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                    [Title] => Workshop week in Duma: Win!
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Last Thursday towards sundown, we sang the song Today once again. “… I’ll be a dandy and I’ll be a rover/ You’ll know who I am by the songs that I sing./ I’ll feast at your table, I’ll sleep in your clover./ Who cares what tomorrow shall bring?”

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134575 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804845 [AuthorName] => Alfred A. Yuson [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/lifestyle/arts-and-culture/20140526/2014-Writing-Fellows-Duma.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1268035 [Title] => Writers at their best [Summary] =>

Writers Night 2013 went off last Dec. 6 in UP Diliman with nary a hitch, thanks to tremendous support from the Philippine writing community (and, of course, from my staff at the Institute of Creative Writing).

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/4194/tbxfc.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 995851 [Title] => Cheers for ‘The Mango Bride’ [Summary] =>

It isn’t every day or even every year that a Filipino author gets published by Penguin Books — I can think of only Jose Rizal, Jose Garcia Villa, Jessica Hagedorn, and Miguel Syjuco, off the top of my head — so when Marivi Soliven told me a couple of years ago that her new novel The Mango Bride (New York: NAL Accent, 2013) had been picked up by a division of Penguin, I immediately sent her a congratulatory note.

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/4486/1tkm.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 792993 [Title] => Poetry in Makati, paintings in Dubai [Summary] =>

Within a memorable week, a couple of scintillating poetry reading events took place in Makati starting in mid-March.

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A small group of poets and writers had wonderful occasion to break bread one evening recently with visiting Fil-Am author Lara Stapleton.

[DatePublished] => 2011-01-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134575 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804845 [AuthorName] => Alfred A. Yuson [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 613093 [Title] => Goodbye to Mag:net [Summary] =>

Shucks, it sucks, the end of yet another affair, what with another recent entry to the ever-growing Dead Cafes Society. Mag:net on Katips, or Katipunan Avenue, right across Miriam College’s gate and/or right beside Rustan’s Supermarket, as we used to text invitees and new converts, lasted nearly five years.

[DatePublished] => 2010-09-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134575 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804845 [AuthorName] => Alfred A. Yuson [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 587962 [Title] => Poets on the stage [Summary] =>

Exactly a week ago, the impresario Rock Drilon and I slipped into senti reveries at his flagship (and remaining) Mag:net venue on Katipunan Avenue, after he reminded me that it was the summer solstice.

[DatePublished] => 2010-06-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134575 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804845 [AuthorName] => Alfred A. Yuson [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 551390 [Title] => Missing Jimmy [Summary] =>

I sent out pained communication past 3 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 30.

[DatePublished] => 2010-02-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134575 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804845 [AuthorName] => Alfred A. Yuson [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 36141 [Title] => Farewell to dear Adrian [Summary] =>

He held a small red ball in his left hand. It was soft, a squeeze ball, presumably for some kind of therapy as he lay on a cot for an extended dialysis session at Makati Med.

[DatePublished] => 2007-12-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134575 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804845 [AuthorName] => Alfred A. Yuson [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 382340 [Title] => Chromatext redux [Summary] => Enter the gallery and a pair of wooden sculpture with carved literary text – a handcrafted door and a slab showing Jose Rizal in repose, with Josephine – by National Artist Napoleon Abueva greet you to your right. Beside Billy’s door hangs another "literary hybrid" – with text and pictograms on clear acrylic float. Titled "Freddie Heiroglyph (for Alfrredo Navarro Salanga)," the artwork by Cesare A.X. Syjuco includes a poem, also his. [DatePublished] => 2007-01-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134575 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804845 [AuthorName] => Alfred A. Yuson [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) ) )
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