were published by online literary journals Asia Writes and Coastal Poems recently. He was a Fellow at the 1972 Silliman University Writers Workshop, Philippines. As a journalist, he worked with the United Press International and wrote an art column for the defunct Philippines Herald.

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