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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

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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