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Luis “Junyee” Yee, Jr.: A Portrait of an (National) Artist as Filipino
ARTIST’S PROFILE I first met Junyee when I was a student at the University of the Philippines in the early seventies. Together with some artist friends, we would later visit him when he began living in the campus of UP,…
Tea House
POEM I love your poetry he said and poured his soul into my teacup I was as usual afire with thirst It was still winter No end in sight Being a geisha of words an angel stunned…
Ayuweng: Cordillera Rhythm and Harmony (first of a series)
INDIGENOUS CULTURE By Fr. Samuel Maximo and Genevieve Balance Kupang Ayuweng emanates from the sacred land, the heartbeats and music of the Cordillera indigenous peoples. The animating sound-beats of the land in harmony with the umili’s (village’s) chants, the sound…
The Barque of the Helpers and Guides
ESSAY by Trudi Lee Richards “If you believe your life will end with death, nothing you think, feel, or do has any meaning. Everything will end with incoherence and disintegration. If you believe your life does not end with death, you…
Pressenza Renews Itself: a New Design for Better Communication
From Friday to Saturday we will be launching the new Pressenza website. Journalism for peace and non-violence is renewing its website with a new design, reordering the sections and giving more prominence to opinion, interviews and analysis, as well as…
A past of exclusion: the abuses of the Algerian regime against the Kabyle people
Independent Algeria was born in 1962. However, Kabylia, as a region is the base of a population with its own characteristics and social organization, is the product of a long history. This indigenous population, the first inhabitants to arrive in…
I’ll take care of it
POEM If you don’t want to love I’ll take care of it I will love. If you don’t want to smile I’ll take care of it I will smile. If you don’t want to…
Poetry Community as a Well of Ginhawa (Well-being) in these Pandemic Times
TALK/PRESENTATION My talk can be summed up in three things: First, the context and my experience during this pandemic time. Second, the Well of Ginhawa, and its related metaphors. And third, how I started and built this poetry community.…
A Conversation about the Criminal Justice System in Sci-fi with Matthew Baker, Author of “Life Sentence”
INTERVIEW Once I read the short story “Life Sentence” in Lightspeed Magazine, I decided to save it to my collections of short stories I should revisit. It was 2019, and Matthew Baker was on my radar.…
Poetic Openings in the Time of Covid 19
POETRY <A Prelude> In the early days of the Co-vid 19 pandemic, everyone was trying to come to grips with the isolation that the lockdown imposed on almost everyone. Anxiety over the unknown was…
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