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Marías at Sampaguitas

Oct 3, 20211 min read

Poetry by Ennie-Marie Dacut Ilasco

I was never Filipino to them, just someone who belonged to everyone else.

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Oct 3, 20211 min read

Poetry by Jo Alvarado

i wish for a universe that is not so delicate i cannot cope if it slips through my fingers if i shatter in every alternate timeline tell me

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Oct 3, 20211 min read

Poetry by Jo Alvarado

my grandmother does not know how to forget she has taught my mother the same reminiscence has learned to worship grief

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Oct 3, 20211 min read

Poetry by Natasha King

What was the summer if it wasn't for us?

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Sep 30, 20211 min read

Poetry by Verna Zafra-Kasala

Wildflowers grow through the cracked mouth of the parking lot where I had my first kiss

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Sep 28, 20211 min read

Poetry by Noreen Ocampo

and you’re crying in them. you were always crying back then, but you don’t remember anymore

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Sep 28, 20211 min read

Poetry by Catherine Liao

Every crime goes unpunished under the watchful eye of empire. How else do you think revolutions are born?

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Aug 8, 20211 min read

Poetry by Neen Ramos

let's drive until we reach Tagaytay. Drink coffee overlooking the Taal Lake. And imagine there’s no such thing as a pandemic.

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Aug 8, 20211 min read

Poetry by Neen Ramos

Defiance will carry me through my last days, Amidst the terror of the night, over the coastal waters of Cavite

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Aug 8, 20211 min read

Poetry by Pamela K. Santos

balik: fluid adj. state of return 🡺 to be home 🡺 to be bahay : to buy flight cab out of bahay when no one

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Aug 8, 20211 min read

Poetry by Pratiksha Sharma

the peak of sadness is on my PMS and packages of western countries for dousing my boredom.

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Aug 7, 20211 min read

Poetry by Juliette Sebock

But brave isn’t a word I’d assign myself, more deer-in-the-headlights, Rapunzel-eyes, diving into confetti night skies to avoid any mention

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Aug 7, 20211 min read

Poetry by Grace Beilstein

We need lines, where feelings distract and the way you — oh you! — look at me lingers and makes me forget

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Aug 7, 20211 min read

Poetry by Grace Beilstein

Beats, Beat, Beat, Beat Up music pours from the ever-shared vein waxes and wanes pads on shy feet. knowing what’s wrong in the mind, is...

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Aug 7, 20211 min read

Poetry by Juliette Sebock

Take a step— move toward the light, the dark, the moment.

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Aug 7, 20211 min read

Poetry by Noreen Ocampo

I want you to be like me. I want you to have reasons to live.

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Jul 16, 20215 min read

Review by Dina Klarisse

Perhaps the greatest hold Valmidiano has on the reader is through collective memory and experience.

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Jul 6, 20214 min read

Review by Farah Fawzi Ali

Gharib shares her honest experiences of being caught between her Filipino and Egyptian identities

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Jul 5, 20214 min read

Poetry by Jason Magabo Perez

or his throat, or his lungs, or his song, his body now gills all over, now there, all the way over there beyond this

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Jun 29, 20211 min read

Poetry by Noreen Ocampo

the spaghetti tastes jollier when it costs a six-and-a-half hour drive to jacksonville, florida, the closest home of jolly spaghetti

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