And for FREE you can 1) download my 2017 microchap "You" from this page of its publisher Origami Poems Project's website, then 2) print on one sheet of short bond paper 2) and fold into a mini book!
Published Collections:
The Boy On the Hill (IHRAM, 2024)
Datuterte, Imagined Confessions, 2024 (IHRAM, 2024):
Figuratively: A Chapbook of Shape Poems (Gorilla Printing, 2024)
Recumbent (8Letters Bookstore and Publishing, 2023)
You (Origami Poems Project, 2017)
Metro Manila Mammal (Soma Publishing, 2018)
Outsourced!... (Revolt Magazine, 2021)
forthcoming (as English translator of), Rene Boy Abiva's nth book of poems
Poets & Writers Directory profile
Goodreads author page here .
Indie Writers Wiki page
Indie Writers Wiki page
Interviews:
Autobiographical essays:
my (small press) writing day (I believe this also counts as an interview)
Awards & Accolades:
2024 Fellow (for poetry) of the International Human Rights Arts Movement (IHRAM)
Poem, Dear Aesthete, This Could Turn Deadly, shortlisted for the 2023 Creators of Justice Literary Award (International Human Rights Art Movement)
Poem, "White Cloud," shortlisted for the 2021 Oxford Brookes International Poetry Contest
Reader's Choice Award: Human Rights Online Philippines' 8th (2018) HR Pinduteros Choice Awards for HR Right-Up
Runner-up, Submittable-Centric Poetry Contest (2018)
Third Place, Tanggol Wika's DALITEXT 2018 poetry contest
Poem, "Accidental Book Burning," recognized among The Best of Kitaab 2018
"Dead Drunk in Vientiane and Other Poems," listed among Eastlist 2016 Popular Asiatic Literature
Poems nominated for Best of the Net 2018 (by Ariel Chart ), 2019 ( Collective Unrest ), and 2021 (Woolgathering Review)
Contributor to Pandemic: A Community Poem, Muse-Press's nominated poem for the 2020 Pushcart Prize
Wolfpack Member/Honorary Regular Contributor to Fevers of the Mind literary blog
Wolfpack Member/Honorary Regular Contributor to Fevers of the Mind literary blog
Two poems are subjects of a scholarly article by Dr. Henrikus Yulianto and published in the inaugural issue of the Journal of Southeast Asian Ecocriticism, November 2021
from latest to earliest (dates mostly in Philippine time):
• The Neighborhood Exegete (first published in Awakenings, May 31, 2017) - ""
• Enviably Earthbound - ""
• Torrid - ""
• He Had His Onigiri and Ate It Too - Rigorous, November 14, 2024
• There's Magic in the Dying - ""
• Ballroom Purgatory - ""
• 3000 AD - Brave New Words Vol 1, Paper Trail Projects, August 31, 2024
• Fetching Water - Porch Litmag, April 1, 2024
• Dancing in my Mind - ""
• Dis(re)membering - The Starbeck Orion, March 27, 2024
• The Soldiers of Winter - ""
• A Falling Man - ""
• accidental midnight voyeur - The Wise Owl, March 1, 2024
• somewhere in yakushima - ""
• 6 pm at the beach - The Wise Owl, January 31, 2024
• Silhouettes - Ariel Chart, January 4, 2024
• The Great Flood - ""
• The Elementary Oeuvre (creative nonfiction) - The Writers Club's Writing Gallery, December 31, 2023
• Two Days in Metro Manila, 1981 (creative nonfiction)- Poverty House, December 15, 2023
• Chalice - Wives: poems, ed. Ankit Raj Ojha, October 29, 2023, Hawakal Publishers Private Limited (first published in Spank the Carp, May 2016)
• Wisp - "" (first published in One Sentence Poems, May 12, 2018)
• Our Former Neighborhood in Quezon City - Fevers of the Mind Showcase, August 31, 2023
• Therefore, We Are - ""
• Legend Has It - ""
• Driving Through the City on a Rainy Night - Juste Literary, August 27, 2023
• Since You Left - ""
• I Dream of My Dead High School Classmate (Class of 1991) - ""
• Functional - Unlikely Stories Mark V's F_ck Florida Issue, August 23, 2023 (Note: According to the Blogger Team, I can't directly link to the journal's pages, so visit the linked post first, then from there you can click again to reach my poem as published in the magazine. Thank you.)
• What I Said Upon Arrival in the USA - Horror Sleaze Trash, August 8, 2023
• A Probable Cause of International Conflict - Yuzu Press, August 6, 2023
• Dear Miraculous Hairline - Little Old Lady Comedy, July 25, 2023
• The Man Who Peddles Mabini Paintings - Last Stanza Poetry Journal's Issue 13, July 13, 2023
• Blackout Ceromancy - San Antonio Review, June 25, 2023
• Seiches - ""(Note: According to the Blogger Team, I can't directly link to SAR's pages, so visit the linked pages first, then from there you can click again to reach my poems as published in the magazine.)
