ramblingsoul: Happy Mondays XXVI

Monday, April 21, 2008

Happy Mondays XXVI

featured readers for tonight's 26th installment of the Happy Mondays Poetry Nights @ mag:net cafe katipunan are as follows:

1. Ramil Digal Gulle
2. Angelo V. Suarez
3. Costantino Zicarelli
4. Pancho C. Villanueva
5. Keith Cortez
6. John Torres
7. Khavn Dela Cruz
8. Adam David
9. Marie La Vina
10. Andrea Teran
11. Mikael Co
12. Ken Ishikawa
13. Pocholo Goitia

plus Krip Yuson, Jimmy Abad, Marne Kilates, regular Happy Mondays mainstays, and special guests.

Admission is free. runs from 7pm to 930pm. please bring poems if you want to read for the open mic. 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.