I recently came across the following passage and though it was published in 1909, I suddenly had a feeling it was being written about America in 2019: The ordinary people of the villages think of the town government, not as something that belongs to them and in which they may share and by which theyContinue reading “‘Some General Ideas About Filipino Communities’”
Tag Archives: Philippines
Publication: ‘The Tahamaling’ in Mirror Dance
My poem “The Tahamaling” has just been published in Mirror Dance, edited by Megan Arkenberg. Check it out here.
Cheers!
Over the holidays, toasts are usually a thing. Often in a lot of languages: Cheers, some say, or L’Chaim, Prost, Sláinte, Salute, Kampai, Salud … and I didn’t know what was said in the Philippines. Here’s the thing: there isn’t a direct translation, because the tradition is different. On Gideon Lasco’s website, he explains howContinue reading “Cheers!”
Friday Photo: One Peso Note from Philippines, 1922
Spoken Word Artist: Ruby Ibarra
Check out this great spoken word piece by a young artist born in the Philippines and lives in California. Ruby Ibarra’s website is here: https://www.rubyibarra.com/
‘Positively No Filipinos Allowed’
Photo: ‘Positively No Filipinos Allowed’
2017 in Review in Publishing
What I’ve published in 2017.
13 things about my Lolo, Col. Maximiano Saqui Janairo, for Veterans Day
Here’s a photo of my Lolo, Maximiano Saqui Janairo. 1930 graduate of U.S. Military Academy at West Point Commission in the Philippine Scouts Chief engineer with the Philippine Army in 1941 Captured by the Japanese in April 1942 Survived the Bataan Death March Prisoner of War in Camp O’Donnell Escaped while being transferred to a hospitalContinue reading “13 things about my Lolo, Col. Maximiano Saqui Janairo, for Veterans Day”
Photo: An early all-girls basketball game in the Philippines
Basketball is a huge sport in the Philippines. In trying to figure out how that happened, I came across this image in the archives University of Michigan Library Digital Collections, which includes lots of images from the early interactions of the US in the Philippines.