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6 months

Received complimentary copies of Hulagway: Empire and Emporia earlier this week. I have a suite of erasure poems here based on the essays of 19th century photographer Felix Laureano, specifically those on bodies of water and bathing. Grateful to be part of such bold project.

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@JLaneria

2 years

A former student asked for Martial Law resources. She prefers PDFs. She said physical copies of certain books might become dangerous soon. I reminded her of library purges last year. Resharing the Aswang sa Aklatan link

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Translated Refaat Alareer ( @itranslate123 )’s poem ‘If I must die’ into Filipino. Will ask friends if they could to translate it into Hiligaynon and Kinaray-a. @TranslfromGaza

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3 years

Paano sumusulat ng tula ang isang ina? Panakaw, ‘yan ang sagot. -Luna Sicat Cleto

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2 years

And in the end, Tár treats the Philippines precisely like one of these masseuses: it is interchangeable, it doesn’t exist in its own right, and is only a stand-in for the guilt attached to events elsewhere.

The Lesbian Allure and Colonial Unconscious of Todd Field’s Tár

Tár begins with the sounds of unseen forest, a buzz of insects and birdcalls that backs the voice of Shipibo-Conibo...

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@JLaneria

1 year

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o:

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@JLaneria

1 year

“Colonialism is a system. It doesn’t matter if you’re carrying a gun or a Bible, you’re still a colonialist.” Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

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@JLaneria

11 months

Refaat Alareer’s poem ‘If I must die’ in Hiligaynon, translated by Jhio Jan Navarro. @TranslfromGaza

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@JLaneria

3 years

Another quote from Berger, “You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”

𝔢𝔩𝔢𝔠𝔱𝔯𝔬𝔪𝔦𝔩𝔨

@electromilc

3 years

John Berger - The Ways of Seeing

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@JLaneria

2 years

I co-translated a poem by Mark Dorado, now up at Issue 26 of @FourWayReview

Four Way Review

@FourWayReview

2 years

Spring has sprung, and with its arrival comes our 26th issue!! Chock full of poems, stories, translations, an interview, and artwork for your reading and viewing pleasure!! #poetry #fiction #translation #art #interview #litmag #readingcommunity

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“Cuba is a victim of magical realism,” said John Kirk, “The idea that Cuba, with only 11 million people, and limited income, could be a biotech power, might be incomprehensible for someone working at Pfizer, but for Cuba it is possible.”

Cuba’s vaccine success story sails past mark set by rich world’s Covid efforts

The island nation struggles to keep the lights on but has inoculated 90% of its population with home-developed vaccines

www.theguardian.com

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@JLaneria

3 years

Ang ganda. Story book about Tumandok astrological knowledge. Created by talented friends. Will be available online soon.

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@JLaneria

3 years

Elections happen every three years, thousands leave everyday. PetiB misconception of both elections and labor migration

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@JLaneria

2 years

@sannytbreak Magandang study ‘to. Pre-pandemic yata ang fieldwork. Things siempre, got worse.

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@JLaneria

2 years

Under Marcos Jr. this year, a rebel-poet, Ericson Acosta, was killed. Last year...Acosta’s wife, the rebel-poet Kerima Tariman, was killed. For a country whose national hero is a poet, such murders are no small irony — nor a great surprise. Gina Apostol

Let the Knife Speak: On José Rizal | Los Angeles Review of Books

Gina Apostol explores the works and cultural meanings of the great Filipino rebel-poet José Rizal.

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@JLaneria

2 years

To say colonization is a part of history is to give it constructive value. In actuality, colonization is not a moment in history but a process of destruction. It is the permanent negation of all that is pre-existing. ⁦ @TheFunambulist_ ⁩

Time and the Colonial State

TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH BY CHANELLE ADAMS When the colonial power builds a railway, it does not only colonize space, it also colonizes time. Meryem-Bahia Arfaoui describes the relationship between...

