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By Kimberly Nguyen
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Interviews

Episode 4 of The Source

Ang babae sa osipon ni Ana T. Calixto |
The woman in Ana T. Calixto’s osipon

Fiction

Hanggang sa maging desperado, sasayaw at mag-aalay ng itlog kay Sta. Clara sa Obando, magdadasal sa iba pang Santa at Birhen, maglalakad nang paluhod sa simbahan ng Quiapo at Baclaran. | Desperation sets in, and they dance and offer eggs to Santa Clara in Obando, walk on their knees inside the Quiapo and Baclaran shrines.

Poetry

Lumuwas ika o magraan dagos |
Get out of the ring, or you’ll die in pain

Poetry

Safety is a body with a place to hide in.

Poetry

The body of wings breeds a body of wings

Poetry

Changeling, mythical animal, delighting in the chase

Essays

On learning to navigate the experiences and biases that we bring into the classroom, whether teacher or student.

Poetry

you grow your own tomatoes now
you smile at your harvest.

Marginalia

Rustom Pujado’s prognostics, signs, and gnosis

Fiction

Nagugustuhan mo palan an ugali ni Polding, ay ngata naman ta si Don Lope pa an saimong pinanugaan na pakakasalan? |
If it’s Polding’s character that you like, why did you pledge to marry Don Lope?

Poetry

The firewood was dry, and burned clean and smokeless. A soft orange.

Poetry

Witness your father in this white world, withered, without will.

Interviews

Episode 3 of The Source

Poetry

Even that night father refused to play the hero.

Poetry

tell me why the image of tree bark makes you cry

Essays

Of my two birth tongues, why had only one made the crossing?

Interviews

Episode 4 of The Source

Ang babae sa osipon ni Ana T. Calixto |
The woman in Ana T. Calixto’s osipon

Marginalia

Rustom Pujado’s prognostics, signs, and gnosis

Fiction

Hanggang sa maging desperado, sasayaw at mag-aalay ng itlog kay Sta. Clara sa Obando, magdadasal sa iba pang Santa at Birhen, maglalakad nang paluhod sa simbahan ng Quiapo at Baclaran. | Desperation sets in, and they dance and offer eggs to Santa Clara in Obando, walk on their knees inside the Quiapo and Baclaran shrines.

Fiction

Nagugustuhan mo palan an ugali ni Polding, ay ngata naman ta si Don Lope pa an saimong pinanugaan na pakakasalan? |
If it’s Polding’s character that you like, why did you pledge to marry Don Lope?

Poetry

Lumuwas ika o magraan dagos |
Get out of the ring, or you’ll die in pain

Poetry

The firewood was dry, and burned clean and smokeless. A soft orange.

Poetry

Safety is a body with a place to hide in.

Poetry

Witness your father in this white world, withered, without will.

Poetry

The body of wings breeds a body of wings

Interviews

Episode 3 of The Source

Poetry

Changeling, mythical animal, delighting in the chase

Poetry

Even that night father refused to play the hero.

Essays

On learning to navigate the experiences and biases that we bring into the classroom, whether teacher or student.

Poetry

tell me why the image of tree bark makes you cry

Poetry

you grow your own tomatoes now
you smile at your harvest.

Essays

Of my two birth tongues, why had only one made the crossing?