• Mob Rule - Bulb Culture Collective, May 13, 2023 (first published in Collective Unrest, February 28, 2019; Best of the Net nominee)
• White Cloud - page 41, Moss Puppy Magazine's Issue 4: Caged, May 11, 2023 (Poem shortlisted for the the 2021 Oxford Brookes International Poetry Contest)
• Sunday Mass in Our Archipelago - The New Verse News, April 2, 2023
• How I Affirm That This is All Real - Spillwords, April 2, 2023
• Romancing the Stone - RIC Journal, March 20, 2023
• Ang Pagbabalik ni Bantay - Worm Moon Archive V0lume 2, March 8, 2023 ("Poetry komix," according to Adam David!)
• Let There Be Light and Rhyme - RIC Journal, February 17, 2023
• Elephant Sinking Into a Mud Pit - JAKE, January 29, 2023
• Gold Then Gone - Duck Duck Mongoose Magazine, December 24, 2022
• The Merits of Taking an Argument to the Extreme - Exist Otherwise, November 14, 2022
• Desert Rain - DED Poetry, November 2, 2022
• To Live, Love, Leave and Die Like My Favorite Hollywood Movie Characters - Defuncted, October 24, 2022 (previously published in The Broken Cassette Magazine, August 15, 2018)
• Beach View at Sundown - Liquid Imagination, October 8, 2022
• I Promise What I Can't Deliver - Coming Out of Isolation: Poems on Resilience, Triumph, and Hope, anthology edited by Dr. Christopher Okemwa, October 2022
• Mortals, We - ""
• The Failed Sorcerer - COMPULSION PETAL, Empty Salon's Summer 2002 anthology, September 1, 2022
• Normal - DON'T SUBMIT!, August 2, 2022
• One Year After the Break Up at the No AC Motel - Horror Sleaze Trash, June 30, 2022
• Lost Satellite - Fevers of the Mind, June 22, 2022
• No Resurrection - Lothlorien Poetry Journal, June 5, 2022
• B(L)OOM! - ""
• Apple Rant - Protean, May 14, 2022
• Beauty and the Laundry - Fevers of the Mind, April 27, 2022
• English as a Second Language - Rat's Ass Review, March 16, 2022
• The Okinawan Vessel of Love and Language - Discretionary Love, February 14, 2022
• My Okinawan Interlocutor Speaks at Sunrise - Bluepepper, January 24, 2022
• The Okinawan Aviculturist - Ariel Chart, January 16, 2022
• The Okinawan Lady Crowns Mother Earth - Ariel Chart, January 15, 2022
• Shiny and New Offering - Academy of the Heart and Mind, January 3, 2022
• Mad Mom - ""
• I Loved You Differently But I Loved You the Most - Roi Fainéant Press, January 2, 2022
• T Poem - Cult of Clio Issue 0, January 1, 2022
• Alone at Closing Time - "" (first published on the literary magazine's website on October 1, 2021)
• Via - DIAGRAM, November 1, 2021
• Ornithology - ""
• Splayed and Soaked - The Sparrow's Trombone, October 9, 2021
• Late Night Walk - ""
• Falling to Death by a Thousand Bumps - Fevers of the Mind, October 8, 2021
• Murder Most Fowl - COOP Zine, October 2, 2021
• Alone at Closing Time - Cult of Clio, October 1, 2021
• The Katipunero Returns Home - Rigorous, August 22, 2021
• Dear Deer - ""
• After the Swerve - ""
• charred remains - ""
• My Urban Certainties - Better Than Starbucks, August 1, 2021
• Blood-close - Fevers of the Mind, July 21, 2021
• Afternoon Catch - Woolgathering Review, June 28, 2021
• Well-wish - The 504 Magazine, June 6, 2021
• The Protracted Game - Love in the Time of COVID, A Chronicle of the Pandemic, June 3, 2021
• Dear Milo - Fevers of the Mind, June 2, 2021 (first published in The Poet Community, February 3, 2018)
• Dear Milo - Fevers of the Mind, June 2, 2021 (first published in The Poet Community, February 3, 2018)
