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January 10, 20112010 Meritage Press Holiday Poetry ContestMeritage Press is delighted to announce the results of the 2010 Meritage Press Holiday Poetry Contest, judged by Beatriz Tabios: First Place: “Water” by Jun de la Rosa ABOUT THE WINNING POET: JUN DE LA ROSA was a Dumaguete workshop fellow for poetry in 2005 and a recipient of the Dean’s Award for Literature at the Ateneo de Manila University. His works have appeared in Philippines Free Press, Philippine Graphic, Philippine Studies, UP Likhaan Book, CCP’s Ani, among others. He blogs at http://jun-delarosa.blogspot.com. Honorable Mentions were also awarded to three other poems. Two poems—“All I Know of Distance” and “City by Night”—were both written by Jennifer Patricia A. Carino. The other Honorable Mention poem, “Pinatubo”, was written by Paul Lucas Gerard M. Bruselas. JENNIFER PATRICIA A. CARIÑO is a 29-year-old poet, musician, and visual artist from Baguio City. Jenny’s poems have been published in various anthologies including Baguio Calligraphy, edited by Francis Macansantos, and Luchie B. Maranan, Anvil Publishing, 2010; Crowns and Oranges : Works by Young Filipino Poets, edited by Cirilo Bautista and Ken Ishikawa, Anvil Publishing, 2009; At Home In Unhomeliness: An Anthology Of Philippine Postcolonial Poetry In English, edited by J. Neil C. Garcia, Philippine PEN and the University Of Santo Tomas Publishing, December, 2007; The Queer Collection 2007: Poetry and Prose, edited by Gregory Kompes, Fabulist Flash Publishing, Nevada, June, 2007; and Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices From Marginalized Spaces, edited by Michelle Sewell, GirlChild Press, Hyattsville, Maryland, April, 2006. She is a member of The Baguio Writers Group and the Baguio Aquarelle Society. When she is not writing, she does freelance layout and graphic design work. PAUL LUCAS GERARD M. BRUSELAS began college at the Ateneo De Manila University, transfered to Kalayaan College then finally to the University of Santo Tomas. He is currently taking AB Literature at the University of Santo Tomas and in his senior year. He has won an award for his poetry collection Overcast at the Gawad Ustetika, UST’s annual awards for literature. He is a member of the Thomasian Writers Guild. Meritage Press is pleased to share these stellar poems: Please go to Link to see the poem: “Water” by Jun de la Rosa ***** All I Know of Distance Sometimes you become a different country When we walk the sky looks down at us or something like the smell of rain― There is more than love between us now: We are waiting for the street light to turn red. is the memory of water― footsteps All I know of distance evades me. ***** City by Night “The leaves of memory seemed to make Because love is like this city, I am trying Here is where love is but a word to hang upon Because I am not this city, I am trying to remember: Under a streetlamp, yellow flowers bloom ***** Pinatubo I ran out believing I reached out I ran back inside With the lights finally out I should have known, ***** FIRST PLACE WINNERS of the MERITAGE PRESS HOLIDAY POETRY CONTESTS: December 1, 2010TENTH ANNUAL POETRY CONTESTDear Filipino Poets Worldwide: You are invited to submit to a fun poetry contest. No submission fees. E-mail submissions. Details below: TENTH ANNUAL HOLIDAY POETRY CONTEST ABOUT THE CONTEST: There are no limitations to poetry styles or content. All types of poems are welcome. By Filipino, we include part-blooded Filipinos. We are now taking submissions up to the deadline of Dec. 31, 2010. Only previously unpublished poems are eligible (you may, however, submit poems that you have featured on your own web sites or or blogs, or that have been published in limited edition chapbooks of no more than 250 copies). ABOUT THE JUDGE: PRIZES: The FIRST PLACE WINNER also will receive SELECTED FILIPINO TITLES: LOCAL COLOR by Beatriz Tabios (to be sent after its release) TRAJE DE BODA by Aileen Ibardaloza; for more information about the book, go to http://meritagepress.com/prau.htm PRAU by Jean Vengua; for more information about the book, go to http://meritagepress.com/prau.htm MUSEUM OF ABSENCES by Luis H. Francia; for more information about the book, go to http://meritagepress.com/museum.htm KALI’S BLADE by Michelle Bautista; for more information about the book, go to http://meritagepress.com/kalis.htm THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY, curated by Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego & Eileen Tabios; for more information about the book, go