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in case you haven't heard:

Arkaye got in. 

And Mo, of course, and Keith and Petra. Not to take anything away from the rest of the people who got in, but I'm telling you: Arkaye's genius should've been recognized ages ago. 

National Artist for Literature and National Writers Workshop Director Emeritus Edith Lopez Tiempo, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, and Silliman University are pleased to announce that the following young writers have been accepted as fellows for the 48th National Writers Workshop scheduled on 4-15 May 2009:

For Poetry

• Mariane Amor Romina T. Abuan (University of Santo Tomas)

• Jonathan S. Gonzales (Ateneo de Manila University)

• Arkaye V. Keirulf (Ateneo de Manila University)

• Patricia Angela F. Magno (Ateneo de Manila University)

• Niño S. Manaog (Ateneo de Manila University)

For Fiction

• Keith Bryan T. Cortez (University of Santo Tomas)

• Ana Margarita Stuart del Rosario (De La Salle University)

• Monique S. Francisco (University of the Philippines - Diliman)

• Russell Stanley Geronimo (De La Salale University)

• Aleck E. Maramag (De La Salle University)

• Gabriel Millado (University of the Philippines – Mindanao)

• Gabrielle L. Nakpil (Ateneo de Manila University)

• Joy C. Rodriguez (University of the Philippines – Mindanao)

For Creative Non-Fiction

• Philip Y. Kimpo Jr. (University of the Philippines - Diliman)

• Marck Ronald Rimorin (University of the Philippines - Baguio)

This year’s panel of critics is composed of Dumaguete-based writers Ernesto Superal Yee, Myrna Peña Reyes, and Cesar Ruiz Aquino, as well as guest panelists Gemino H. Abad, Juaniyo Arcellana, J. Neil C. Garcia, Susan Lara, Rosario Cruz Lucero, DM Reyes, and Alfred Yuson.

The workshop, which is the longest running Writers Workshop in Asia, is coordinated by the Silliman University Department of English and Literature.

Happy Mondays LI

featured readers for the 51th installment of the bi-weekly Happy Mondays Poetry Nights @ mag:net cafe Katipunan TONIGHT, April 20, @mag:net cafe Katipunan are as follows:

1. Arnold Molina Azurin

2. Gemino Abad

3. Marne Kilates

4. Pocholo Goitia

5. Vincent Eviota

6. Angelo Suarez

7. Pancho Villanueva

8. Mia Tijam

9. Carlomar Daoana

10. Keith Cortez

11. Sasha Martinez

12. Andrea Teran

13. Yol Jamendang

14. Lawrence Bernabe

*plus other regular and surprise guest readers.

*readings start promptly at 730 pm followed by the Open Mic sessions @ 930pm-10pm.

*for those interested in reading during the open mic, we will leave a sign-up sheet with Rogel, the bar tender of mag:net cafe. please feel free to sign up and read your work. :)

10pm onwards, Happy Mondays BayawZoundz featuring:

1. Roberto Nicolas

2. Popoy Diokno

3. Khavn

FREE ADMISSION the whole evening. Kitakits po tayo. :)

***

a little Haiku below for the midsummer night's rain. :)

A fork of lightning

staggers the proud sunflowers.

Summer's relenting.

Renga # 20

sci-po #1: a poem about 3:19am

in a few seconds it will be meaningless to say
that time is embodied by all movement. my body
becomes fathomless. my toes are not the sun
but the cold black nothing that envelops it.

the line will comb the planet. the scientists will
record. the journalist will leave his cell and make
for emergency and wakefulness. the bats come out
and drink their breakfast. the honeybee will smell

of rain and futility. because there is no purpose. nothing
to play around with in the garden of a minute. not
even the harness of a child danced with by spirits.
and every hand is as bodiless as a dream. waking up

from pins and needles. from the surge of blood. from
the need to feel alive. this is what we call connection
in the planet Zorg. where all meaning dilates into a single
hole. from where all matter ceases to have certain space.

what you call a heart i call a timeline. and every moment
it throbs, i am getting closer to sleep. you are a clock.
and in a few seconds my world will dazzle itself with the
rich fragrance of new animals waiting to be awakened.

Happy Mondays L

featured readers for the 50th installment of the bi-weekly Happy Mondays Poetry Nights @ mag:net cafe Katipunan TONIGHT, April 6, @mag:net cafe Katipunan are as follows:

1. Allan Pastrana

2. Al Leonidas

3. Panch Alvarez

4. JR Moll

5. Pocholo Goitia

6. Glenn Atanacio

7. Eric Melendez

8. Ken Ishikawa

9. Mikael Co

10. Angelo Suarez

11. Pancho Villanueva

12. Wincy Ong

*plus other regular and surprise guest readers.

*readings start promptly at 730 pm followed by the Open Mic sessions @ 930pm-10pm.

*for those interested in reading during the open mic, we will leave a sign-up sheet with Rogel, the bar tender of mag:net cafe. please feel free to sign up and read your work. :)

10pm onwards, Happy Mondays BayawAkouztikZoundz featuring:

1. Easy Fagela

2. Roberto Nicolas

3. Johnoy Danao

FREE ADMISSION the whole evening. Kitakits po tayo. :)

Renga Que Rico, 2 April 2009

Suppose we were never children

and there are no carousels, no santa clauses,

house lizards-- not dragons, nothing hidden

fireflies merely fireflies in the night. Then

all we could return to was confusion. Imagining

in stead of money and non-magical skies.

There is that pause.

This is that-- pause--

before we want

that thought of clouds

forming fists,

we wanted first rain,

and puddles to splash in,

and maybe a cup of cocoa to keep away the fever-

dreams. But sunlight touches you

now and your fingers search for

the sweet treasures of a flower.

It is night. Sunlight

happened earlier. This is only 

me, imagining. As I did

when I was a child.

-- Sasha, Joel, Pancho V., Waps, Mia, Glenn, Pancho A., Javier, Den, Mikael