ramblingsoul: Happy Mondays XXXVII

Sunday, October 05, 2008

Happy Mondays XXXVII

below are the list of readers for the 37th installment of the Happy Mondays Poetry Nights @ mag:net cafe, Katipunan for tomorrow, October 6:

1. Karen Capco
2. Pancho Alvarez
3. Joseph Saguid
4. JL Poquiz
5. Sasha Martinez
6. Waps San Diego
7. Adam David
8. RJ Baliza
9. Pancho Villanueva
10. Marie La Viña

*reading starts promptly at 7:30pm followed by the open mic. for those interested in reading, 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. :)

performers/bands at 9:30pm:

Johnoy Danao
Valet Parking

Agnes Ingarra
Pinup Girls

FREE ADMISSION the whole night. 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.