• My Queen - Poetry Corner, Sanctuary Magazine, June 2, 2021
• At Low Tide - {m}aganda magazine, KAPWA Issue 34, May 24, 2021
• Dear Aesthete, This Could Turn Deadly - Undertow Poetry Review, May 20, 2021
• The Closest to the Real Thing - Sledgehammer, April 30, 2021
• The Closest to the Real Thing - Sledgehammer, April 30, 2021
• Casual Friends, Overnight at the Sunken Garden - Parks & Points & Poems 2021, April 26, 2021
• Typhoon in My Bathroom - Nature Matters, Earth Day Nature Anthology Volume 1 from poetryplanet.org, April 22, 2021
• Liquifascination at Breakfast - Eunoia Review, April 17, 2021
• in the garden of the dead - Not Deer Magazine, April 14, 2021
• Pop Poem from the Pew - Horror Sleaze Trash, April 14, 2021
• Tango on a High Wire - DENMARK: An Eyes Wide Shut Anthology by The Daily Drunk, April 14, 2021
• Reyna Elenita - Fevers of the Mind, April 7, 2021 (also included in Fevers of the Mind Press Presents the Poets of 2020 anthology, January 10, 2021)
• Stink - Dissident Voice newsletter's Poetry on Sunday section, April 4, 2021
• Three Summer Crucifixes - querencia Inaugural Issue (page 62), March 20, 2021
• Somewhere in Quezon City, Tuesday, 5:00 PM - NINSHAR Arts, March 18, 2021
• Light and Shade - ""
• Pieces of Vinyl Dreams - ""
• Magtalik Tayo sa Gitna ng EDSA - Revolt Magazine, March 10, 2021
• The Sun Worshipper - Imperial Death Cult, March 6, 2021
• Rosary - Bluepepper, February 25, 2021
• 3 minisons - The Minison Zine Issue #6: "XOXO Love Letters" (February 15, 2021)
• 15 monostich poems - "Outsourced!...", solo zine from Revolt Magazine, February 14, 2021
• Unfaithful - "Red Skies" anthology, Splintered Disorder Press, February 9, 2021
• Losing It - ""
• In a Split Second - ""
• Typo-em - Quatrain.fish, January 20, 2021
• The Tyranny of Waiting - Quatrain.fish, January 12, 2021
• Reyna Elenita - Fevers of the Mind Press Presents the Poets of 2020, January 10, 2021
• Writing Poetry in 2020 - Ariel Chart, January 8, 2021
• The Lines We Can Not Cross Back - Ariel Chart, January 8, 2021
• Floating Coffins - The Wombwell Rainbow, January 1, 2021 (First published in I am not a silent poet, March 30, 2016)
• A Quarantined Affair - Kistrech Poetry Festival's "Musings During a Time of Pandemic: A World Anthology of Poems on COVID-2019," December 25, 2020
• Morning, Just Like Any Other - The Wombwell Rainbow, December 24, 2020
• No Colonists, - Line Rider Press, November 18, 2020
• My Futile Search for Justice - Line Rider Press, November 11, 2020
• Afternoon Snack - Melbourne Culture Corner, November 6, 2020 (page 4)
• The Undoing - ""
• The Seas of You - Last Leaves - Issue 1, November 1, 2020 (page 56)
• Another Aubade - "", page 138
• Marlboro Man - Raven - Issue 13, October 31, 2020
• Under Torrential Rain- Quince Magazine, October 20, 2020
• The Alley Kitten- ""
• Walking Along the Alley, at Night- ""
• REM- 3 Moon Magazine, October 15, 2020
• Nirvana- ""
• The Vicious Cycle- ""
• Ode To My Face Mask and Mama - Little Old Lady Comedy, October 2, 2020
• A Marriage - Spank the Carp, October 1, 2020, also included in the StC 2020 Anthology
• Enrique González Martinez's Owl - Minnow Literary Magazine, September 29, 2020
• Pandemic: Community Poem - Muse-Pie Press, September 20, 2020 (I'm one of the contributors.)
• Royal Spaghetti - The Daily Drunk, September 20, 2020
• Untitled micro story - Boozy Shrek Photo Prompt, The Daily Drunk, August 25, 2020 (Yup, it's not a poem.)
