Pinoy Poets on Poetry will collect insights by young and emerging Filipino poets on anything (and everything) poetry.

What is your favorite poem?

Luksong Tinik (Allan Popa)

                    - Gerry Rubio

Sex Without Love (Sharon Olds)

also The Hickie (Liz Lochhead)

                    - Vanessa Academia

Commerce and the Man (Ricardo de Ungria)

                    - Rosvie Gonzales

Blue Hour (Carolyn Forche)

also Dislocations: Seven Scenarios (Adrienne Rich)

                    - Kath Tolosa

Annabel Lee (Edgar Allan Poe)

                    - Edz Padillo

Summer (Paul Verlaine)

                    - Mic Camba

Last Portraits (Marne L. Kilates)

                    - Paolo Cristobal

Parang wala akong ma-single out. Pero may mga writer na interesado ako sa entire body of work nila. Mas mahalaga sa akin na ma-interest sa body of work ng mga poet, kesa sa single poems. Ngayon may continual engagement ako sa body of work nina Wallace Stevens, Lyn Hejinian, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge. Pag nakabili ako nung collected (poems) ni Barbara Guest, baka masali siya. So far kasi interesado ako sa lahat ng isinulat ni Guest.

                    - Raymond John de Borja

Fever 103 (Sylvia Plath)

also Kung Ibig Mo Akong Makilala (Ruth Elynia Mabanglo)

                    - Maureen Gaddi dela Cruz

Wala akong maisip na favorite poem of all time. Pwede yung "Difference" ni Mark Doty pero gasgas na siya at may nakikita rin akong fault sa kaniya. Nung mag-start ako magsulat ng tula, natuwa ako sa mga tula ni Ruth Elynia Mabanglo. Pero kung ganito lang, may most favorite line ako. Ito iyong "Which having been must ever be" ni William Wordsworth na ngayon ko lang nalaman na galing pala sa oda niyang "Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" na makakalimutan ko rin (pero never yung linya).

                    - Mark Angeles

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