Monday, November 30, 2009

FICTION: COMING HOME

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(For archival purposes, this short story by Albert B. Casuga is being posted as part of the September 2009 post on A Harvest of Tales) I’m ...
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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...