ramblingsoul: Happy Mondays LXII + Years Later

Monday, October 05, 2009

Happy Mondays LXII + Years Later

featured readers for the 62nd installment of the bi-weeklyHappy Mondays Poetry Nights TONIGHT, October 5 @ mag:net cafe Katipunan are as follows:

1. Wincy Ong
2. Waps San Diego
3. Angelo Suarez
4. Lawrence Bernabe
5. JC Casimiro
6. Keith Cortez
7. Jonar Sabilano
8. Mikael Co
9. Rob Ceballos
10. Keith Cortez
11. Dave Buenviaje
12. Pancho Villanueva
13. Larry Ypil
14. Krip Yuson
15. Jimmy Abad
16. Patrick Rosal

*plus other special guest readers and performers.

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, it's the Imagining October installment of the monthly YEARS LATER: A New Wave Music Retrospective featuring rarities and anthems from the '80s. performing covers are:

XLuthor

Tey's Revenge

Patience, Dear Juggernaut

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

*photo courtesy of i4.ytimg.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.