ramblingsoul: Happy Mondays XXII

Monday, February 18, 2008

Happy Mondays XXII

readers for tonight's 22nd installment of the Happy Mondays Poetry Nights @ Mag:Net Cafe Katipunan as follows:

1. Lourd De Veyra
2. Ina Feleo
3. Eric Melendez
4. Kash Avena
5. Pocholo Goitia
6. Daryll Delgado
7. Pancho Villanueva
8. Peachy Paderna
9. Marne Kilates
10. Sasha Martinez
11. Krip Yuson
12. Enuh Iglesias

plus other special guests and first-time readers.

reading runs from 7 to 930pm. free admission. see you guys.

btw, if you guys want to join the Happy Mondays readers list, please email me, ramblingsoul@yahoo.com and we'll include you in the line-up. better yet, come to magnet tonight if you have poems you'd like to read. The Happy Mondays Poetry Nights is open to all writers who want to read their work. :)

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my poems are up @ the Concelebratory Shoehorn Review website. Thanks to editor Maurice Oliver for the invite.

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.