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@JLaneria

1 year

Filipino translation by Amado Anthony G. Mendoza & Mark Laurence D. Garcia. Open access at SWF-UPD

meki

@mekitron

1 year

wiji thukul is indonesia's greatest protest poet. he was disappeared in early 1998 for his activism to bring down the murderous orde baru regime. his whereabouts is still unknown. this is one of my favourite poems of his. i've translated it for the people of palestine. ✊🍉🇵🇸

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1 year

Another one for International Translation Day, my Filipino translation of Kei Miller’s ‘What The Mapmaker Ought to Know’ in the last issue of Salin Journal.

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@JLaneria

1 year

The revised version of my book review on Land and Life is included in the latest issue of Pingkian, among very impressive company. Congrats to the editorial team, thanks to @OneDividesToTwo for the invitation to submit.

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@JLaneria

3 years

Excellent article by @OneDividesToTwo in Daluyan: Journal ng Wikang Filipino on the life and works of revolutionary poet Mayamor, and the landmark collection translated by Kerima Tariman.

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@JLaneria

2 years

The outdated belief that the Ifugao Terraces are 2,000 years old has prevented us from seeing how the earlier generation of Ifugaos had used their ingenuity and indigeneity in resisting Spanish colonization.

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@JLaneria

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...the familiar alarm that nothing has changed is a comfort in having newfound words to understand our current social condition; a realization that the answers we are looking for may already exist, just hidden away in archives and libraries and journals.

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@JLaneria

11 months

Please get this book, for yourself and for your loved ones. Unbecoming by Angeli Lacson (Paper Trail Projects, 2023) @cuddlyplant

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@JLaneria

1 year

Let me tell you about the movement The revolutionary twists and turns The flow as well as the ebb Not only my strengths but my vacillations. No romance. Only the resolute capacity to overcome.

Rappler

@rapplerdotcom

1 year

Poet, essayist, and activist Mila Aguilar died on Friday, October 13 at the age of 74, her son Doy Roque announced on social media on Saturday, October 14.

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@JLaneria

1 year

One of Kill Joy’s murals in Iloilo City, somewhere in Mandurriao.

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@JLaneria

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In my art practice, I’ve realized what I truly aim for in my art: solidarity with groups and causes that I believe in and want to lend my work towards. Kill Joy, ⁦ @Purveyr ⁩

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2 years

The Human Rights Violations Victims’ Memorial Commission is a government agency. It is protected by law, says Crisanto, “but it can be starved”. Its budget is reviewed annually by Congress.

Archivists rush to preserve records of atrocities under Ferdinand Marcos Sr

Survivors fear documents may vanish when Philippine dictator’s son assumes office after election victory

www.theguardian.com

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@JLaneria

3 years

Being a mother is so romanticized, and so its labor, the maintenance labor, is made invisible. People also want to romanticize writing and make it not labor so they don’t have to view writers as workers. Writers are, of course, workers.

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@JLaneria

2 years

The joke being: I left my country so that I may study my country in a vast, cold country that gives money to the men who are the very reason I left my country.

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@JLaneria

2 years

Kaya’t huwag pagmalupitan, Itong bihag na kataga. Sa halip ay pagdamutan, Itong tulisang talinhaga. Isa-isa kong pupulutin Ang mga tula kong nagkalat, Habang binabawi ang lakas Dito sa inatrasang gubat. Kerima Lorena Tariman collected poems, from @GantalaPress

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@JLaneria

3 years

We need to blur the distinctions between who we are as artists and who we are as wage workers, laborers, etc., lines that make us think we are immune to our country’s shared oppression.

Alfonso Manalastas 🇵🇸

@not_alfonso

3 years

I have a new essay up on @PhilstarNews ! Here, I talk about the national artist award, the 2022 elections, and the participation and complicity of artists in the myth-making of public officials.

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@JLaneria

2 years

She rolled on her back to show me her scar. Playing dead, she showed me her spaying scar. I have one of those, I said, but mine is perpendicular. Little princess, I too have been opened with a crowbar. @dlseuss , in @AGNIMagazine

Ballad That Ends with Bitch | AGNI Online

She was one of those long-nosed ones. / Mary, full of grace, cream atop the milk. / I picked my way through dung piles and bones. / Animal dung. Animals of every ilk.

