, December 05, 2024

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  Nov 25, 2024

‘Huwag Mo Akong Iiwan.’ Why is Vice President Sara Duterte Madly Protective of Her Chief of Staff and Why Should We Care?

Without a doubt, Lopez enjoys a level of trust that is boundless. It is now being tested not only by the vagaries of politics but the higher principles of transparency and accountability.

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  Nov 16, 2024

At the QuadComm Hearing, Duterte Tries to Kill Time

Reminders of mortality have failed to elicit from Duterte even a hint of contrition

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  Aug 18, 2024

How to Handle the Hydra That Is Social Media. Hire it

As Ulysses has learned, you can't handle the many-headed monster without help. Before you can circulate or subjucate, you must understand social media

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  Aug 11, 2024

The Lifespan of Messages: News and Its Living, Breathing Nature

“Messages have form and feel, occupying space in the mind of the customer. They barge in, survive, and then die. The lifespan of messages can be augmented or truncated”

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  Jun 10, 2024

Welcome to the Algorithm Nation

For the first time since 2022, the pro-Marcos content is up against an opposition in this virtual nation. It might not be an opposition we agree with, it might not even be a “real” opposition to us, but in this community that this algorithm builds, it is what nation looks like.

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  Apr 24, 2024

A Lasting Bond in Fire and Steel

“A lasting bond in fire and steel was forced among the men and women lawyers who stood up to question whether we were really a country of 40 million cowards and one son of a bitch, plus one bitch, as it were.” 

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  Aug 07, 2024

Marne Kilates: Music Man, Activist, and Poet Laureate of Nice

There are people who suck the oxygen out from a room. Marne is different. He lights up a room with his presence, bringing light and air

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  Jul 27, 2024

The Mind and Heart of Marne Kilates in Poetry

"We go places but we never leave." — Marne Kilates

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  Nov 07, 2024

Han Kang: Innovative South Korean Author Wins the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature

Listen to the recording of the call from Nobel informing her of her win

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  Oct 24, 2024

What the Child Cannot Learn From Books

A poem about boys flailing at the world

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  Oct 01, 2024

Crafting Poems that Speak to Both You and Your Audience

The process of crafting effective, resonant poetry becomes a form of self-reflection, allowing you to explore your own thoughts and emotions in a way that's both therapeutic and fulfilling.

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  Aug 20, 2024

Lush Life

By Marne Kilates

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  Aug 12, 2024

Marne Kilates: Poet, Editor, Translator and My Mentor

"I think we had the best part of Marne Kilates, his best years."

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  Aug 02, 2024

Pieces of Home

Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez, poet, author and former advertising copywriter, now resides in Canada. She writes about the upheaval that is migration.

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  Jun 23, 2024

The Alchemy of Lasa

A Filipino author, poet and former advertising copywriter writes about the “bravado in the way we orchestrate our flavors.”

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  Jun 15, 2024

How Allen Ginsberg’s Poems About Madness Helped Change Psychiatry

The cultural impact of Ginsberg’s poetry on psychiatry was profound... The change was that madness and mental illness should not just be shut away and silenced. There’s a human experience there.

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  Dec 05, 2024

Toto, Steely Dan and that Yacht Rock Genre Crap

To the younger generation, that’s tito or lolo music. Might as well mention Gregorian chants and madrigals. But heck, kids, that’s part of my generation’s music, so be kind.

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  Jun 08, 2024

TRAVEL LIGHT by Pete Jimenez

"Take nothing for the journey - keep it simple; no bag, no bread, no money"

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  Oct 11, 2023

Anxiety Can Often Be a Drag on Creativity, Upending the Trope of the Tortured Artist

Anxiety is a roadblock, not an instigator of creativity

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  Nov 12, 2024

Book Review: The Mysterious Impact of Music on the Brain and Body

While there is no cure for Alzheimer’s, study shows that music can, at least temporarily, loosen the disease’s grip.

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  Aug 16, 2022

The Mountain that Grew

The Latest from Krip Yuson: An illustrated allegory for young adults and above.

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  Jun 16, 2022

Living in Times of Unrest: Bart Pasion and the Philippine Revolution

Ambag ang libro ni E.C. Tadem sa pagtutuwid at paghahayag sa salimuot ng kasaysayan ng ating lipunan.

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  Aug 05, 2024

So Much Ado About... 'Nevermind'

I know of no word that adequately captures the humph it has when I banish a bother or forgo a pleasure; the sigh when I resign myself to a reality, say, the quagmire that is the politics of this country.

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  Apr 28, 2023

Politics for Dummies

Our choice of leaders is informed by our political sophistication - or our lack of it. And oftentimes, we get it wrong.

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  Apr 20, 2023

The Power Fist

Tiger Woods did it. Novak Djokovic does it. Olympians do it. What’s with this phenomenon called fist pumping - an almost obscene gesture not unlike someone giving you the finger?

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  Feb 24, 2023

Booksale, Converted Vans and UK (Ukay-Ukay)

The Ukay-ukay is the premier hand-me-down - UK for short. The name itself is nothing to crow about - in fact it’s degrading and undeserving of the high regard that the Salvation Army puts on it.

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  Dec 02, 2024

Continuing Animal Welfare Work: Save ALL Feeds the Hungry, Educates Humans on the Law Against Animal Cruelty

Eleven years ago, Save Animals of Love and Light- Save ALL saved 36 dogs and cats from being killed or euthanized in a pound.

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  Nov 18, 2024

Book Review: How Much Can Animals Really Communicate?

Knowing exactly what animals are “saying” is less important than trying to understand why they are communicating at all.

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  Nov 27, 2021

'Island Life'

A Christmas Ritual in this Poor Country

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  Jun 27, 2021

Thus Said the Lourd

Thus Said the Lourd

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  Jun 19, 2021

Ayoko Na Sa 'Yo

Ayoko Na Sa 'Yo

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  Jun 17, 2021

From the Hand and Heart of Robert Alejandro

From the Hand and Heart of Robert Alejandro

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