• Only on Trains - Poetry and Covid, a "Project Funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, University of Plymouth, and Nottingham Trent University," August 21, 2020
• Panakip-butas - Pluma Manila, August 3, 2020
• Beach Money - Months To Years, July 31, 2020
• Post-Orgasm - Word Doodle Literary Magazine, July 19, 2020
• 24 Hours - ""
• Bampira - Pluma Manila, July 18, 2020
• Cubao Expo Smoking, Area - Literary Yard, July 12, 2020
• Twice Slain - ""
• Fantasia - ""
• Love in the Time of COVID- 19 - entered into the Philippine COVID Archive of the Filipinas Heritage Library (first published in Philippines Graphic on April 8, 2020)
• Hango sa Sulat ng Desaparecidong si Atty. Hermon Lagman sa Kanyang Nanay noong Siya'y nasa Piitan - Pluma Manila, July 6, 2020
• Provincial Potion - Thimble, June 28, 2020
• fire fetish - The Wombwell Rainbow's National Insect Poetry Challenge, June 27, 2020 (first published in Quatrain. fish , August 9, 2016)
• The Grand Theft - The Daily Drunk, June 25, 2020
• Pneumonia - (short / short creative nonfiction) - AKSYON: Dagli ng mga Eksenang Buhay (anthology), 7 Eyes Production, OPC, June 2020
• High Noon at the Metro Manila Rail Transit - Kamuning Station - Shot Glass Journal, June 7, 2020
• The Importuner - ""
• Broke, Not Broken - ""
• Social Distancing- NOSTALGIYA, Antolohiya ng mga Tula, Samahang Lazaro Francisco, May 31, 2020
• Post-Orgasm - Word Doodle Literary Magazine, July 19, 2020
• 24 Hours - ""
• Bampira - Pluma Manila, July 18, 2020
• Cubao Expo Smoking, Area - Literary Yard, July 12, 2020
• Twice Slain - ""
• Fantasia - ""
• Love in the Time of COVID- 19 - entered into the Philippine COVID Archive of the Filipinas Heritage Library (first published in Philippines Graphic on April 8, 2020)
• Hango sa Sulat ng Desaparecidong si Atty. Hermon Lagman sa Kanyang Nanay noong Siya'y nasa Piitan - Pluma Manila, July 6, 2020
• Provincial Potion - Thimble, June 28, 2020
• fire fetish - The Wombwell Rainbow's National Insect Poetry Challenge, June 27, 2020 (first published in Quatrain. fish , August 9, 2016)
• The Grand Theft - The Daily Drunk, June 25, 2020
• Pneumonia - (short / short creative nonfiction) - AKSYON: Dagli ng mga Eksenang Buhay (anthology), 7 Eyes Production, OPC, June 2020
• High Noon at the Metro Manila Rail Transit - Kamuning Station - Shot Glass Journal, June 7, 2020
• The Importuner - ""
• Broke, Not Broken - ""
• Social Distancing- NOSTALGIYA, Antolohiya ng mga Tula, Samahang Lazaro Francisco, May 31, 2020
• "Middle Class" Kuno - ""
• Bahay - ""
• Cosmetic Craniotomy - detritus, May 1, 2020
• The Insignificant Other - Small Orange, April 30, 2020 and in Small Orange: An Anthology (2020)
• My Minor Exigencies - Voicemail Poems, April 29, 2020 (first published in Scarlet Leaf Review, July 17,2018)
• Bahay - ""
• Cosmetic Craniotomy - detritus, May 1, 2020
• The Insignificant Other - Small Orange, April 30, 2020 and in Small Orange: An Anthology (2020)
• My Minor Exigencies - Voicemail Poems, April 29, 2020 (first published in Scarlet Leaf Review, July 17,2018)
• Love in the Time of COVID- 19 - Philippines Graphic, April 8, 2020
• Praxis - Philippines Graphic, April 8, 2020
• The Search for the Desaparecidos is a Resolute River - AFAD's Facebook post (April 8, 2020) and YouTube Channel(April 8, 2020)• Revelation- Duane's PoeTree, March 18, 2020
• The Essence of the Game- Boned: A Collection of Skeletal Writings, January 14, 2020; also included in BONED Every Which Way anthology 2020, April 16, 2021
• Lil 'Karoly - Rigorous, November 5, 2019
• Mi Cuerpo, Mi Alma - ""
• Untitled - Haikuniverse, October 18, 2019
• The Stigmatic - Blood Moon Rising Magazine, October 14, 2019
• The Butcher - ""
• Long Live - ""
• Coffee and Cigarette at the Balcony / Laundry Room - ""
• Autumn - Quatrain .fish, October 13, 2019
• Black Dog - collaborative poem with Henrie Diosa Jimenez , Gray Thoughts Writers Club gallery, August 31, 2019
• My Last Artwork- Black Bough Poetry Issue 2, July 20, 2019
• First Shot of the Philippine-American War, Feb. 4, 1899 " - Unlikely Stories Mark V, July 18, 2019
• Poetry and Plumbing -" "
• Tag-ulan Na Naman - Marías at Sampaguitas, July 11, 2019
• Kung Mabutas ang Kisame at Mahulog ang Dagang Kumakaluskos - Marías at
• Untitled - Haikuniverse, October 18, 2019
• The Stigmatic - Blood Moon Rising Magazine, October 14, 2019
• The Butcher - ""
• Long Live - ""
• Coffee and Cigarette at the Balcony / Laundry Room - ""
• Autumn - Quatrain .fish, October 13, 2019
• Black Dog - collaborative poem with Henrie Diosa Jimenez , Gray Thoughts Writers Club gallery, August 31, 2019
