diaspora | Marias & Sampaguitas

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

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 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 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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Interview with Samantha Garner by Maria Bolaños

Marías at Sampaguitas

May 28, 20218 min read

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, 20214 min read

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, 20211 min read

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, 20211 min read

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, 20211 min read

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, 20211 min read

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, 20211 min read

Poetry by Leila Tualla

Claustrophobia comes at me in moments between dusk and nightfall.

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Marías at Sampaguitas

May 15, 20212 min read

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, 20211 min read

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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