to http://meritagepress.com/chained.htm THE HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY, VOL. II, co-edited by Jean Vengua and Mark Young; for more information about the book, go to http://www.meritagepress.com/haynaku2.htm PINOY POETICS: A Collection of Autobiographical and Critical Essays on Filipino and Filipino American Poetics, edited by Nick Carbo; for more information about the book, go to http://meritagepress.com/pinoypoetics.htm SILK EGG: COLLECTED NOVELS by Eileen Tabios; for more information about the book, go to http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2011/tabios.html THE THORN ROSARY: SELECTED PROSE POEMS 1998-2010 by Eileen Tabios; for more information about the book, go to http://marshhawkpress.org/tabios4.htm THE BLIND CHATELAINE’S KEYS by Eileen Tabios; for more information about the book, go to http://www.blazevox.org/bk-et.htm NOTA BENE EISWEIN by Eileen Tabios; for more information about the book, go to http://notabeneeiswein.blogspot.com/ I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED by Eileen Tabios; for more information about the book, go to http://marshhawkpress.org/tabios2.htm MENAGE A TROIS WITH THE 21st CENTURY by Eileen Tabios; for more information about the book, go to http://www.ourownvoice.com/books/2004xpress.shtml REPRODUCTIONS OF THE EMPTY FLAGPOLE by Eileen Tabios; for more information about the book, go to http://www.marshhawkpress.org/backlist.htm FINALISTS: PREVIOUS WINNERS: For questions or more information, you can email MeritagePress@aol.com January 7, 20102009 Meritage Press Holiday Poetry ContestMeritage Press is delighted to announce the results of the 2009 Meritage Press Holiday Poetry Contest, judged by Aileen Ibardaloza: First Place: “Butiki” by Michelle A. Penaloza ABOUT THE WINNING POET: Michelle Peñaloza graduated from Vanderbilt University and is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Oregon. She is a carnivore and a sometimes omnivore. Her work has been published in Kartika Review. Congratulations to Michelle for writing the following fabulous poem:
***** FIRST PLACE WINNERS of the MERITAGE PRESS HOLIDAY POETRY CONTESTS: 2009: Michelle A. Penaloza (Judge: Aileen Ibardaloza) December 18, 2009NINTH ANNUAL POETRY CONTESTDear Filipino Poets Worldwide: You are invited to submit to a fun poetry contest. No submission fees. E-mail submissions. Details below: NINTH ANNUAL HOLIDAY POETRY CONTEST ABOUT THE JUDGE: ABOUT THE CONTEST: There are no limitations to poetry styles or content. All types of poems are welcome. By Filipino, we include part-blooded Filipinos. We are now taking submissions up to the deadline of Jan. 5, 2010. Only previously unpublished poems are eligible (you may, however, submit poems that you have featured on your own web sites or or blogs, or that have been published in limited edition chapbooks of no more than 250 copies). PRIZES: The FIRST PLACE WINNER also will receive SELECTED FILIPINO TITLES: traje de boda by Aileen Ibardaloza; the book is forthcoming in 2010 from Meritage Press (www.meritagepress.com) PRAU by Jean Vengua; for more information about the book, go to http://meritagepress.com/prau.htm MUSEUM OF ABSENCES by Luis H. Francia; for more information about the book, go to http://meritagepress.com/museum.htm KALI’S BLADE by Michelle Bautista; for more information about the book, go to http://meritagepress.com/kalis.htm THE HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY, VOL. II, co-edited by Jean Vengua and Mark Young; for more information about the book, go to http://www.meritagepress.com/haynaku2.htm PINOY POETICS; A Collection of Autobiographical and Critical Essays on Filipino and Filipino American Poetics, edited by Nick Carbo; for more information about the book, go to http://meritagepress.com/pinoypoetics.htm THE THORN ROSARY: SELECTED PROSE POEMS 1998-2010 by Eileen Tabios; the book is forthcoming from Marsh Hawk Press, New York, in 2010 THE BLIND CHATELAINE’S KEYS by Eileen Tabios; for more information about the book, go to http://www.blazevox.org/bk-et.htm I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED by Eileen Tabios; for more information about the book, go to http://marshhawkpress.org/tabios2.htm MENAGE A TROIS WITH THE 21st CENTURY by Eileen Tabios; for more information about the book, go to http://www.ourownvoice.com/books/2004xpress.shtml REPRODUCTIONS OF THE EMPTY FLAGPOLE by Eileen Tabios; for more information about the book, go to http://www.marshhawkpress.org/backlist.htm FINALISTS: PREVIOUS WINNERS: For questions or more information, you can email