#ok back to regular heneral luna posts or whatever

[chinupacoroman]

(sorry, break character muna’t plug lang!)

so yeap, sorry, i’ve been gone a while (internship/work stuff, and also:) i started a new blog called tulaang pampúblikó since i noticed that the blogs on here that used to post filipino poetry either stopped updating or have disappeared.

we filipinos aren’t exactly a textual based people inasmuch as we are aural or audiovisual people (hence our love for music and film [both legitimate art forms as well] and a rather blind [blinder?] spot towards literature), there’s a large body of work out there that spans the lifetime of this archipelago that goes highly underappreciated. i was hoping to tap into that through this blog and encourage others to pursue the field of philippine literature both inside and outside the academic context.

poetry has served this country more than we know. literature has fueled revolutions across history, from colonial times to recent history (protest poetry, anyone?). poetry is both our intrinsic gaze towards our traditions and identity, and our extrinsic beam towards the rest of the world and the narratives of the people around us. poetry is history and memory. from the folk songs and chanted epics of various people groups in the philippines that have stood the test of colonization to the slam poems you hear around malate and maginhawa in current times.

i try my best to include the sources of each poem, so it becomes easier for you to find them offline (i recommend libraries and university presses! local bookstores sadly aren’t much help, but i think powerbooks and fullybooked might have a couple). please support local literature! this is blog is meant to expose, not pirate. i don’t know how often i’ll be posting but i’m aiming to get a queue up so you get a regular stream of that good stuff.

also, a common trend for those poetry blogs that have existed before is that they tend to focus primarily on a very limited scope, that is, contemporary (sometimes modern) poetry in english, while the philippines is a country of 170+ languages with a history of literature (written and oral) that spans centuries, so this blog will try its best to remedy that, bringing you poetry from all corners of the archipelago in as many languages and time periods! (as of post time i think there’s a couple bicol, bisaya/cebuano, and hiligaynon poems lined up for posting). i’ll try to throw in some diaspora poetry, too, since the filipino has definitely found his way into every corner of the globe and has been writing from there. surely the poets of this country are not all english or filipino-speaking generation x-ers, right?

haha wala lang para ‘di sayang pag-major ko sa philippine lit sa college haha. salamat sa ‘yong suporta :~)

ch-ch-check it out! tell your friends!

mishka

#actually the real purpose of this blog is 2 honeytrap my enemy b/en al/ves so i can fite him #ok back to regular heneral luna posts or whatever #poetry #philippines #filipino poetry