Tag: Waray Poetry

  • 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…