MeritagePress@aol.com November 3, 2009THE 2009-2010 FILAMORE TABIOS, SR. MEMORIAL POETRY PRIZE!Meritage Press Announcement Meritage Press, a multidisciplinary literary & arts press based in San Francisco & St. Helena, is pleased to announce the recipient of The 2009-2010 Filamore Tabios, Sr. Memorial Poetry Prize (”Prize”): Karen Llagas, with her manuscript entitled ARCHIPELAGO DUST. Congratulations to Karen, whose book is scheduled to be published in 2010 by Meritage Press. The Prize results from a global competition among Filipino poets; more information about the Prize is available at http://meritagepress.com/babaylan/?p=19 . As regards the Prize’s recipient, Karen Llagas’ poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, {m}aganda magazine, Broadsided Press, Quay and Wompherence, as well as in the anthologies Field of Mirrors (PAWA, 2008) and Poems of the San Francisco Bay Area Watershed (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010). A recipient of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize in 2007, she holds an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers and a BA in Economics from Ateneo de Manila. She lives in San Francisco and works as a small business consultant, a Tagalog interpreter & instructor, and a poet-teacher with the California Poets in the Schools (CPITS). ARCHIPELAGO DUST will be her first poetry book. Meritage Press (www.meritagepress.com) also would like to congratulate the following Finalists, listed in alphabetical order of authors’ last names: Loved Letters: Mailed Without a Scent of Home by Niki Eskobar Meritage Press would like to thank all the poets who participated by sharing their poetry manuscripts. We are honored to have read all of the poems, and are delighted to conclude that the high quality of participation bodes well for the future of Filipino-authored poetry. Eileen R. Tabios, Publisher, Meritage Press +++++ Click on http://www.meritagepress.com/prau.htm for information about the inaugural recipient of THE FILAMORE TABIOS, SR. MEMORIAL POETRY PRIZE: Prau by Jean Vengua. February 16, 20092008 Meritage Press Annual Holiday Poetry ContestMeritage Press is delighted to announce the results of the 2008 Meritage Press Holiday Poetry Contest, judged by Bino A. Realuyo. Only one poem was chosen this year: First Place: “Letras Y Figuras” by Rodrigo V. Dela Peña Jr. The winning poem itself may be seen at http://meritagepress.blogspot.com/2009/01/2008-winner-of-meritage-press-annual.html (in order for the poem’s correct format to be presented). ABOUT THE WINNING POET: Rodrigo V. Dela Peña Jr. has been a fellow for poetry in various writers’ workshops in the Philippines. His poems and stories have been published in the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Mud Luscious, Sunday Inquirer Magazine, Philippines Free Press, and other journals and anthologies. He is currently working as a freelance writer and publicist. ***** ALL FIRST PLACE WINNERS of the MERITAGE PRESS HOLIDAY POETRY CONTEST: 2008: Rodrigo V. Dela Pena Jr. (Judge: Bino A. Realuyo) February 2, 2009“The 2009-2010 Filamore Tabios, Sr. Memorial Poetry Prize”Meritage Press, as sponsor, is pleased to announce A Call For Manuscript Submissions by Filipino Poets for “The 2009-2010 Filamore Tabios, Sr. Memorial Poetry Prize” DEADLINE: August 31, 2009 POETRY MANUSCRIPTS: Poets may submit as many manuscripts as they wish. Each manuscript should be at least 48 pages long. Each manuscript should come with two cover pages: (i) a cover page with Title, Author’s Name, E-mail Address, Snailmail Address and Phone; and (ii) a second cover page with just the Title. (Manuscripts will not be returned so don’t send your only copy(ies).) We are only taking printed (not emailed) manuscripts. Manuscripts should be sent to: Eileen Tabios PRIZE: The winning manuscript will garner U.S.$500.00 for its author and be published by Meritage Press (www.meritagepress.com). SUBMISSION FEE: None because Meritage Press prizes all poets…and we consider Poetry a Gift. OPTIONAL: If you include $5.00 with your entry, you can get a free copy of the prior winning book, Jean Vengua’s PRAU ($5.00 covers U.S. domestic shipping/handling; if you wish to avail yourself of this offer and you live outside the U.S., email us first to discuss). ELIGIBILITY: Poets of full or partial Filipino descent, living anywhere around the world. All such poets are encouraged to send your best work. Whether you’re an “emerging” vs “established” poet is irrelevant as judging will be based only on the merits of the submitted