Volume 3 Issue 2

2nd Term 2020

Introduction

Dawn Laurente Marfil & Paul Alcoseba Castillo

It wasn’t a year for metaphors. When the world began to burn in January of 2020, the blaze that spread across the…

The Detective in Philippine Detective Fiction: A Defiance of Popular Convention

Ruth Clare G. Torres

When one talks about detective fiction the writers that immediately come to mind are: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha…

Terra Incognita

Ralph Fonte

Nang igapos ako ng mga sinulid ng takot at isinumpa sa paanan ng Alhambra, pumapanaog siya: matandang babae

Limang Tulang Cambodia

John Iremil Teodoro

Sinalubong ng mga pula at puting bulaklak ng lotus, Palangga,

Of Love and Other Attritions: Five Contemporary Mindanao Poems in Translation

Ralph Semino Galán

The bay Is half of a bowl,

Rizal Walks Along The Foxgloves

Eugene Gloria

I looked at the foxgloves and told myself what I needed.

Reversing the Foolish Man and Other Poems

Joel H. Vega

Let us reverse the foolishness of the man who orders the death of the toe-slippered boy,

Suite of Five Poems

Danton Remoto
 

I stand on the sand Finer than any grain

From Tangere

Rodrigo Dela Peña, Jr.

Let the morning come with the birds’ sing-song

Poems from Ecstasy Facsimile

Mark Anthony Cayanan
 

When you turned off the engine, the late birds gossiped in a sinister tongue, and the nausea scurried up his throat:

‘Nak ng PI

Mina Deocareza

Madalas magtaka ang mga kaibigan ko noong noon. Bakit daw ba parang hindi ako mapalagay nang husto sa tuwing lalabas kami at…

Buhok

Chuckberry J. Pascual

Ang sabi ng nanay ko, pangit daw akong baby.

Kuwadro Kara: Apat Na Mukhang Muntik Ko Nang Hindi Mamukhaan

Joselito D. De Los Reyes

Dapat kahapon ko pa ito naisulat. Pagkauwing-pagkauwi sana.

Pumayat, Yumaman, Umibig: Hindi Ako Relihiyoso Pero Espiritwal Akong Tao

U Z. Eliserio

Noong lumalaki ako lahat ng lalake sa paligid ko, nagsisigarilyo at umiinom.

Down the Stretch: Memories of San Lazaro Hippodrome

Jenny Ortuoste

The San Lazaro Hippodrome was set on a property of about 25 hectares in the heart of old Manila, and, like a…

An Edge Between

Popi Laudico

I am born with a tooth in my mouth. Breast feeding is impossibly painful for my mother.

An Unreliable Guide to Climbing Mountains (Or, It’s All Uphill From Here)

Anna Felicia C. Sanchez

When your longtime friends suggest an overnight family trip to a nature reserve, the first thing you find yourself doing is to…

Everyday: The Exquisite Intricate

R. Benedito Ferrão

Suppose I begin with the facts? A boy leaves his childhood home

Ortigas Excursions

Marren Adan

Saan na ba ako dinadala ng aking mga paa?

Mumunting Alipato Ang Mga Bituin Sa Langit

Stefani J. Alvarez

Lulan kami sa isang dyip. Nakahiga sa upuan ang aking kapatid. Duguan.

Nang Walang Nakakarinig

George Deoso

Ang sabi mo noon, P’re, madali lang matutuhan ang C scale sa biyulin.

Indigenous Languages: Literary Freedom and the Opportunity to Exist

Virgilio S. Almario

We come together on a common subject in this Congress, which is language.

A Poetics of the Literary Work

Gémino H. Abad

Let me begin with a general perspective on the mind, language, and the literary work, and end on our country’s literature.

The Walker

Maria Amparo Warren

THE MEMORIES ARE clear, now, of my grandfather, from our time with him in the mountain house in Lalakay.

Mga Bata Sa Selda 43

Rolin Cadallo Obina

Sa pagsisimula ng dula, isang pulang bombilya ang iilaw sa bandang likuran ng entablado kaalinsabay ng pagtunog ng isang sirena, malakas, nakabubulahaw.

Ang Mga Naiwan

Soc Delos Reyes

Pagbukas ng mga ilaw, makikitang may tatlong upuan sa entablado.

An Archipelago of Desire: Alfred Yuson’s Islands of Words & Other Poems

Ma. Ailil B. Alvarez

Only in a poet’s imagination can loneliness be ferried out into the sea

Confidential: HIV/AIDS

Joey A. Tabula

Isang supot ng dalanghita ang pasasalamat Ng nanay mo. Dumadalang na raw kasi

The Editors

The Contributors

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