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@JLaneria

11 months

I have translations of May Morales Dolis and Jaku Mata in the latest issue of @MPTmagazine . Mata’s poem could be read online,

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@JLaneria

1 year

The Philippines is a place in which everyone is born already wanting to leave, poisoned as it is by centuries of overlapping occupation. Spain, Japan, America. Nations are landscapes that capitalize on longing. Louie Leyson ( @aswangpoem )

Glossary for an Aswang by Louie Leyson | CBC Books

Louie Leyson has won the 2023 CBC Nonfiction Prize for Glossary for an Aswang.

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@JLaneria

2 years

Trying this for the first time. 2022 writing round up. For a year that has been hazy due to day to day (not to mention paycheck to paycheck) existence, I have been somewhat productive.

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2 years

Edmond Jabès was right when he critiqued Theodor Adorno's dictum: It isn't that after horror we should not or cannot write poetry. It's that, while we are integral witnesses to horror, we must write poetry differently. —Cristina Rivera Garza, translated by Sarah Booker

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@JLaneria

3 years

Bookmail from @FLP_books

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@JLaneria

2 years

Deleter could have extended its critique of how labor from the Global South is often caught in this shadow of internet technology, how the thin line between moderation and censorship figures in a space replete with propaganda and disinformation,

‘Deleter’ review: Come for the techno-horror, stay for Nadine Lustre

Spoiler alert! Mikhail Red's award-winning MMFF entry, in a sense, 'situates us in the nightmares of the corporate world and digital age.'

www.rappler.com

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@JLaneria

1 year

Four more amazing books read this year so far. Great year for poetry.

Susan Pigman 📚

@1SusyQ

1 year

The best four books I’ve read so far this year (not counting rereads)

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@JLaneria

11 months

Feminism allows us to see these dead exchanges of care and arms as a reproductive issue: the trading of the life worth expending of many for the life deserving of care of some. Neferti Tadiar

positions journal

@peacc

11 months

New on praxis in positions politics, Neferti Tadiar, On Feminism and Palestine

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1 year

“Colonialism is a system. It doesn’t matter if you’re carrying a gun or a Bible, you’re still a colonialist.” Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: three days with a giant of African literature

The long read: The Kenyan novelist’s life and work has intersected with many of the biggest events of the past century. At 85, he reflects on his long, uncompromising life in writing

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@JLaneria

3 years

Apostol evokes “reading’s endlessly replenishable boon.” She also wisely recognizes the limits of living for words alone.

Craving Books, Sex and Revolution (Published 2022)

Gina Apostol’s novel “Bibliolepsy” revisits the final years of the Marcos dictatorship in the Philippines.

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@JLaneria

1 year

Misreadings are really potent in a colonized history, because the heroes that you love, of course, are the ones actually created by your enemies. Gina Apostol, @electriclit

The (Mis)Translation of Filipino History - Electric Literature

Gina Apostol’s novel “La Tercera” blurs the line between traitors and heroes to ask hard questions about complicity

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@JLaneria

2 years

Very important project. From the new issue of BANWAAN: The Philippine Journal of Folklore,

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@JLaneria

2 years

Translating has made me feel less precious about the idea of ‘voice’ as some sort of essential, abiding force. It’s made me feel not just more porous as a poet but more interested in porousness... @robin_ep_myers in @MinorLits

“Translating both invites and challenges you to inventiveness, to freedom within constraints”: An...