manuscripts. JUDGING PROCESS: From the submissions, a group of Finalist manuscripts will be chosen by Eileen Tabios. From the Finalists, the winning manuscript will be chosen by Beatriz Tabios. Judging for the top winner will be done anonymously. ABOUT THE JUDGES: FOR FINAL WINNER: Beatriz Tabios received her B.A. with English as her major from the Silliman University in Dumaguete, Philippines. She developed her love for poetry as a sixth-grader reading Homer, William Shakespeare, John Keats, Alexander Pope, William Wordworth and Samuel Coleridge while trying to survive World War II. She would further develop her appreciation for poetry as a college student instructed by poet Edith Tiempo, the first woman to receive the title of National Artist for Literature in the Philippines. The late Dr. Edilberto Tiempo, then the head of the English Department, encouraged Mrs. Tabios to continue her study of English and American literature. With Edilberto Tiempo’s encouragement, Mrs. Tabios wrote her Master of Arts thesis which was the first investigation, regarding Filipino literature, of “(The Use of) Local Color in Short Stories in English.” Later, she taught English literature at Dagupan College (now University of Pangasinan) and University of Baguio, before becoming a teacher at Brent School, a boarding school initially built for children from U.S.-American military, missionary and gold-mining families stationed in the Far East. THE FILAMORE TABIOS, SR. MEMORIAL POETRY PRIZE: BOOK PRIZES: THE HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY, VOL. II coedited by Jean Vengua and Mark Young. PINOY POETICS: A COLLECTION OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL & CRITICAL ESSAYS ON FILIPINO AND FILIPINO-AMERICAN POETICS, edited by Nick Carbo. THE LIGHT SANG AS IT LEFT YOUR EYES by Eileen R. Tabios. SMALL PRINT: Meritage Press reserves the right not to pick a winner and hand out the prize. ***** ADDITIONAL QUERIES may be directed by email to Meritagepress@aol.com January 7, 2009EIGHTH ANNUAL POETRY CONTESTDear Filipino Poets Worldwide: You are invited to submit to a fun poetry contest. No submission fees. E-mail submissions. Details below: EIGHTH ANNUAL (BELATED) HOLIDAY POETRY CONTEST ABOUT THE JUDGE: ABOUT THE CONTEST: There are no limitations to poetry styles or content. All types of poems are welcome. We are now taking submissions up to the deadline of Feb. 15, 2009. Only previously unpublished poems are eligible (you may, however, submit poems that you have featured on your own web sites or or blogs, or that have been published in limited edition chapbooks of no more than 250 copies). PRIZES: The FIRST PLACE WINNER also will receive SELECTED FILIPINO TITLES: THE GODS WE WORSHIP LIVE NEXT DOOR by Bino A. Realuyo; for more information about the book, go to http://www.uofupress.com/store/product31.html PRAU by Jean Vengua; for more information about the book, go to http://meritagepress.com/prau.htm MUSEUM OF ABSENCES by Luis H. Francia; for more information about the book, go to http://meritagepress.com/museum.htm KALI’S BLADE by Michelle Bautista; for more information about the book, go to http://meritagepress.com/kalis.htm THE HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY, VOL. II, co-edited by Jean Vengua and Mark Young; for more information about the book, go to http://www.meritagepress.com/haynaku2.htm PINOY POETICS; A Collection of Autobiographical and Critical Essays on Filipino and Filipino American Poetics, edited by Nick Carbo; for more information about the book, go to http://meritagepress.com/pinoypoetics.htm BABAYLAN: AN ANTHOLOGY OF FILIPINA AND FILIPINA AMERICAN WRITERS, co-edited by Nick Carbo and Eileen Tabios; for more information about the book, go to http://www.auntlute.com/babylan.htm NOT EVEN DOGS, the inaugural hay(na)ku poetry collection by Ernesto Priego; for more information about the book, go to http://meritagepress.com/notevendogs.htm THE BLIND CHATELAINE’S KEYS by Eileen Tabios; for more information about the book, go to http://www.blazevox.org/bk-et.htm THE LIGHT SANG AS IT LEFT YOUR EYES by Eileen Tabios; for more information about the book, go to http://marshhawkpress.org/tabios3.htm I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED by Eileen Tabios; for more information about the book, go to http://marshhawkpress.org/tabios2.htm MENAGE A TROIS WITH THE 21st CENTURY by Eileen Tabios; for more information about the book, go to http://www.ourownvoice.com/books/2004xpress.shtml REPRODUCTIONS OF THE EMPTY FLAGPOLE by Eileen Tabios; for more information about the book, go