PROBLEMATIC AND INCREDIBLY FLAWED by Jade Mark Capiñanes
Over the past few years I’ve grown increasingly suspicious of what fiction is doing to people. Not just readers, but writers too, who are supposed to know better. Much of the work I come across these days seems to be almost imperceptibly organizing itself around a new kind of consensus: that a good story is […]
Through Sickness and Health by Krysta Lee Frost
Years ago, I was diagnosed with a mental health disorder with which I no longer identify. At the time, it felt like a gift. I was in my early twenties, and had only recently come to terms with the impacts of a life split between the Philippines and the United States as a mixed race […]
TO A POETICS OF THE BAYOT: ON RESTRAINT IN POETRY by Laurence P. Lanurias
AS A YOUNG AND emerging poet, I always hear from my seniors who know the craft of poetry writing better than I that a poem is never defined by how loudly it speaks but by how much it leaves unsaid. But as a bayot who grew up learning to mute the shape of his desire […]