Lazy Sunday afternoon, 71°F , New York City Even when I was still full from lunch, I couldn’t help but salivate when I saw the...
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NI MANANG KO
Our contributor, Mark Martinez, is a Speech Communications graduate of UP Baguio. On his free time he writes prose and poetry in three languages: English, Tagalog and Ilocano. He is a freelance journalist and currently dabbles in photography. Ubing ak pay lang idi pimmanaw...
Ag-Abroadak Kuma, Asawak
Our Ilocana contributor is a serious blogger, educator, and a graduate of the UP-Diliman’s Department of English and Comparative Literature (DECL), a Center of Excellence in Literature and in the English Language in the Philippines. She writes in Tagalog, Ilocano and English. The poem is a...
An Earnest Prayer
Below is a whimsical poem about one’s desperation at finding the proverbial ‘right one’. Written in Long Island, New York almost five years ago, the poem captures the common complaint of women of this generation: there simply isn’t one. However, desperation turns into plea...
Naimbag nga rabii, New York!
This is my new home. Maricar is E-locanized. Translations “Naimbag nga rabii, New York.” Magandang gabi, New York. Good evening, New York.