to http://www.marshhawkpress.org/backlist.htm BRIDGEABLE SHORES by Luis Cabalquinto; for more information about the book, go to http://www.artbook.com/1885030347.html FINALISTS: PREVIOUS WINNERS: For questions or more information, you can email MeritagePress@aol.com January 14, 20082007 Meritage Press Holiday Poetry ContestMeritage Press is delighted to announce the results of the 2007 Meritage Press Holiday Poetry Contest, judged by Eric Gamalinda. The results include this contest’s second time for a tie for “First Place”, and also the first repeater for “First Place”: First Place, Co-Winner: “First Winter Passing” by Naya S. Valdellon Naya S. Valdellon is this contest’s first poet to receive “First Place” twice, the prior time occurring in 2002 when she tied with Michella Rivera-Gravage in the contest judged by Oliver de la Paz. The 2007 results also feature our first non-English language poet winner. Unfortunately, Eric Gamalinda felt he was only able to assess the Tagalog entries, and so entries in other Filipino languages were not included in the judging. Judge Eric Gamalinda says about the winning entries: “First Winter Passing” is a lovely poem about how language connects and disconnects, and how it is nearly impossible for many of us to bridge this solitude except perhaps through poetry and its spectral silences. “O.N.S.” is deceptively old-fashioned like a kundiman, but fused with a naughty, graphic eroticism and a verbal precision that no translation can do justice—by lines 7-9, I was captivated by its masterful lyricism. “An Explanation” is a quiet, elegant little poem that feels like an iceberg: beautiful, mysterious, larger than it seems. I apologize to those who sent poems in other Filipino languages that I couldn’t read; I had to exclude them from the competition, and thus only judged the Tagalog-language poems. Here are some information about the winning poets: Naya S. Valdellon is currently finishing her M.A. in English major in Creative Writing at the University of Toronto. Her chapbook of poems, The Reluctant Firewalker, was published by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts as part of its UBOD New Authors Series in 2005. Her poetry has received the Hart House Poetry Prize, the Maningning Miclat Award, and the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature. Marcel L. Milliam is Ilonggo by birth but Capiznon by association. He is the founding Chairman of “Yanggaw”, The Capiz Writer’s Circle, and a member of the “Dagyang Pulong” Iloilo Writers Group. He works for GMA TV6 in Iloilo as a talent under the ETV Department. He writes poetry mainly in Hiligaynon, but produces pieces in English and Filipino as well. After receiving fellowships from the 1st Fray Luis De Leon Creative Writing Desk of the University of San Agustin, Iloilo, “2nd Panagsugat” Writers workshop of UP Vis-Min, 12th Iligan National Writers Workshop of the MSU-IIT, and the 7th Iyas National Writers Workshop for his Hiligaynon poems, he has now “crossed-over” into fiction. He has won twice the NCLA-VI “Paktakontxt” of the NCLA-VI, consecutive wins in the UPV SWF Bigkas Binalaybay sponsored by the NCCA from 2003-2007, both in the Pagbigkas at Pagsulat Categories. His works have been published in four issues of SanAg, the official literary Journal of the Fray Luis De Leon Creative Writing Desk of the USA-Iloilo as well as in the 33rd ANI of the CCP and numerous other local and national publications. At present he is a 3rd Year student in the Bachelor of Laws Program (Llb.) of the University of Iloilo College of Law and is actively involved in the works of the Alternative Law Groups Inc. (ALG) and was a paralegal intern of the Children’s Legal Bureau (CLB), Cebu. When he miraculously has free time, he is also involved with the Iloilo theater scene as a stage actor. R. Torres Pandan has been a law school dean for ten years and a partner in the biggest law firm in Bacolod City, Philippines for 16 years. He has won the Palanca Awards for poetry and his first book of poetry was short-listed for the 2005 National Book Awards. He is also the Research Director of the Philippine Supreme Court’s JURIS project on mediation. We are pleased to share the winning poems: First Place, Co-Winner by Naya S. Valdellon: First Winter Passing “the tangled language of those who always stuttered as they spoke, caught as 1. Daylight Saving Time Thirteen hours between Toronto and Manila— The hands of the clocks in my room ache to be moved— Dali’s watches wilt in the waning light, in the poster what’s another hour to lose while we loosen our tongues, above our faces. Ants kiss on top of the stopwatch. 