ramblingsoul: Happy Mondays XXIX

Sunday, June 01, 2008

Happy Mondays XXIX

Featured readers for the 29th installment of the Happy Mondays Poetry Nights @ mag:net cafe, Katipunan tomorrow, June 2, are as follows:

1. Pocholo Goitia
2. Ken Ishikawa
3. Marie La Viña
4. Angelo Suarez
5. Easy Fagela
6. Glenn Atanacio
7. Gabe Mercado
8. Daryll Delgado
9. Adam David
10. Joseph Saguid
11. Khavn Dela Cruz
12. Eric Melendez
13. John Torres
14. Lourd De Veyra
15. Waps San Diego
16. Pancho Villanueva

plus other regular and guest readers. please come and bring your own poems for the open mic.

FREE ADMISSION the whole night. Reading starts at 730 pm. bands performing during and after the reading include
Carnivale
Shotgun Lola
Chongkeys
Khavn and Friends
Los Chupacabras

kitakits!

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.