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Makata is fresh!

Makata Issue No.5, May 2008 is now available online featuring the works of our home-grown and international poets: Aliazer S. Abdurajim, Aurora Antonovic, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Faith Erasmo, Manuel Lino G. Faelnar, C W Hawes, Frederick Lim, Jen Macapagal and Will P. Ortiz.

Included in this issue are the finalists in the KABUWANAN POETRY COMPETITION: Raul "Tata" Funilas, Jason Tabinas, Deborah Rosalind D. Nieto, Noel Sales Barcelona, Juan Emmanuel C. Fernandez, Soliman Agulto Santos, Marc Laurenze C. Celis, Glenn Ford B. Tolentino, Brian B. Acabado, Francisco Arias Monteseña and Ada Dizon Angeles.

Send all submissions / contributions for Volume 9, June 2008 issue to svillafania at yahoo [dot] com and to Jason Chancoco at tarusan22 at yahoo [dot] com (for Tagalog/Filipino & Bikol poetry). Also accepting poems written in other Philippine languages: Cebuano, Iluko, Hiligaynon, Waray, Kapampangan, Pangasinan, Meranao, Tausug etc.

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Le poèt de PangasinanSantiago B. Villafania is a Pangasinan poet based in Manila, Philippines. He writes in Pangasinan, Tagalog (Filipino) and English. Some of his poems have appeared in local and international print and web publications. He advocates for the development, preservation and the revival of Pangasinan as a literary language. He is currently an adjunct faculty member and a senior web developer at Emilio Aguinaldo College - Manila. » more