• My Last Artwork- Black Bough Poetry Issue 2, July 20, 2019
• First Shot of the Philippine-American War, Feb. 4, 1899 " - Unlikely Stories Mark V, July 18, 2019
• Poetry and Plumbing -" "
• Tag-ulan Na Naman - Marías at Sampaguitas, July 11, 2019
• Kung Mabutas ang Kisame at Mahulog ang Dagang Kumakaluskos - Marías at
Sampaguitas, ""
• Sumbat - Marías at Sampaguitas,
• At the Theater - BlogNostics, July 10, 2019
• Perfect - Poetry Breakfast, July 8, 2019
• Sumbat - Marías at Sampaguitas,
• At the Theater - BlogNostics, July 10, 2019
• Perfect - Poetry Breakfast, July 8, 2019
• Hubrisious - Gray Thoughts Writers Club gallery, May 12, 2019
• Soul Tango - Duane's PoeTree, April 30, 2019
• Passing by Atimonan, Quezon - Best Poetry, April 22, 2019
• She Doesn't Want Her Daughter to Think She's That Kind of Woman - Ariel Chart, July 2, 2019 (also featured in my poetry collection, "Metro Manila Mammal," Soma Publishing, 2018 and first published in Pacifiqa, July 9, 2015)
• The Disciples Ask - Ariel Chart, July 2, 2019 (also featured in my poetry collection,
' Metro Manila Mammal, "Soma Publishing, 2018)
• She's the Only One - BlogNostics, June 28, 2019
• Last Rites at the Public Hospital's ER - Collective Unrest, March 27, 2019
• She Doesn't Want Her Daughter to Think She's That Kind of Woman - Ariel Chart, July 2, 2019 (also featured in my poetry collection, "Metro Manila Mammal," Soma Publishing, 2018 and first published in Pacifiqa, July 9, 2015)
• The Disciples Ask - Ariel Chart, July 2, 2019 (also featured in my poetry collection,
' Metro Manila Mammal, "Soma Publishing, 2018)
• She's the Only One - BlogNostics, June 28, 2019
• Last Rites at the Public Hospital's ER - Collective Unrest, March 27, 2019
• Night Shift Snack Break - Collective Unrest, March 7, 2019
• Mob Rule - Collective Unrest, February 28, 2019, nominated for Best of the Net 2019
• Because neither subtlety ... - (republished in) Derelict Lit, January 24, 2019
• Empty Spaces - (republished in) Derelict Lit, January 24, 2019
• Mob Rule - Collective Unrest, February 28, 2019, nominated for Best of the Net 2019
• Because neither subtlety ... - (republished in) Derelict Lit, January 24, 2019
• Empty Spaces - (republished in) Derelict Lit, January 24, 2019
• Lahat na lang pinapatay... - Tanggol Wika Facebook page, December 12, 2018, as third place winner in Tanggol Wika's DALITEXT 2018 poetry contest, and featured in Prof. Joel Costa Malabanan's article about the contest published in Liwayway, January 14, 2019
• forest clearing at dawn - Rue Scribe, December 3, 2018
• alone in a forest, midnight - Rue Scribe, December 3, 2018
• creation story - Rue Scribe, December 3, 2018
• Typhoon Mangkhut's Morbid Stats - Poets Reading the News, September 21, 2018
• Justice - Tuck Magazine, October 27, 2017
• It Will be Done - Tuck Magazine, October 27, 2017
• How a Swan Dies - petrichor, October 2, 2017
• The Transcontinental Post-Mortem Rhapsody - The Asses of Parnassus, September 27, 2017
• The Last Shape Poem - Spillwords, September 16, 2017
• The Cult of Apathy - Matter, September 15, 2017
• Minor Miracle- Beneath the Rainbow, August 25, 2017
• Unfortunate Son - Beneath the Rainbow, August 25, 2017
• At Dusk - Beneath the Rainbow, August 25, 2017
• At the Cemetery, After the Rain - Beneath the Rainbow, August 25, 2017
• Found poem no. 4 - Me + You: Our Love Journal , August 7, 2017
• Found poem no. 3 - Me + You: Our Love Journal , August 7, 2017
• Found poem no. 2 - Me + You: Our Love Journal , August 7, 2017
• Found poem no. 1 - Me + You: Our Love Journal , August 7, 2017
• Corrosive Bloom - Ariel Chart, August 5, 2017
• Raining on EDSA, Riding on a Bus - Anak Sastra, July 30, 2017
• Troll - The Wayward Sword Resist issue , page 14, July 22, 2017
• Judas Jeep - ALPAS Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 1 (page 20), July 1, 2017
• To the mothers who lost their children to Typhoon Yolanda / Haiyan - Awake in the World, Riverfeet Press Anthology 2017 , June 29, 2017
• Traveling Through Mountain Province - NatureWriting, June 27, 2017
• Midnight Moon - NatureWriting, June 27, 2017
• Empty Spaces - Outcast Poetry, June 23, 2017
• The Gravity of Sadness - Wraith Infirmity Muses, June 4, 2017
• Untitled - Haikuniverse, June 3, 2017
• The Last Night - The Wayward Sword Challenging Submissions issue , page 9, May 11, 2017
• My Fishy Romance- The Wayward Sword "", page 18, May 11, 2017
• The Desperation of My Brethren - Anti-Heroin Chic, April 29, 2017
• DUI - Anti-Heroin Chic, April 29, 2017
• Landline - Eunoia Review, April 15 , 2017
