ramblingsoul: Happy Mondays XXV

Monday, April 07, 2008

Happy Mondays XXV

sorry for the late post. been under the weather the past few days. anyway, Happy Mondays Poetry Nights @ mag:net Katipunan tonight, 7 to 930pm. It's the 25th installment and this week, we'll be giving a tribute to the late poet,visual artist, and architect Sid Gomez Hildawa, whose works some of the poets present tonight will read.

featured readers as follows:

1. Lourd De Veyra
2. Eric Melendez
3. Marie La Viña
4. Angelo Suarez
5. Yol Jamendang
6. Pocholo Goitia
7. Mikael Co
8. Jonar Sabilano
9. Marne Kilates
10. Lawrence Bernabe
11. Patty Laurel
12. Krip Yuson

please come and read as well. free admission. kitakits.

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.