ramblingsoul: Happy Mondays XXX

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Happy Mondays XXX

Please come join us for the 30th installment of the Happy Mondays Poetry Nights @ mag:net cafe Katipunan this June 16, Monday. FREE ADMISSION 7:30pm till midnight.

Featured readers for the night are:

1. Lourd De Veyra
2. Eric Melendez
3. Adam David
4. Mikael Co
5. Ronald Benusa
6. Kash Avena
7. Marie La Viña
8. Enuh Iglesias
9. Hussein Macarambon
10. Pocholo Goitia

plus other regular and guest readers. to celebrate this 30th reading, there will be special solo acoustic numbers by Wincy Ong of Narda, Johnoy Danao of Bridge, and Waps San Diego of The Bayaw Collective.

PLUS rakenrol performances by our main bands for the evening:

1. Los Chupacabras
2. Taggu Ndios
3. Weedisneys
4. Dissent

Moleskine notebooks will be raffled off courtesy of Jasper Ong of http://www.avalon.ph/.

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.