ramblingsoul: Happy Mondays LI

Monday, April 20, 2009

Happy Mondays LI

featured readers for the 51th installment of the bi-weekly Happy Mondays Poetry Nights @ mag:net cafe Katipunan TONIGHT, April 20, @mag:net cafe Katipunan are as follows:

1. Arnold Molina Azurin

2. Gemino Abad

3. Marne Kilates

4. Pocholo Goitia

5. Vincent Eviota

6. Angelo Suarez

7. Pancho Villanueva

8. Mia Tijam

9. Carlomar Daoana

10. Keith Cortez

11. Sasha Martinez

12. Andrea Teran

13. Yol Jamendang

14. Lawrence Bernabe

*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 BayawZoundz featuring:

1. Roberto Nicolas

2. Popoy Diokno

3. Khavn

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

***

a little Haiku below for the midsummer night's rain. :)

A fork of lightning

staggers the proud sunflowers.

Summer's relenting.

Renga # 20

We dress the children
in our old clothing.
Tingnan mo, isang manok.
Hubad, pero dressed. Gets mo?
Naglalagas ng calamansi
seeds at flour from their crepe
paper wing tips.
Ang dami nating jokes
tungkol sa battered wives
and eating them raw.
Ang tagal mo ring ma-gets nun.
I can't blame you.
But the children look cute.
Sabi ni Boy Abunda
we should avoid eating buttered
anything. We'll get fat eating them
raw.
Pero ang problema sa'yo,
ang daming puwedeng pag-usapan,
pero mas gusto mong bumalik
sa mga natapos na. Look,
sabi ko, the children look cute.
We dress them in our old clothing.
Bakit gusto mo silang hubaran
gamit ang butter, and batter,
at 'yang Boy Abundang 'yan?
Oo, madaling maalala nung tayo
ang nagmukhang manok. Gusto ko
sanang mukhang linechon,
pero sabi mo, huwag,
hindi exciting.
Better not to leave
the skin on.
Mas nakakataba ang may balat.
Masyado ka namang balat
sibuyas. Cute
is in the eye of the beholder.
Ano ba yung sabi sa kanta?
They act like children but
they're always women to me.
Fine? Fine.
Mga batang naliligo sa mantekilya?
Ilabas na ang tinapay! Mapapakain ako.

Wasaaak! Rakenrol! Hwoooooo!

sasha, yol, kuwabatake

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.