For Poet Rado Gatchalian and singer Rene Tinapay, the best way to learn a language is through verse and song. Desire for Filipinos: 'Don't forget your roots' Music and arts play a big part in ...

I can’t be happier for my young friend Joel M. Toledo, poet and literature teacher at Miriam College, also the percussionist for the music band of fellow-poets, Los Chupacabras. As far as I’m ...

Are Jose Corazon de Jesus and Florentino Collantes turning in their graves? Is Alejandro Abadilla furious at the present state of Tagalog free verse? No doubt Rolando Tinio will rejoice at the ...

What’s the Balagtasan’s relevance to young Filipinos? Consider that the spirited tradition, named after the Spanish colonial era’s great Filipino poet Francisco Balagtas, and pioneered by Jose Corazon ...

“The challenge in writing poetry is how to describe the current situation, history in very few lines.” Reagan Maiquez Source: supplied Reagan Maiquez “Ilang Sandali Makalipas ang Huling Araw ng Mundo” ...

New Orleans poet Randy Gonzales explores the history of Louisiana’s 19th- and early 20th-century Filipino communities in his new collection of poems, "Settling St. Malo." Gonzales, of Filipino descent ...

In response to Yolanda’s devastation, Filipino poets in the Philippines and the diaspora rallied to create a fundraising anthology MANILA, Philippines – Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) was the largest ...

Dubai, UAE: As part of its ongoing efforts to promote global literature and culture, the Mohammed Bin Rashid Library organised a special literary evening to celebrate Filipino culture. The event ...

Live music and spoken word poetry filled Coffee Lab Evanston Saturday afternoon as residents and students gathered to celebrate Filipino American History Month. A collaboration between Kitchen Table ...

Four hand-written letters, four poems and four sketches, composed within 30 minutes, had been packed and are on their way for distribution to cancer patients in the UAE. Fact is, one of the poems is ...