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, 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
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 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 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 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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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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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 15, 20211 min read
Poetry by Victoria Bautista
Would you have loved me
If they called me Jasmine
Instead of Sampaguita
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Marías at Sampaguitas
May 1, 20211 min read
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
the showers are
too weak
in our new house,
or else I am too weak,
letting water pass
right through me
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Apr 20, 20211 min read
Poetry by Noreen Ocampo
conjuring the Sahara
in our orange hallways & together
trekking across those impossible sands.
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Apr 13, 20214 min read
Review by Maria Bolaños
Khalisa Rae’s Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat takes an unflinching look at the racist legacy.
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