Robin Myers is a poet and translator who lives in Mexico City. With a translation of Andrés Neuman’s Bariloche recently published by Open Letter Books, and Isabel Zapata’s In Vitro, from Coffee Hou…

minorliteratures.com

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@JLaneria

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Seven out of ten lands have no song Seven out of ten songs have no scent Seven out of ten scents have no tears Angelo Suarez

Seven out of ten farmers have no land – Philippines Graphic

Seven out of ten lands have no song Seven out of ten songs have no scent Seven out of ten scents have no tears Seven out of ten tears have no words Seven out of

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Tariman’s blunt poetry refuses to hide behind metaphors, relying instead on reality’s details to express the circumstances of the agrarian population. @ArtReview_

Unapologetically Political Art: Resistance Fighter and Poet Kerima Tariman

A tribute to the Filipino communist rebel who understood the revolutionary power of artistic expression

artreview.com

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@JLaneria

1 year

forthcoming poems in @vvpoetryhk updated bio includes announcement for next year, with @FlowerSongPress

vvpoetry

@vvpoetryhk

1 year

Eric Abalajon's “Speaking Test” and “Trip To The World’s Fair” will be included in OUTSIDERS. Eric is a lecturer at the University of the Philippines Visayas, Iloilo. His debut poetry collection is forthcoming from Flowesong Press. He lives near Iloilo City.

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@JLaneria

3 years

Poetry was always a dialogue with the dead. It was always interlingual but the establishment buffoons of US poetry want to keep the foreign languages out, want to keep death out. They dream about a noiseless communication of the soul. @action__books

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@JLaneria

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@TranslfromGaza Refaat Alareer’s poem ‘If I must die’ in Kinaray-a, translated by Carla Faith Aquino. @TranslfromGaza

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@JLaneria

2 years

mula sa ‘Anatomiya ng Antolohiya: Interbensiyonal na Pagsipat sa Politika at Ideolohiya ng Piling Antolohiyang Pampanitikan ng mga Iskolar ng Rehiyon’ ni Michael Francis Andrada

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@JLaneria

3 years

Tupas, according to the detainees, then approached the PDEA agents, and they overheard her telling them, "Staff ko ni Inday Sara, unsa ni sir? (I'm a staff of Sara, what's this about, sir?)"

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@JLaneria

3 years

Thankful to receive complimentary copies of @LIKHAAN special issues. Both Vols. 3 & 4 too, when I only have a piece in the former. Plus freebies. Wrote about the bloody raid against the Tumandok in Central Panay towards the end of 2020, with the violence spilling over into 2021.

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@JLaneria

3 years

Recognizing the historical role of education as a site of erasure, colonialism, and global white supremacy is enough to raise eyebrows when confronted with the kinds of gaps that exist in Harvard’s curriculum. But the reality is much worse.

Scars of Empire: Harvard’s Role in U.S. Colonialism in the Philippines | Opinion | The Harvard...

Scars of Empire: Harvard’s Role in U.S. Colonialism in the Philippines | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

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@JLaneria

3 years

'White innocence, along with social forgetting, have functioned to hide the central role of race and empire in Dutch nation building.' @saramsalem in @TheFunambulist_

Confronting Whiteness and Colonial Legacies in the Netherlands

In this text, Sara Salem exposes the colonial genealogy of present racism (in particular anti-Blackness) in the Netherlands. From Java to Suriname via South Africa and more…

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@JLaneria

2 years

First @dlseuss book. Want to share everything, but will settle with this section in Stateline Pastoral. @GraywolfPress

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@JLaneria

1 year

The visual language of advertising pushes us to see the world through the lens of mimetic desire and jealousy; everything, under the ubiquitous, inescapable touch of commerce, becomes glamour, becomes publicity, becomes commodity. @anothergaze

Rebecca Liu on ‘Barbie’

The idea that femininity is a performance that alienates the subject from herself has gained even greater ground in the...

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@JLaneria

2 years

Maikling book review lang ng Land and Life: The Tumandok People of Panay and Their Struggle, prepared by the Iloilo Legal Assistance Center, with support from the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy

Forms of Solidarity in Land and Life: The Tumandok People of Panay and Their Struggle

Reflecting on the Tumandok massacre of December 30 2020, I wrote elsewhere that the incident didn’t register very long in the public’s consciousness because of the fatigue from scandals and several…

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@JLaneria

3 years

“We remember them because our families continue to feel the pain. They are victims of state violence. The perpetrators have escaped justice until now while many human rights defenders and progressive organizations continuously face threats and repression,”

Grieving never stops for kin of EJK victims | Inquirer News

Clarissa Ramos could only light and offer a candle virtually for her slain husband and human rights lawyer Benjamin “Ben” Ramos Jr. on All Souls’ Day.

