Category: Poetry Wednesdays

  • Cebuano Poetry: Marlinda Angbetic Tan Reads “Bomba”

    Over a year ago, I met Marlinda Angbetic Tan in Cebu. I had “met” her via email, intially, and whe was, sight unseen, incredibly warm and supportive of this Sari-Sari Storybooks venture. It was wonderful to meet her in person then.Marlinda is a writer, and the former Lifestyle Editor of…

  • Waray Poetry: Janis Salvacion Reads “Kahayag” / “Light”

    Waray Poetry: Janis Salvacion Reads “Kahayag” / “Light”

    Next up in the Poetry Wednesdays series is Janis Salvacion, reading her luminous poem about her grandmother, “Kahayag.” It’s not evident in this recording, but Janis carried on through the sound of trikes and motorcycles revving past her bookstore (where we snuck in this recording).Janis opened Bookstorm about a year ago…

  • Waray Poetry: Voltaire Oyzon reads “Gab-i” / “Night”

    Waray Poetry: Voltaire Oyzon reads “Gab-i” / “Night”

    For the second installment of Poetry Wednesdays, here’s Tacloban-based Waray poet Voltaire Oyzon, reading “Gab-i.”Voltaire is also one of the minds behind the Corpora Project, a database of texts in various languages. It’s purpose is to preserve language and provide structural analysis that can be used to classify texts according…

  • Cebuano Poetry: Jeremiah Bondoc reads “sa menteryo sa carreta dihang nangutana ka og unsaon ang balak sa pagbasa”

    Welcome to Poetry Wednesdays on the Sari-Sari Storybooks blog.As I travel around the Philippines to work on this children’s book series, I’d like to share some of the poets I meet, writing in Cebuano, Waray, Meranao, Hiligaynon, Tagalog and other Philippine languages. I hope you’ll enjoy hearing the multiplicity of…