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Poster poems

12/27/2009

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Bringing the Dolls, by Merlie Alunan
I saw this photo of a framed poster poem that brought back memories of my Dumaguete days. Back then, I was a graduate student in the Creative Writing Program of Silliman University. One of my teachers was Merlie Alunan, who wrote the poem "Bringing the Dolls." She also involved us in one of her projects for the provincial tourism office -- transforming poetry into posters.

The framed poster above now hangs in Merlie's daughter's restaurant, Ayo, in Tacloban City. That was also one of my happy memories -- dining at Merlie's house, and enjoying the company of her children. You can just imagine how great the food was as four out of Merlie's five children now own and run their individual restaurants.
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Child's Play and Other Poems

10/16/2009

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Here's my first collection of poems culled from the pieces submitted for my Creative Writing master's thesis at Silliman University, Dumaguete City.

The collection takes its title from the first poem, which sort of sets the theme for all the poems. I had to take out some of the other poems included in my thesis since they did not seem to thematically fit the present collection.

This set of poems were written from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s, and all of them were published -- in one version or another -- in Philippine popular magazines or literary journals and in one international online anthology.

So much for introductions. I'll leave you to read the collection ...

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