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@JLaneria

3 years

I have poems in Issue 2 of @ProvenanceJourn . Theme is on Asian history, I wrote about how history migrates and is mediated, the Kidapawan Massacre via social media and the Philippine-American War via photographs by F.T. Neely.

Provenance Journal ⏳ ISSUE 5

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ISSUE 02: ASIA OUT NOW! 💖 Ft. @oormilaprahlad // @SabinaYWong // @cbstrange1 // @kalousta1 // Eric Abalajon // Shujaat Mirza // Singular Poet // Mozid Mahmud // Maija Haavisto // Sandra Salinas-Newton // Sreekanth Kopuri // Aishwarya Khale READ HERE:

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@JLaneria

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Interview Notes on Mga Migranteng Sandali

A few days ago, I spoke to a class of senior high students about my zine Mga Migranteng Sandali. I couldn’t help chuckling while typing that sentence. Since releasing the zine in October, it has be…

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@JLaneria

3 years

Read these over the weekend to convince myself I deserve the new Pao-Yu Ching title from @FLP_books , also The Great Debate collection

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Behind the fierce gun my body might be decimated but my emotions will not. They will make you think. Then, write, write my unwritten poem. -Captain Vaanati, trans. Meena Kandasamy

Twelve Poems by Female Fighters

Translated by Muna Gurung, Meena Kandasamy, and Jessica Rainey.

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The building is now mostly in disrepair, damaged by Typhoon Ulysses in 2020 and closed for more than two years because of the coronavirus pandemic before reopening in February.

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Settlerscapes necessitate erasure of not only the native inhabitants, but also of their crimes against them, and depend, therefore, on institutionalized forgetting, which is labeled as culture to act as a proxy for their power. ⁦ @TheFunambulist_ ⁩

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3 years

Cover art and lay-out by @totorres_art , rendered from a photo of Alfred Tennyson Neely. More background and download link for the chapbook available here,

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My tired past sits alone with a blank look on its face. The fortuneteller returns and digs up dirt where my past is sitting, saying there should not be a seat there. Yi Sang

"Fortunetelling" by Yi Sang

from "Yi Sang: Selected Works" published by Wave Books

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For ⁦ @dlseuss ⁩ the sonnet is also something like a rental car: a borrowed vehicle that allows you to visit life’s disappointments (which are often, even as disappointments, disappointing).

Kamran Javadizadeh · On Diane Seuss

Perhaps by making pain formal, or rendering it as a joke, Diane Seuss also makes it tolerable. If frank: sonnets is...

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@glennndiaz Everyone in attendance to that party tbh

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If Not Us, Who?, a new edited volume sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, features contributions from some 30 authors on the new class-conscious feminism and labour struggles during the COVID-19 pandemic

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I don’t look back even when a lifetime of my faces call me I don’t cry inside the water because it’s echoless ⁦ @PoetKimHyesoon ⁩, translated by ⁦ @DonMeeChoi ⁩

Not, by Kim Hyesoon, Translated by Don Mee Choi

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Available from @uglyducklingprs Dec 2023. Sharing my blurb,

Kristine Ong Muslim

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Marlon Hacla's GLOSSOLALIA to be released in December by @uglyducklingprs Thank you for the blurbs, @tildeclutter & @JLaneria !

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My translations of Orland Agustin Solis, Mark Dorado, & Carla Faith Aquino are included in the latest issue of Firmament now available for order from @sublunaryeds

Sublunary Editions

@sublunaryeds

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Arrived and shipped! Coming in at the tale end of 2023, the final entry in Volume 3 of Firmament! Pick it up here: Subscribe here:

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Iloilo Mega Book Fair, Day 1. Pic from PSN’s FB.

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Vague, textbook-type tributes making rounds on Graciano Lopez Jaena day, none of which mention that his writings are back in print. Filipino translation by Francis Juen from Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (2022).

