Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Carlomar Arcangel Daoana

Carlomar Arcangel Daoana

The Visitation of a Bright Thing

It is morning again. He descends from silence Into the tame blue of a sky that frames him In a world he seems to have chosen,...

On the death of a jazz singer (or my thoughts on immortality)

Opening my mailbox this morning, I came upon the sad news that jazz singer Anita O' Day just passed away. I didn't know what...

An Ilocos Norte diary

AS THE sky, dying, flicked a last streak of color—the somber orange of a tropical bird’s wings—in the small window of the plane, I was gripped...

Towards creative openness

To experiment in poetry seems to be an anathema in this country that has a prolonged love affair with Formalism. We keep on reading poems that...