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BOOK II
Hymn,
Sob,
Psalm


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Interview
Hymn, Sob, Psalm
An interview with Edith Tiempo
José Edmundo Reyes interviews the Grande Dame of the Silliman Writers' Workshop.

Edith L. Tiempo: Sandaled Queen and Lion
D.M. Reyes's commentary on Edith Tiempo's legacy as the nurturer of three generations of literary talent.

A Reading of Two Poems by Edith L. Tiempo
Fellow writer-poet and critic Jimmy Abad casts a fresh look at two classic poems from Tiempo's oeuvre.

Learning to Drive
An interview with Karina Bolasco
Reviews editor Ubaldo Stecconi interviews Karina Bolasco of Anvil Publishing on her lifelong career with National Bookstore and the chance to run the most active and prolific publishing house in the country. Bolasco elucidates on the challenges of producing culture and balancing the books and deplores the underestimated role of textbook publishing in cultural development.
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Features
Postcards
Plundered from the desk-drawers and piles of papers of some writers are the postcards other writers send.

Literary Journeys
Writers Jing Hidalgo, Butch Dalisay, Danton Remoto, Cyan Abad, and Ruel S. De Vera on the places that continue to haunt the mind and feed the soul long after you've been there.

Travel Writing
Clinton Palanca on what separates true travelers from the pathetically peripatetic, and how you can tell true travel writing from travel whining.

Foreign Bookstores
Editor in Chief Clinton Palanca on where writers get their books abroad (just in case you're in the neighborhood).
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Politics
Junket Yards
Supposedly retired broadsheet columnist Captain Psycho delves in why presidential wanderlust isn't the disease it's usually made out to be.

Behold the Filth
The dilemma of popular history
TODAY environmental columnist Jon-Jon Rufino goes to the source of the garbage crisis and gives some prescriptions for those who are serious about "zero waste."

Taxation without Representation
The Girondist takes a cue from some famous fighting words and makes a pitch for overseas Filipinos to be given the vote.

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Frame

Photographs by Nico Sepe, Rowena Vivien Sy, Ben Razon, Boy Yńiguez, Rommel Bernardino, A. Chester Ong, and Lita Puyat.

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Poetry

The Collector
by Leigh T. Reyes

Looking for Lightning
by Leigh T. Reyes

Garden
by Alfred Yuson

On This Site Will Rise A Shopping Mall
by Alfred Yuson

Without the Sun
by D.M. Reyes

Mars: Photograph from the Rover
by D.M. Reyes
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Palanca Awards Section

Welostit
by Ma. Romina M. Gonzalez

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Essays

Rough Roads
Getting there is half the fun, or so Cunard used to advertise. Features Editor Kristine Fonacier writes on why getting from point A to B isn't about efficiency and deluxe accommodations but more about roughing it-and living it up.

A Cambridge Journal
Neil Garcia attends a writers' conference, discovers that the academic landscape evokes his extensive horticultural knowledge, and goes punting on the river Cam.

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Reviews

Historiography in a Hurry
by Jonathan Chua

Deconstructing Rizal
by Noel Vera

A Barfly in the Ointment
by Ubaldo Stecconi

Brownout on Balara Boulevard
by Reviews Staff

Heat Wave
The 18th Festival International de Jazz de Montreal
by Helge Dascher

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Writing for a Living

Hell's Kitchen
by Butch Dalisay

 



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