2. Tell me about your country. A constellation of islands Tell me what it looks like. A crouching old woman I don’t mean on a map. You mean from a plane? I’m not asking for it. No, you’re better at imperatives. 3. The man I love has faith in words. 4. Silver white winters that melt into springs— Here, his fingers skate on my skin. My blood hisses and expensive. His tongue teeters over kita , his way into my archipelago. Later, our breaths 5. News from Manila My father had a stroke Of bad luck 6. I’m writing him a card, a catalogue 7. Write the truest sentence you know. I have true thoughts every two minutes. All languages sound lovely until you hear their words for shit. Winter makes us all look like impostors. It’s impossible to get lost in this city of grids and signs. There are too few original thoughts and too many translations. Everything I love has an expiration date. 8. At the bakery, the women behind the counter One of them looks at me icily, their circle I hold the bread to my chest, negotiating ***** FIRST PLACE, CO-WINNER by Marcel L. Milliam: O.N.S. Unan mo’y mga bisig ko Salikop ng labi mong bumibigay buhay Buong lakas kong naisambulat Ngunit haring araw, lulok na sa kanyang trono ***** HONORABLE MENTION by R. Torres Pandan: AN EXPLANATION He counted fifty-nine swans I don’t believe Yeats erred He likewise found the odd male ***** ALL FIRST PLACE WINNERS of the MERITAGE PRESS HOLIDAY POETRY CONTEST: 2007: Naya S. Valdellon & Marcel L. MiIliam (Judge: Eric Gamalinda) November 24, 2007SEVENTH ANNUAL HOLIDAY POETRY CONTESTDear Filipino Poets Worldwide: You are invited to submit to a fun poetry contest. No submission fees. E-mail submissions. Details below: SEVENTH ANNUAL HOLIDAY POETRY CONTEST ABOUT THE JUDGE: ABOUT THE CONTEST: There are no limitations to poetry styles or content. All types of poems are welcome. We are now taking submissions up to the deadline of December 31, 2007. Only previously unpublished poems are eligible (you may, however, submit poems that you have featured on your own web sites or or blogs, or that have been published in limited edition chapbooks of no more than 250 copies). PRIZES: The FIRST PLACE WINNER also will receive SELECTED FILIPINO TITLES: AMIGO WARFARE by Eric Gamalinda; for more information about the book, go to http://www.cherry-grove.com/gamalinda.html (Patrick Rosal and Eileen Tabios discuss Eric’s amazing book, AMIGO WARFARE, at http://galatearesurrection8.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-books-by-eric-gamalinda_30.html and http://galatearesurrection8.blogspot.com/2007/11/two-books-by-eric-gamalinda.html PRAU by Jean Vengua; for more information about the book, go to http://meritagepress.com/prau.htm MUSEUM OF ABSENCES by Luis H. Francia; for more information about the book, go to http://meritagepress.com/museum.htm KALI’S BLADE by Michelle Bautista; for more information about the book, go to http://meritagepress.com/kalis.htm THE FIRST HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY, co-edited by Jean Vengua and Mark Young; for more information about the book, go to http://www.meritagepress.com/haynaku.htm PINOY POETICS; A Collection of Autobiographical and Critical Essays on Filipino and Filipino American Poetics, edited by Nick Carbo; for more information about the book, go to http://meritagepress.com/pinoypoetics.htm THE LIGHT SANG AS IT LEFT YOUR EYES by Eileen Tabios; for more information about the book, go to http://marshhawkpress.org/tabios3.htm I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED by Eileen Tabios; for more information about the book, go to http://marshhawkpress.org/tabios2.htm MENAGE A TROIS WITH THE 21st CENTURY by Eileen Tabios; for more information about the book, go to http://www.ourownvoice.com/books/2004xpress.shtml BRIDGEABLE SHORES by Luis Cabalquinto; for more information about the book, go to http://www.artbook.com/1885030347.html AND SELECTED MERITAGE PRESS POETRY TITLES: THE OBEDIENT DOOR by Sean Tumoana Finney; for more information about the book, go to http://meritagepress.com/obedientdoor.htm OPERA: Poems 1981-2002 by Barry Schwabsky; for more information about the book, go to http://www.meritagepress.com/opera.htm 100 MORE JOKES FROM THE BOOK OF THE DEAD by John Yau and Archie Rand; for more information about the book, go to http://meritagepress.com/100morejokes.htm FINALISTS: PREVIOUS WINNERS: For questions or more information, you can email MeritagePress@aol.com |
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