There is just this periodic itch to come out and read aloud. Perhaps it is due to the solitary nature of writing. One day you will find yourself ready to explode with poems and with the desire to do it in a crowded place. And so it was one night in March 2011 when I [...]
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Bicol-based writer Jose Jason L. Chancoco is once again in the Talaang Ginto: Gawad KWF sa Tula. Now in its 5th decade, the annual contest seeks to have a “Golden List” for the year’s top poets writing in Filipino. Six poets are usually chosen and the first in rank is dubbed as ‘Makata ng Taon” [...]
Writers’ Gig (WG), Bicol’s regular poetry show will celebrate its first anniversary on Sunday, March 4, 2012 at Sosimo RestoBar, Magsaysay Avenue, Naga City. The WG have had ten (10) gigs since it had its debut on March 5, 2011 at the old Wharf Galley then located at downtown Naga. “It is primordially an open-mic [...]
It’s been a busy time. Have laws and jurisprudence to memorize, and not to mention an upcoming internship with Saligan-Bikol for I am one of the three who qualified. I also helped choose the winners for the 9th Sural Essay Writing Contest sponsored by UP Harong, an organization of UP students who are from Camarines [...]
There is a copy of my first book at Yale University Library. Just learned about it today. Here’s the link. If you are there and you want to read about Bikol poetics, just look for my book. It might help.
UNDER THE STORM: An Anthology of Contemporary Philippine Poetry
Posted: July 27, 2011 in Publications, Publications and Anthologies, UncategorizedHere’s an update on the upcoming anthology by MOV. This time, we have the name of the authors and the poems included, and the book cover. Launching will be at Ayala Museum on September 2, 2011, at 6PM. I can’t wait for the anthology to come out. It’s a must-have. Here it is: 1 Anne [...]
I know this is late posting. But anyway, here’s one of the pictures during the 1st Albay Writers Workshop held at Bicol University-Tabaco last May.
Poet Danton Remoto has all the reason to be happy and gay this coming elections. His Ang Ladlad party was recently accorded accreditation through a Supreme Court ruling (Ang Ladlad v. Comelec, April 8, 2010). Ang Ladlad, a group representing gays, lesbians and transexuals was earlier denied accreditation by the Comelec due to lack of [...]
In Municipal Law, the citizens cannot put the law into their own hands even if the state is challenged with the difficulty of execution of the law. It is even seditious, hence a crime to perform acts of hate and revenge to a public or private person even under the pretense of a sound socio-political [...]
Yes dear blog hoppers, my book has reached Manila. Copies are now being sold at the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. But I believe most of it will be sent out by the government to public libraries throughout the country. I myself have donated copies to the Naga and Iriga City public libraries, [...]
