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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

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 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

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 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

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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Marías at Sampaguitas

Apr 3, 20211 min read

Poetry by Noreen Ocampo

It has been three seasons since I last saw you, she hums. I was beginning to forget your face.

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 20, 20211 min read

Poetry by Noreen Ocampo

I’m running out of options. because I like the impossible sound of a typing speed that isn’t going anywhere.

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 4, 20213 min read

Poetry by Christine Fojas

homebody | cocoon | 2020 atrophied some of my hard won progress | change that officially by calling | 2021 the year of

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 1, 20211 min read

Poetry by Noreen Ocampo

& her handshake is an embrace. The second mystery is that she smiles the vowels of my name

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Mar 1, 20211 min read

Poetry by Christine Fojas

It’s not yours until you bleed on it, until it tastes the kiss of Vancouver rain

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Feb 2, 20211 min read

Poetry by Sarah Mae Dizon

My lola is the kind of person to rise earlier than the sun

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Feb 2, 20213 min read

Review by Christine Fojas

Maybe that’s one reason why translation is not much-practiced in the Philippines

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Marías at Sampaguitas

Feb 2, 20211 min read

Poetry by Noreen Ocampo

Would you buy flowers for yourself? Can you tell me all the people who would? The people who have?

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