ramblingsoul: Chupacabraz at mag:net January 15 Monday!

Saturday, January 13, 2007

Chupacabraz at mag:net January 15 Monday!

Please come, support us, and Rock Out! This coming monday in mag:net Katipunan. Wasakan starts at 9pm. We'll be playing two sets from the forthcoming album, Release the Evil. Also featuring readings from established and upcoming poets like Jimmy Abad, Allan Pastrana, Angelo Suarez, Arkaye Kierulf, Lourd de Veyra, John Torres, Larry Ypil, and other readers from UP, UST, and Ateneo. If you feel like it, bring a copy of your poems and READ with us during the open mic. No secret handshakes required!

*photo from the cover of the 2005 album, Z by My Morning Jacket (my favorite wasak innovators of the moment)

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.