A Filipina is International Poet of the Year!
By Alfred A. Yuson | August 1, 2006 - 12:00am
Lovers of literature were particularly intrigued last week by a posting on a Filipina reportedly winning the International Society of Poets’ grand prize in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. "Meet the International...
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Post-coup literary flurry
By Alfred A. Yuson | March 13, 2006 - 12:00am
Surprisingly, the literary scene heats up. It only used to be around August to September that this happens in Manila, and maybe in the summer months when writing workshops are conducted in Baguio, Iligan and Dumaguete....
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Rainbow marvel of ‘Poetry Africa’
By Alfred A. Yuson | October 17, 2005 - 12:00am
DURBAN, South Africa – The Ninth Poetry Africa Festival 2005 held here from Oct. 10 to 15 has certainly been the most dynamic, delightful, and thoroughly engaging poetry event I’ve participated in.
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Prose, poetry, and Rio Alma’s ‘Memo Mulang Gimokudan’
By Rebecca T. Añonuevo   | March 20, 2005 - 12:00am
This Week’s Winner
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Poetry in orangeland
By Alfred A. Yuson | June 28, 2004 - 12:00am
(Part 2) Whew. Good thing the Czechs continued their surprising run with a come-from-behind win over the luckless Germans in the Euro Cup 2004 elims, and Holland won over Latvia to squeak through to the quarterfinals....
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In the company of broad shoulders
By Alfred A. Yuson | April 5, 2004 - 12:00am
CHICAGO – Imagine a score-strong company of Filipino poets and writers conjoining together, or dispersing among hundreds of American writers and academics of all stripes, shapes, and sizes. Place them in a grand...
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Does poetry’s arrogance matter?
By Alfred A. Yuson | September 22, 2003 - 12:00am
Irreplaceable has been the Internet as much for instant communication as the unexpected jewels we find in our electronic mailboxes.
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World poetry and the literary month
By Alfred A. Yuson | August 11, 2003 - 12:00am
The publicaion and release of a veritable canon of poetry this week leads off the literary month of August, when we traditionally enjoy a confluence of activities pertaining to books and writers.
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Jewels from a poetry confab
By Alfred A. Yuson | August 26, 2002 - 12:00am
As of this writing, half of the sessions of the Asia-Pacific Conference-Workshop on Indigenous and Contemporary Poetry (Aug. 20 to 24) have papered on into the great beyond of posterity. To mix metaphors, it has...
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Heavenly books by ‘men of letters’
By Alfred A. Yuson | July 15, 2002 - 12:00am
Formidable members of the local writing community met with cultural counsellor M.J. Sabeti Sanat and cultural researcher Dr. Bahman Samadi of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran last Thursday evening.
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