One Domain to Rule Them All: Simplifying Your Online Presence in the Age of AI
The digital world is crowded, but I have found ways to carve out space and make it work. Here’s how you can do the same.
Marinduque Is in the Heart Joins the Philippine Book Festival 2025
Join Marinduque Is in the Heart at the Philippine Book Festival 2025, happening March 13-16 at Megatrade Hall, SM Megamall. This one-of-a-kind book fair celebrates Filipino authors, artists, and publishers, featuring fiction, poetry, history, and cultural narratives.
Book Recommendation: Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
Reading:Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong If you’ve ever wanted a poetry collection that punches you in the chest, kisses your forehead, and then leaves you staring at the ceiling questioning your entire existence, this is the one. Ocean Vuong doesn’t just write poetry. He breathes fire onto the page, and you either […]
Book Review: The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
A lyrical, genre-defying memoir, The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit explores memory, storytelling, illness, and identity. A reflective book about the stories we tell to survive and make sense of our lives.
Book Review: The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
A sharp, no-fluff review of The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison — an essay collection about pain, empathy, and emotional messiness. Perfect for readers who like their nonfiction personal, uncomfortable, and a little unhinged.
The 4 AM Internet Rabbit Hole and Finding Your Voice Through Ezra Pound
I woke up at 4 AM, eager to write poetry before distractions began. Instead, I got sidetracked by Louise Glück and ended up exploring Ezra Pound’s advice to W.S. Merwin: to find your voice, first learn to translate others. This led me to use AI to examine my writing. Each generated version reflected what my voice isn’t. Join me on this journey of self-discovery through rejection and reflection.
Art as Necessity: Notes on Carl Phillips “Ambition”
Art as Necessity: Notes on Carl Phillips “Ambition” Sitting with Phillips’s “Ambition,” I see something like a dialogue across time and across difference. Assigned for my poetry class, the essay rises like the Gothic arches of a cathedral- each stone a study on what motivates us to create, what makes art not just appealing but […]
Shepherd / Pastol ni Lamberto Antonio
At first glance, Lamberto Antonio’s “Pastol” feels like stepping into an Amorsolo painting. You know the ones – golden light, carabaos in rice fields, that idealized Filipino rural life we’ve all seen in museums.
Night Swimming
Night Swimming I practiced hurtlike how pearls are made,methodically, with attention,this art of controlled wounding. This is how. First,you learn to treasure what harms you,learn how beautiful things comefrom bodies in distress. But the ocean knows better.It knows the differencebetween cultivation and calcification,between keeping and containing.The pearls do not need your midnight tending. Watch how […]
The Witness
The Witness by April Pagaling (in reply to “Wala Nang Tao sa Sta. Filomena”) You stand in the stubbled field,a scarecrow stripped of purpose,shirt faded to the hue of stillborn harvests. January light knifes sideways,spilling shadows longer than your body,stretching beyond the momentof its making. I have witnessed this scene before.Escalante’s fencepost scarecrowdraped in a […]