ramblingsoul: Happy Mondays XIX

Monday, January 07, 2008

Happy Mondays XIX

the bi-monthly HAPPY MONDAYS poetry nights @ magnet cafe katipunan jumpstarts the year of the rat TONIGHT with a special reading featuring Fil-Am poet Joseph Legaspi, whose new collection just recently came out, with a foreword by no less than Philip Levine. wasak!

other readers for the night include:

1. Marjorie Evasco

2. Gemino H. Abad

3, Krip Yuson

4. Marne Kilates

5. Kris Lanot Lacaba

6. Pocholo Goitia

7. Angelo Suarez

8. Pancho Villanueva

9. Lourd De Veyra

the program starts at 7pm, with the formal opening of Ma'am Marj's poem "Origami" at the Poet's Alcove. wine will be served. free admission. see you guys later.

About Joel

Joel M. Toledo holds a Masters degree in English Studies (Poetry) from the University of the Philippines Diliman, where he likewise finished two undergraduate degrees (Journalism and Creative Writing). He has authored three books of poetry – Chiaroscuro (UST Press, 2008), The Long Lost Startle (UP Press, 2009), and Ruins and Reconstructions (Anvil Publishing, 2011). Chiaroscuro was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Awards. Toledo was the recipient of the 2006 NCCA Literary Prize, and has won several literary awards for his poetry in English, including two Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards, The Philippines Free Press Literary Award, The Meritage Press Poetry Prize in San Francisco, USA, and the Bridport Prize for Poetry in Dorset, United Kingdom. He was a recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Creative Arts Residency at the Bellagio Center in Italy in March 2011 and was the Philippine representative for the 2011 International Writers Program (IWP) at the University of Iowa, USA. Toledo is the current Literary Editor of the Philippines Free Press. He teaches Literature at Miriam College.