+ Follow OUR OWN VOICE Tag
Two other titles (besides Jessica Hagedorns Dream Jungle, reviewed here last week) for which our expatriate writers and editors have recently been responsible give us further reason to rejoice. Both are anthologies of "our own voices."
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804845 [AuthorName] => Alfred A. Yuson [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 212006 [Title] => Adverts for ourselves [Summary] => Well, hoo-hah! This Manila-born-and-bred writer (at least until his mid-20s) has just entered the rolls of Manilas finest. Of honored artists, that is.
On Friday the 20th of June, not so humbly did we stand among the ranks of creative individuals chosen to receive the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan awards as part of the serial activities celebrating the 432nd anniversary of the Noble and Ever Loyal City.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804845 [AuthorName] => Alfred A. Yuson [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 158173 [Title] => On the Fil-Am front [Summary] => Some of our friends among Fil-Am writers have been making waves, as usual. Congratulations are in order.
First off, our longtime buddy Luis Francia has received the 2002 PEN Center Open Award for his book of essays, Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago (Kaya Press, 2001), which we lavished with praise in this space last year.
The New York-based Francia is on a princely roll. A special evening at UCLA has been arranged to celebrate the book and its author on May 2.
[DatePublished] => 2002-04-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804845 [AuthorName] => Alfred A. Yuson [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) ) )
Two other titles (besides Jessica Hagedorns Dream Jungle, reviewed here last week) for which our expatriate writers and editors have recently been responsible give us further reason to rejoice. Both are anthologies of "our own voices."
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804845 [AuthorName] => Alfred A. Yuson [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 212006 [Title] => Adverts for ourselves [Summary] => Well, hoo-hah! This Manila-born-and-bred writer (at least until his mid-20s) has just entered the rolls of Manilas finest. Of honored artists, that is.
On Friday the 20th of June, not so humbly did we stand among the ranks of creative individuals chosen to receive the Patnubay ng Sining at Kalinangan awards as part of the serial activities celebrating the 432nd anniversary of the Noble and Ever Loyal City.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804845 [AuthorName] => Alfred A. Yuson [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 158173 [Title] => On the Fil-Am front [Summary] => Some of our friends among Fil-Am writers have been making waves, as usual. Congratulations are in order.
First off, our longtime buddy Luis Francia has received the 2002 PEN Center Open Award for his book of essays, Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago (Kaya Press, 2001), which we lavished with praise in this space last year.
The New York-based Francia is on a princely roll. A special evening at UCLA has been arranged to celebrate the book and its author on May 2.
[DatePublished] => 2002-04-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804845 [AuthorName] => Alfred A. Yuson [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) ) )
By Alfred A. Yuson | December 3, 2007 - 12:00am