Marías at Sampaguitas
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Natasha King
What was the summer if it
wasn't for us?
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- Sep 30, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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
- Aug 8, 2021
- 1 min
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 7, 2021
- 1 min
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 6, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 4 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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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Marías at Sampaguitas
- May 28, 2021
- 8 min
Interview with Samantha Garner by Maria Bolaños
Samantha Garner is a Canadian SF/F author living in the Greater Toronto Area.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- May 28, 2021
- 4 min
Review by Maria Bolaños
Garner is a biracial Filipina-Canadian living in the Greater Toronto area.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- May 20, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Maria Bolaños
there's a layer of dust on my crocodile skin
i've been in southern california so long
the hawk cuts an arc in the sky and agrees
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- May 20, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Maria Bolaños
We watch the house wrap itself around her.
Light and heat return to the earth.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- May 17, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Victoria Register
i am allowed to be both a rose and its thorns,
a work of art and the glass that encases it,
all at once
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- May 17, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Jenny Mae Samson
I am a daughter of the Diaspora
The blanket woven by my motherland
Adorns us each in gold
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- May 15, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Leila Tualla
Claustrophobia comes at me in moments between
dusk and nightfall.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- May 15, 2021
- 2 min
Poetry by Christian Aldana
We look up at the sky and see blue; uninterrupted
and no one tells us we need to step out of the sun
our skin a cloudless glow, we stretch
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Marías at Sampaguitas
- May 15, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
I haven’t figured out what good parenting looks like
maybe a dollar to not skip class two
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