below are the featured poets for the reading tomorrow in mag:net katipunan.
1. Lourd Ernest de Veyra
Lourd is a Palanca-winning poet with two books of poetry and is the frontman of Radioactive Sago Project.
2. Ramil Digal Gulle
A two-time Palanca-winning poet, Ramil is the author of Textual Relations, recently published by UP Press.
3. Kris Lanot Lacaba
Kris aka elpinoymatador recently finished his MA in Creative Writing from UP Diliman and is working on either his first book of poems or a CD of Kundiman songs.
4. Sid Gomez Hildawa
Winner of both the Palanca and Free Press Awards, Sid is the author of Regarding Space, published in 2005 by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) under its "Ubod" First Author Series.
5. Nerissa Del Carmen Guevarra
Another Palanca-winning poet, Ricci is also a dancer, teacher, and the author of the Reaching Destination, a book of poems that comes with a CD which includes readings from her collection.
6. Kash Avena
Kash is an up and coming poet from Miriam College currently finishing a Comm Arts degree. She is the editor of MC's literary folio.
7. Israfel Fagela
Easy is the lead singer/composer of Los Chupacabras. He is also a practicing lawyer and a fellow of the Baguio and Dumaguete National Writers Workshop.
8. Pocholo Goitia
A member of the Thomasian Writers Guild, Cholo is a published fictionist and poet and awardeee of UST's Ustetika Awards.
9. Karl de Mesa
Karl is the lead guitarist of Tabloid Lite, the editor of the literotika line of books, and the author of Damaged People: Tales of the Gothic Punk, which came out last year from UP Press.
10. Pancho Villanueva
Pancho just came back from a fellowship for poetry in the Dumaguete National Writers Workshop. He is a painter and illustrator, having designed Caracoa 2006.
Show kicks off at 9pm. Other readers include Ingrid Reynolds, Mikael Co, Angelo Suarez, Khavn dela Cruz, Arkaye Kierulf, and Waps San Diego.
Performing in-between the poetry reading is the band, Jeffplane. After the reading, Los Chupacabras rock the house!
Punta kayo!!! Kitakits. :)