• Taxation - Parody , April 1, 2017 issue (official date, but published later on June or July)
• Screaming the Small Stuff - Outsider Poetry, February 16, 2017
• This Afternoon, I Lost the Key - Outsider Poetry, February 16,
• The Neighborhood Exegete - Awakened Voices, February 1, 2017
• The Answer - Rat's Ass Review, January 21,2017
• Trains (2010) - Communicators League, January 16, 2017
• Summer Plunge - Spillwords, January 11, 2017
• Delicate Cruelty - Philippines Graphic, December 26, 2016
• It's Snowing in Manila ("R-18") - Philippines Graphic, December 26, 2016
• It's Snowing in Manila ("PG-13") - Antarctica Journal, December 26, 2016 and its The 2016 Anthology of Poetry
• Late Afternoon at the Fishpond - Peacock Journal, November 24, 2016, and its 1st Anthology: Beauty First , February 8, 2017
• Kites and Balloons in the City - Peacock Journal, November 24, 2016
• The Solitary Swing - Peacock Journal, November 24, 2016
• How a Cove is Formed - One Sentence Poems, November 23, 2016
• Misstep - Eternal Remedy, November 13, 2016, and its first anthology, Harvest , March 15, 2017
• Cardboard Justice - The Five-Two, October 24, 2016
• Ghost Debate - Yellow Chair Review's Horror 2016 issue, October 24, 2016
• While Reading Poetry I Killed an Ant - Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine, October 23, 2016
• Untitled - Haikuniverse, October 22, 2016
• Filipino Catholics in a Passenger Jeep - PILGRIM , September 2, 2016, and St. Gertrude the Great Catholic Church newsletter , February 19, 2017 (the latter publication, without my knowledge
• forest clearing at dawn - Rue Scribe, December 3, 2018
• alone in a forest, midnight - Rue Scribe, December 3, 2018
• creation story - Rue Scribe, December 3, 2018
• Typhoon Mangkhut's Morbid Stats - Poets Reading the News, September 21, 2018
• To Live, Love, Leave & Die Like My Favorite Hollywood Movie Character - The Broken Cassette, August 15, 2018
• A Den of Mannequins - Scarlet Leaf Review, July 19, 2018
• Asphyxiation - Scarlet Leaf Review, ""
• My Bedroom Door - Scarlet Leaf Review, ""
• My Minor Exigencies - Scarlet Leaf Review, ""
• Xmas Does Not Arrive in Metro Manila - Ariel Chart, June 16, 2018, nominated for Best of the Net 2018 (Also featured in my book, "Metro Manila Mammal," and first published in I am not a silent poet, December 13, 2017.)
• What's in a Spanish Name - The Ofi Press, May 25, 2018 (page 14)
• Accidental Book Burning - Kitaab, May 24, 2018, listed among The Best of Kitaab 2018
• Wisp - One Sentence Poems, May 12, 2018
• Dear Li'l Kaleb - Milk + Beans, April 20, 2018
• Nocturnal, Almost - Eclectica, April 18, 2018
• Shadow Play - Eclectica, April 18, 2018
• A Fool's Requiem for the Last Submission - The Submittable-Centric Poetry Contest gallery, April 17, 2018 (Won as runner-up!)
• Safe - Zingara Poetry Review, April 13, 2018
• lost causes - Ariel Chart, March 14, 2018
• hope, true & false - Ariel Chart, March 14, 2018
• Drunk at the Koi Pond - In Between Hangovers, March 7, 2018
• Translation into Tagalog of three lines from Dylan Thomas' poem, "And Death Shall Have No Dominion" - Human Rights Online Philippines, February 13, 2018; winner of the 8th (annual) HR Pinduteros Choice for HR Right-Up .
• I Grew Up on Sesame Street (in a Neo-Colony)- The Ramingo's Porch # 2, Feb. 13, 2018
• I Sent for the Clown, But . . . - Philippines Graphic, February 12, 2018
• From Pedro to Juan - Philippines Graphic, February 12, 2018
• Catatonia - Quatrain.fish, February 4, 2018
• Dear Milo - The Poet Community, February 3, 2018
• Remembering You - Ariel Chart, January 17, 2018
• Unseen Wounds - Ariel Chart, January 17, 2018
• Cold Stats - Poetry24, January 1, 2018
• Self-defense - Poetry24, January 1, 2018
• The Beautiful Presidential Granddaughter - Social Justice Poetry, December 27, 2017
• Keep It Hot! - Riddled With Arrows, December 21, 2017
• Xmas Does Not Arrive in Metro Manila - I am not a silent poet, December 13, 2017
• That Schoolyard Bully - Quatrain.fish, November 27, 2017
• Hot Sex in a Warm Place - Quail Bell Magazine, November 14, 2017
• Small Creatures in My Palanggana - Philippines Graphic, November 13, 2017
• The Secret Vignette - Bombinate Zine, November 8, 2017 • A Den of Mannequins - Scarlet Leaf Review, July 19, 2018
• Asphyxiation - Scarlet Leaf Review, ""
• My Bedroom Door - Scarlet Leaf Review, ""
• My Minor Exigencies - Scarlet Leaf Review, ""
• Xmas Does Not Arrive in Metro Manila - Ariel Chart, June 16, 2018, nominated for Best of the Net 2018 (Also featured in my book, "Metro Manila Mammal," and first published in I am not a silent poet, December 13, 2017.)
