ramblingsoul: To All Caracoa 2006 Contributors

Friday, December 29, 2006

To All Caracoa 2006 Contributors

Just a reminder to all the 25 contributors whose poems came out in the 2006 Silver Issue. If you have not gotten your complimentary copies yet, please email me your mailing address (ramblingsoul@yahoo.com). The people from the PLAC will send you your copies. But if you are anywhere near the Katipunan area, I can meet you early next year and hand over your copies. Thanks.

By the way, Caracoa 2006 is being sold in mag:net Katipunan and will be available in Aeon Books by January. It's only P100. Bili naman kayo. Salamat at Manigong Bagong Taon sa lahat!

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.