Reads from Eileen Tabios’ "Force Majeure"
Reads from "Accent Reduction" by Noel Abubo Mateo.
Reads from THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COMMODITIES INSTALLMENT NO. 9: FILIPINA BRIDES by Eileen Tabios
Reads from "My Grandfather, the New American" by Jennifer Madriaga. Cheyne Gallarde in background.
Reading from Michelle Cruz Skinner’s "Beautiful"
University of Hawaiʻi Filipino Rondalla accompanied readings by Filipino writers. Pictured here: Prof. Ric Trimillos on oktavina.
Readers at Filipino Writers taping pose with host Cedric Yamanaka (far left) and Hawaii State Senator Will Espero (far right).
After a week of madly working on my M.A. thesis for 8-12 hours a day, my brain came up with this haiku: a paper monster thesis is thirty pages only…