What’s the Balagtasan’s relevance to young Filipinos? Consider that the spirited tradition, named after the Spanish colonial era’s great Filipino poet Francisco Balagtas, and pioneered by Jose Corazon ...

Poetry during the pandemic has taken the form of tanaga, a native Filipino poem with 4 lines and 7 syllables each. Case in point: "Pitong Pantig, Pintig, at Pagitan," an anthology of 50 tanaga in ...

UNVEILED as a new art installation in the heart of Bonifacio Global City, passersby can witness a live recital of Filipino and Czech poems along High Street, now a permanent home of the Poetry Jukebox ...

Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino (KWF) enjoining the public to participate for this year's search for "Talaang Ginto: Makata ng Taon 2022 (Poet of the Year)." Talaang Ginto: Makata ng Taon is a poetry ...

Bringing the values and culture that one upholds, "Ang Gitano" will take you to various parts of the world through Giovanni Ortega's poems, letters and short stories of women leaving their families ...

Poetry is one such literature only the gifted could craft and a Filipina domestic worker, provided with an enabling environment to chart her own hobbies and interests has done so. Five years in the ...

The literature and arts community woke up on July 4 with a heartbreaking news—poet, essayist, editor, teacher and translator Rogelio G. Mangahas is dead. Known to his friends as Roger, he bade us ...