Marías at Sampaguitas
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
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, 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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Marías at Sampaguitas
Nov 21, 20201 min read
Poetry by Joseph Schwarzkopf Jr./Butchoy
My mother tells me of half recalled grandparents
With possibility of tainted blood, of self destruction
Of women who hid with their sisters
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Nov 21, 20202 min read
Poetry by Christian Aldana
This is what joy looks like:
palm to palm, radiant, mga kasama.
Sing like every tomorrow is infinite
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Marías at Sampaguitas
Oct 26, 20203 min read
Review by Noreen Ocampo
Finish Filipinx American History Month on a strong note and show Elsa Valmidiano your support!
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