• What's in a Spanish Name - The Ofi Press, May 25, 2018 (page 14)
• Accidental Book Burning - Kitaab, May 24, 2018, listed among The Best of Kitaab 2018
• Wisp - One Sentence Poems, May 12, 2018
• Dear Li'l Kaleb - Milk + Beans, April 20, 2018
• Nocturnal, Almost - Eclectica, April 18, 2018
• Shadow Play - Eclectica, April 18, 2018
• A Fool's Requiem for the Last Submission - The Submittable-Centric Poetry Contest gallery, April 17, 2018 (Won as runner-up!)
• Safe - Zingara Poetry Review, April 13, 2018
• lost causes - Ariel Chart, March 14, 2018
• hope, true & false - Ariel Chart, March 14, 2018
• Drunk at the Koi Pond - In Between Hangovers, March 7, 2018
• Translation into Tagalog of three lines from Dylan Thomas' poem, "And Death Shall Have No Dominion" - Human Rights Online Philippines, February 13, 2018; winner of the 8th (annual) HR Pinduteros Choice for HR Right-Up .
• I Grew Up on Sesame Street (in a Neo-Colony)- The Ramingo's Porch # 2, Feb. 13, 2018
• I Sent for the Clown, But . . . - Philippines Graphic, February 12, 2018
• From Pedro to Juan - Philippines Graphic, February 12, 2018
• Catatonia - Quatrain.fish, February 4, 2018
• Dear Milo - The Poet Community, February 3, 2018
• Remembering You - Ariel Chart, January 17, 2018
• Unseen Wounds - Ariel Chart, January 17, 2018
• Cold Stats - Poetry24, January 1, 2018
• Self-defense - Poetry24, January 1, 2018
• The Beautiful Presidential Granddaughter - Social Justice Poetry, December 27, 2017
• Keep It Hot! - Riddled With Arrows, December 21, 2017
• Xmas Does Not Arrive in Metro Manila - I am not a silent poet, December 13, 2017
• That Schoolyard Bully - Quatrain.fish, November 27, 2017
• Hot Sex in a Warm Place - Quail Bell Magazine, November 14, 2017
• Small Creatures in My Palanggana - Philippines Graphic, November 13, 2017
• Justice - Tuck Magazine, October 27, 2017
• It Will be Done - Tuck Magazine, October 27, 2017
• How a Swan Dies - petrichor, October 2, 2017
• The Transcontinental Post-Mortem Rhapsody - The Asses of Parnassus, September 27, 2017
• The Last Shape Poem - Spillwords, September 16, 2017
• The Cult of Apathy - Matter, September 15, 2017
• Minor Miracle- Beneath the Rainbow, August 25, 2017
• Unfortunate Son - Beneath the Rainbow, August 25, 2017
• At Dusk - Beneath the Rainbow, August 25, 2017
• At the Cemetery, After the Rain - Beneath the Rainbow, August 25, 2017
• Found poem no. 4 - Me + You: Our Love Journal , August 7, 2017
• Found poem no. 3 - Me + You: Our Love Journal , August 7, 2017
• Found poem no. 2 - Me + You: Our Love Journal , August 7, 2017
• Found poem no. 1 - Me + You: Our Love Journal , August 7, 2017
• Corrosive Bloom - Ariel Chart, August 5, 2017
• Raining on EDSA, Riding on a Bus - Anak Sastra, July 30, 2017
• Troll - The Wayward Sword Resist issue , page 14, July 22, 2017
• Judas Jeep - ALPAS Journal, Vol. 1, Issue 1 (page 20), July 1, 2017
• To the mothers who lost their children to Typhoon Yolanda / Haiyan - Awake in the World, Riverfeet Press Anthology 2017 , June 29, 2017
• Traveling Through Mountain Province - NatureWriting, June 27, 2017
• Midnight Moon - NatureWriting, June 27, 2017
• Empty Spaces - Outcast Poetry, June 23, 2017
• The Gravity of Sadness - Wraith Infirmity Muses, June 4, 2017
• Untitled - Haikuniverse, June 3, 2017
• The Last Night - The Wayward Sword Challenging Submissions issue , page 9, May 11, 2017
• My Fishy Romance- The Wayward Sword "", page 18, May 11, 2017
• The Desperation of My Brethren - Anti-Heroin Chic, April 29, 2017
• DUI - Anti-Heroin Chic, April 29, 2017
• Landline - Eunoia Review, April 15 , 2017
• Taxation - Parody , April 1, 2017 issue (official date, but published later on June or July)
• Screaming the Small Stuff - Outsider Poetry, February 16, 2017
• This Afternoon, I Lost the Key - Outsider Poetry, February 16,
• The Neighborhood Exegete - Awakened Voices, February 1, 2017
• The Answer - Rat's Ass Review, January 21,2017
