ramblingsoul: Happy Mondays XLVI

Monday, February 16, 2009

Happy Mondays XLVI

featured readers for the 46th installment of the bi-weekly Happy Mondays Poetry Nights @ mag:net cafe Katipunan TONIGHT, February 16, @mag:net cafe Katipunan are as follows:
1. Conchitina Cruz
2. Mabi David
3. Larry Ypil
4. Adam David
5. Twiggy Bastareche
6. Douglas Candano
7. Egay Samar
8. Andrea Teran

9. JL Poquiz
10. Waps San Diego

11. Wincy Ong

12. Marne Kilates

13. Krip Yuson

14. Angelo Suarez

*plus other regular and surprise guest readers.

*readings start promptly at 730 pm followed by the Open Mic sessions @ 930pm-10pm.

*for those interested in reading during the open mic, we will leave a sign-up sheet with Rogel, the bar tender of mag:net cafe. please feel free to sign up and read your work. :)

10pm onwards, Happy Mondays Bayaw zoundz featuring:

1. Roberto Nicolas Vs. Khavn
2. Patience, Dear Juggernaut
3. The Purple Chickens

FREE ADMISSION the whole evening. Kitakits po tayo. :)

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Books for Sale (pls use comment box if you are interested or email me, ramblingsoul@yahoo.com. i can bring them later sa Happy Mondays. Thanks!)

1. Mark Strand: Man and Camel (Poems, HB) -- P600

2. Edward Hirsch: Poet's Choice -- P400

3. William Logan: The Whispering Gallery (Poems) -- P250

4. Jorge Luis Borges: Labyrinths (Rare 1964 Edition) -- P400

5. Nick Carbo: Pinoy Poetics (Essays by Filipino Poets)-- P500

6. Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles (HB) -- P400

7. Mark Haddon: The Talking Horse & Sad Girl & Village Under the Sea (Poems) -- P400

8. Tony Perez: Eros, Thanatos, Cubao -- P200

9. Chou-En-lai: In Quest (Poems) -- P250

10. Andrew Hudgins: Baabylon In A Jar (Poems) -- P250

11. Ray Bradbury: Something Wicked This Way Comes (HB) -- P400

12. Jose Garcia Villa: The Anchored Angel (Selected Writings) -- P500

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.