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@JLaneria

2 years

Always wanted to write a something and use a Robyn Magalit Rodriguez quote as a epigraph. Hope this poem gave it justice. One of two pieces in the inaugural issue of @asamgaramlit

Asam/Garam

@asamgaramlit

2 years

ISSUE 001 OF OUR MAGAZINE IS OUT TODAY!!! We're so excited to share it with you. Get your free copy now!!!!

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In women’s writings we see the revolution that is happening in the countryside. And as a Filipino women’s press, it is our privilege and commitment to help plant the seeds in the unquiet fields. Faye Cura of @GantalaPress

Publishing as truthtelling

In a way, we were forced to reckon with all of this terror through our art, our publishing work.

philstarlife.com

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E_Abalajon

@JLaneria

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Kiri Dalena’s Pila [Lines, 2022], portrays Filipinos waiting in line for some rice at a local community pantry — in a country where the lockdowns are some of the strictest, paired with harsh punitive measures and extremely expensive Covid tests.

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@JLaneria

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For Roy, great literature is literature that’s needed, built, as Roy puts it, through a compact between ‘writers and readers’. An echo, perhaps, of Berger’s statement about a storyteller being someone who listens.

Storytellers Who Listen: John Berger and Arundhati Roy on How To Be a Writer

Literature as the art of smuggling out the stories of others who can’t be heard or whom no one wants to hear

artreview.com

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E_Abalajon

@JLaneria

1 year

Mahmoud Darwish on Edward Said, translated by Fady Joudah

Layla AlAmmar | ليلى العمار

@Layla_AlAmmar

1 year

It's been 20 years since Said passed. I had occasion to ponder his work last week, and it is a treasure trove that gives unceasingly. 'A novel, in particular, if it is not to be read reductively as an item of sociopolitical evidence, involves the reader with itself...

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I can’t tolerate the sky like the way I can’t tolerate poetry I think of a plump girl called Ego Tonight I need to starve her to death ⁦ @PoetKimHyesoon ⁩, translated by ⁦ @DonMeeChoi ⁩

Korean Zen

Poet Kim Hyesoon explores grief through a reckoning with Buddhist identity

tricycle.org

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E_Abalajon

@JLaneria

3 years

In choosing to retell this story through Mother Tining’s narrative, we want to send a message of hope to young people and express solidarity with Indigenous people everywhere, as their struggles continue.

Nothing can stand in the way of a people united in their will

www.goethe.de

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@JLaneria

2 years

The geographical imagination of Palestine is not merely semantic. It is a battle over collective memory and collective expression of desires and ambitions. Bekriah Mawasi, @TheFunambulist_

On Naming and Translating in Palestine

In this text, Bekriah Mawasi questions the ways through which the Palestinian struggle for liberation is translated into English, often creating unnecessary equivalences, as well as inadequate…

thefunambulist.net

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@JLaneria

2 years

A Glossary of the Marcos Era (1965-1986) in the Philippines (A-C) This glossary, by no means exhaustive, presents potted histories of keywords and phenomena that are evocative of the Marcos era (1965-1986) in the Philippines. Caroline Hau

A Glossary of the Marcos Era (1965-1986) in the Philippines (A-C)

This glossary, by no means exhaustive, presents potted histories of keywords and phenomena that are evocative of the Marcos era (1965-1986) in the Philippines. Terms in bold font have their own ent…

ikangablog.wordpress.com

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@JLaneria

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In my art practice, I’ve realized what I truly aim for in my art: solidarity with groups and causes that I believe in and want to lend my work towards. Kill Joy, ⁦ @Purveyr ⁩

Kill Joy on Printmaking & her Artistic Identity | PURVEYR

A printmaker and wood carver by profession, Kill Joy shares stories on the diasporic communities that she has experienced and how her art has evolved since.

purveyr.com

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E_Abalajon

@JLaneria

2 years

When one's culture is multilingual and translational, would that not itself be the reference?