• Trains (2010) - Communicators League, January 16, 2017
• Summer Plunge - Spillwords, January 11, 2017
• Delicate Cruelty - Philippines Graphic, December 26, 2016
• It's Snowing in Manila ("R-18") - Philippines Graphic, December 26, 2016
• It's Snowing in Manila ("PG-13") - Antarctica Journal, December 26, 2016 and its The 2016 Anthology of Poetry
• Late Afternoon at the Fishpond - Peacock Journal, November 24, 2016, and its 1st Anthology: Beauty First , February 8, 2017
• Kites and Balloons in the City - Peacock Journal, November 24, 2016
• The Solitary Swing - Peacock Journal, November 24, 2016
• How a Cove is Formed - One Sentence Poems, November 23, 2016
• Misstep - Eternal Remedy, November 13, 2016, and its first anthology, Harvest , March 15, 2017
• Cardboard Justice - The Five-Two, October 24, 2016
• Ghost Debate - Yellow Chair Review's Horror 2016 issue, October 24, 2016
• While Reading Poetry I Killed an Ant - Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine, October 23, 2016
• Untitled - Haikuniverse, October 22, 2016
• Filipino Catholics in a Passenger Jeep - PILGRIM , September 2, 2016, and St. Gertrude the Great Catholic Church newsletter , February 19, 2017 (the latter publication, without my knowledge
• Because neither subtlety… - Razorhouse Magazine, August 31, 2016
• Vera Falls - Rambutan Literary, August 31, 2016
• Because fighting was his element - I am not a silent poet, August 21, 2016
• fire fetish - Quatrain.fish, August 9, 2016
• To Francisco Guevara, poet, longboarder - Radius, July 26, 2016
• Slicing Onions - Rat's Ass Review, July 24, 2016
• Miracles - Quatrain.fish, July 7, 2016
• Dead Drunk in Vientiane - Eastlit, July 3, 2016, poems listed among Eastlit 2016 Popular Asiatic Literature
• Leaving Quang Hiep Hotel, Hanoi (July, 2010) - Eastlit, July 3, 2016
• Metro Manila Miasma - Eastlit, July 3, 2016
• Untitled - The Fib Review, July 2, 2016
• Rustle - Shot Glass Journal, June 6, 2016
• The Truths of the Blind Elephant - Indiana Voice Journal, June 3, 2016
• The Agricultural Worker's Ode to Labor - Indiana Voice Journal, June 3, 2016
• Missing Parents - Quatrain.fish, May 8, 2016
• Chalice - Spank the Carp, May 2, 2016
• Floating Coffins - I am not a silent poet, March 30, 2016
• Oktoberfest - I am not a silent poet, March 4, 2016
• The Face of Poverty - I am not a silent poet, March 4, 2016
• Shadow on Bathroom Floor - Philippines Graphic, July 20, 2015
• Wing envy - Philippines Graphic, July 20, 2015
• She doesn't want her daughter to think she's that kind of woman - Pacifiqa, July 9, 2015
• Ode to Ariadne - Philippines Graphic, March 13, 2000
• Hallelujah for Our Holy Paranoia - Philippines Free Press, April 11, 1998
• To Someone Who All Along Was Not - Philippines Free Press, January 24, 1998
And more forthcoming in Eunoia, Witcraft, Absurdo Lírio, The Catholic Poetry Room, Revolt Magazine . . .
Thank you,
- my peers, who help hone my poems, in the 1) Modern Poetry Facebook page (mostly my classmates from the MOOC How Writers Write Poetry 2015 offered by The University of Iowa International Writing Program ), and 2) Rat's Ass Review online workshop ;
- litmags , for publishing my poems;
- Poets & Writers , The Review Review, Duotrope, Literistic, Six Questions For ..., Submittable's Submishmash Weekend Edition, Trish Hopkinson, Every Writer, New Pages, Authors Publish Magazine, and other resources for writers that lead me to various international publications - - and make me prouder of having my work featured in them;
- Origami Poems Project , for publishing my first print collection of poetry, You (2017),
- Soma Publishing , for publishing my first full-length collection, the ebook, Metro Manila Mammal (2018); and
- Black Bough Poetry and its #TopTweetTuesday weekly poetry sharing event on Twitter, the "victory parade" of poems where everybody can share and complement each other's work;
- whoever is lured into checking my blog and reading my poem(s). :-)
