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National Artist Virgilio Almario releases new poetry book 'Lemlúnay'

By Dolly Dy-Zulueta | January 13, 2024 - 9:51am

"Lemlúnay: Pagunita sa Gunita" is a collection of poetry featuring 30 of Almario’s poems written in Filipino...

Arts and Culture

Pedro and the health of national memory

By Alfred A. Yuson | March 25, 2019 - 12:00am

Exactly a week after his 75th birthday on March 9, Piscean, National Artist for Literature, National Commission for Culture...

Arts and Culture

Poems for the young

By Danton Remoto | April 4, 2010 - 12:00am

In Dust Devils, National Artist for Literature Rio Alma (a.k.a. Virgilio Almario) gathers together his bilingual poems on youth. Some of them have seen print in earlier books published in the last 30 years.

Sunday Lifestyle

Powerbooks picks Rio Alma for author of the month

August 23, 2009 - 12:00am

Powerbooks Specialty Store picks Rio Alma as its Filipino author of the month. Artist, poet, critic, translator, editor, teacher, and cultural manager Virgilio Almario, more popularly known by his pen name Rio Alma,...

Sunday Lifestyle

Close encounters with National Artists

By Jim Paredes | August 16, 2009 - 12:00am

I am lucky to have met and worked with four National Artists as teachers, mentors and collaborators.

Sunday Lifestyle

Back to books

By Alfred A. Yuson | June 15, 2009 - 12:00am

Back to teachers’ dirty looks, yes, that, too.

Arts and Culture

A world of readers

By Danton Remoto | December 29, 2008 - 12:00am

"Read to lead” is a soundbite that we hear more often these days. Happily for us, the National Book Development Board (NBDB), the government agency tasked with doing this, is working hard and fast to make...

Arts and Culture

LRT-2 passengers enjoy piped-in poetry readings

By Rainier Allan Ronda | August 10, 2008 - 12:00am

Metro

Prose, poetry, and Rio Alma’s ‘Memo Mulang Gimokudan’

By Rebecca T. Añonuevo   | March 20, 2005 - 12:00am

This Week’s Winner

Sunday Lifestyle

Congrats to Rio, farewell to Mang Larry

By Alfred A. Yuson | June 9, 2003 - 12:00am

Congratulations to our friend, fellow poet, and predecessor as chairman of UMPIL or the Writers Union of the Philippines, Virgilio S. Almario aka Rio Alma, our latest National Artist for Literature.

Arts and Culture

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