Rayji de Guia

@rayjideguia

2 years

mga kapitbahay, lumabas na yung first issue ng makiling review! kasama ang (revised) chapter 1 ng undergrad thesis ko! link:

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@JLaneria

9 months

Locsin-Nava on Ramon Muzones

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@JLaneria

2 years

Literary Hub

@lithub

2 years

"At heart, my issue with how we read is as much an existential grievance as it is a labor dispute: the industry is simply not serving its employees equally." Elaine Castillo on how white supremacy makes for terrible readers.

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@JLaneria

2 years

Excited for the debut of @ZenyMayRecidoro , cover by @rayjideguia . From @thealienbuddha .

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@JLaneria

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Refaat Alareer’s poem ‘If I must die’ in Ilokano

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@JLaneria

1 year

Sharing the link for the inaugural issue of Dungán, online literary journal dedicated to Western Visayas language and literature studies. …

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@JLaneria

1 year

What does it mean to come from a country created by an unfinished revolution, traumatized by three empires, U.S. counterinsurgency, and dictatorships supported by the U.S.? Nerissa Balce, ⁦ @aaww ⁩

On Filipino Independence and Joy in the End Times

A Filipina immigrant academic mourns and celebrates the aftermath of 1898.

aaww.org

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@JLaneria

1 year

I have poems on Issue 2 of @AndLoafe about Iloilo City, or how a city projects one image, but the built spaces reveal something different. Grateful to the suggestions of @BrendonBoothJo1 , and to the editor @af_orr

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@JLaneria

2 years

Revised, and self-translated my long poem about the Tumadok Massacre of December 30 2020. Honored to be in great company in Issue 2 of @prAtajournal

Reviewing Pictures from the Visit by Eric Abalajon — PR&TA

www.pratajournal.com

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@JLaneria

2 years

I have a poem in volume 7 of @PaddlerPress . pdf available for download, print edition available for purchase.

Paddler Press

@PaddlerPress

2 years

Finally, Volume 7 - Silence is ready for the world. Download a PDF or purchase a full colour print version from our online store.

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Since 2015, Kasingkasing Press, an alternative press and online bookshop in Western Visayas, has been publishing books that steadily redefine what makes up the Philippines’ national literature.

In quiet defiance, independent publishers redefine Filipino literature

With efforts to highlight Philippine literature, independent publishers relay the stories of Filipinos and change what it means to be in the publishing scene.

thelasallian.com

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@JLaneria

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When the ownership-class capture of state interests allows for rampant privatization, deregulation, and cost-cutting, the world becomes less accessible—a symptom of capital’s all-pervading demands. Angeli Lacson ( @cuddlyplant ) in @proteanmag

Notes on Paralysis

Through a first-person lens, Angeli Lacson evaluates the position of the disabled subject, in Filipino society and worldwide—the unique dissonance of being suddenly rendered “less-than” while...

proteanmag.com

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@JLaneria

1 year

from Joyelle McSweeney ( @JoyelleMcS )

Johannes Göransson

@JohannesGoranss

1 year

If youre interested in how translation volatilizes poems, art beyond making them available to new readers, heres a free pdf of @JoyelleMcS and my Deformation Zone ( @uglyducklingprs ): And my book Transgresdive Circulation:

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@JLaneria

3 years

Got a print version from @KomiketPH because of @Deadbalagtas

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@JLaneria

1 year

No longer out of print. From Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto (2018)

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@JLaneria

2 years

I love the Noli, which created a nation, but my favorite is the Fili, which reveals the writer.

Los Angeles Review of Books

@LAReviewofBooks

2 years

“He was the grandfather of Hitler. He invented the yo-yo. He knew Jack the Ripper. He was Jack the Ripper.” Gina Apostol explores the works and cultural meanings of the great Philippine rebel-poet José Rizal.

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@JLaneria

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I translated two poems by Luisito Queano from Filipino to Hiligaynon in issue 12 of @PolyglotMag , that aims to move beyond the hegemony of English and French in Canada. Preorders open in time for International Translation Day. Amazing cover too by @steffitady !

The Polyglot

@PolyglotMag

1 year

What do you think of this cover?! With twelve issues now under our belt, we thought it was time to redesign our look. This cover features a stunning collage by poet and artist @steffitady !

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