ramblingsoul: Happy Mondays LXI

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Happy Mondays LXI

featured readers for the 61sth installment of the bi-weekly Happy Mondays Poetry Nights tomorrow, September 21 @ mag:net cafe Katipunan are as follows:

1. Nikko Vitug
2. Wincy Ong
3. Johanna Fernandez
4. Angelo Suarez
5. Lawrence Bernabe
7. JC Casimiro
8. Khavn Dela Cruz
9. Keith Cortez
10.Jonar Sabilano
11.Waps San Diego
12. Mikael Co

*plus other special guest Patrick Rosal, Krip Yuson, Marne Kilates, and Jimmy Abad.

*readings start promptly at 8pm 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 Acoustic Night featuring:

Roberto Nicolas

Johanna Fernandez w/ Tonight We Sleep

Patience, Dear Juggernaut

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

*photo courtesy of jaunted.com

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.