ramblingsoul: Happy Mondays XXXV: The Palanca Awards Night Edition

Friday, August 29, 2008

Happy Mondays XXXV: The Palanca Awards Night Edition

featured readers for the 35th installment of the Happy Mondays Poetry Nights tonight, September 1st at mag:net cafe katipunan as follows:

1. Sasha Martinez
2. Pancho Villanueva
3. Pancho Alvarez
4. Glenn Atanacio
5. Israfel Fagela
6. Iñigo De Paula

7. Kash Avena
8. Jonar Sabilano
9. Carljoe Javier
10. Lawrence Bernabe
11. Joey Nacino
12. Joselito De Jesus
13. Pocholo Goitia

14. Claude Despabiladeras
15. Allan Hernandez

*PLUS surprise guests and readers coming from the Palanca Awarding.

please do bring your works if you want to read during the open mic. thanks!

followed by the music of:

Angel Radio
Johnoy Danao
Whappak
The Love Team (featuring Wincy Ong)
Enero

7PM Onwards. FREE ADMISSION.

kitakits!

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btw, congrats to bayaw Lourd De Veyra, Amado Bajarias, and Larry Ypil for winning in last wednesday's Philippines Free Press Centennial Literary Awards! at sa iba pang mga bayaw at hipag na hahabol sa Happy Mondays dahil nasa Palanca Awarding sila! wasak! dumarami na ipapatumbang baka!

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.