BOOK V
	Virgie Moreno: The Last Bohemian

• Interview
• Features
• Workshop
• Politics
• Frame
• Gallery
• Poetry
• Fiction
• Palanca Awards Section
• Essays
• Requiem
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The Last Bohemian
An Interview with Virgie Moreno

Poet, cultural envoy, sensualist, bon vivant, and unabashed eccentric, Virginia Moreno has never made any excuses about her life-and, so far, has had no regrets. D.M. Reyes leads a troupe of PEN&INK editors through the labyrinth of her recollections.

Orfeo in Macao, Eurydice in Tondo

D.M. Reyes meditates on this most enigmatic of literary godmothers.

From Classroom to Newsroom

They are considered the training ground of real-world reporters and editors, but in many ways school papers are a battleground all on their own. JV Rufino, a five-year veteran of student journalism, examines his battle scars.

Wanted: Writers for Children

It's not as easy you think. Carla Pacis, noted children's writer, shares tips on how to write books for the knickerbocker set.

The Way of the Poet

What a poet is, and what imperatives drive poets to turn personal agonies into the stuff that makes the souls of others soar—these are the questions Ma. Luisa B. Aguilar-Cariño delves into in this seminal lecture.

Satellite Dish of the People

Maligned by politicians and endlessly misinterpreted by media, the SWS's true loyalty is to its data and its accessibility to the public. Or so argues SWS Fellow Dennis Arroyo.

Passion and Pistols in Paris

Ambeth Ocampo the sleuth takes a fresh look at a historical whodunit, determining in the end that long-held views on this cause célèbre have been far too charitable.

The Impertinence of Being Earnest

The Girondist ruminates on the parental desire to turn him into John Stuart Mill, and how the route to education sometimes follows unconventional paths.

Photographs by Derek Soriano, Julius Clar, Paul Durano, and Stella Kalaw.

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Gallery

Alfonso Ossorio: The Child Returns

To commemorate the groundbreaking New York retrospective of the late Alfonso Ossorio, expatriate Filipino painter, Mike Solomon, director of the Ossorio Foundation, places the man's art and life in perspective.

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Poetry

The winners of the 1998 Pen&Ink—Ayala Corporation College Poetry Contest

Poems by Arvin Mangohig, Neva Kares P. Talladen, Ceres Y. C Abangin, Mayo Uno Martin

A Bonfire for Guy Fawkes
by Sheryll Tesch

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Palanca Awards Section

'What I Love Or Will Remember Most About High School'
by Vicente G. Groyon III

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Essays

Writing and the Academy

Clinton Palanca reflects on the uneasy relationship between those who write and those who write about writing-who are very often, themselves, those who write.

The Shape of Opinion

M.S. Nery casts a critical eye on Manila's irritable tribe of columnists and comments on a journalistic scene dominated by commentary.

A Man of Rhetoric
Francisco 'Soc' Rodrigo (1915-1998)

Raul Rodrigo laments the passing of the last man of rhetoric.

Take Three
by Jesse Hernandez Liwag

Dimsum History
by Javier V. Rufino

Urduja Triumphant
by Katinka Rodriguez