
Poem for the Day: Carlos Bulosan, “If You Want to Know What We Are”
If you want to know what we are who inhabit forest mountain rivershore, who harness beast, living steel,…

Poem for today: Carlos Bulosan, “I Want the Wide American Earth”
Before the brave, before the proud builders and workers, I say I want the wide American earth, Its…

Aswang Poetics, Continued
Continuing thoughts on Aswang Poetics. Who created the word, “unfuckwithable,” because that’s so much of what this is…

Why Aswang Poetics?
In 2010, my third book, Diwata, was published by BOA Editions, Ltd. The closing poem of Diwata is “Aswang,” which I wrote,…
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