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Literary London Symposium | Call for Papers

Literary London Symposium Call for Papers The Oxford and Cambridge Club in London December 15 - December 17, 2012 We would like to remind you to register for the Literary London Symposium to be held at The Oxford and Cambridge Club in London during the dates of December 15 – December 17, 2012. Registration will close on November 30th . The symposium will entertain papers written on subjects of literature, culture, arts, religion, capitalism and public education of the Dickensian Era through the Victorian Age. The Age of Dickens and the Age of Victoria were, combined, possibly the most dynamic century ever to exist in the English speaking world.    It was in 1837 that Victoria assumed the crown and in that same year Dickens’ published the final installment of the serial publication of The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. If you are interested in presenting a paper related to the Victorian Age or Charles Dickens , the abstracts are due by November 30, 2012 . ...
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Cover spread | Premanjali by Vijaya Kandpal

Aristos | Dungaw ed Kuritan a Pangasinan

NILA tan na-interview ak na grupo na istudyanti nanlapu’d Ateneo de Manila ed impangolo nen Lanz Patrick Hao Lin nen September 22 nipaakar ed saray anlong ko tan bilang sakey ya umaanlong a Pangasinan. Sayan interview et para ed research paper dan literary analysis na pigaran anlong a sinulat na sakey ya umaanlong ed sakey a luyag. Tan siak tan saray anlong ko so apili dan panaralan. Maliket ak ta likud ed UP Diliman tan UP Baguio, saray unibersidad dia’d Ibali ono Manila et aaralen da met la’y kuritan a Pangasinan. Pilalek kon dia’d saray unibersidad tayo ed Pangasinan et aralen da met so dili tayon awaran (history), kuritan (literature), tan kultura. Magnayon ka Ma'am Doris Senen Tuano na University of Pangasinan ta akabatan ko ed saray istudyanti yo ya itetekep yo so Pangasinan literature ed aaralen yon kuritan! Wala ni'ra komun so mamaistra / mamaistro ya aligen tan ontumbok ed gagawaen yo. Aliwan saya so unaan ya wala so nanggawa na thesis nipaakar ed saray anl...

DLSU Creative Writing Center Announces KRITIKA 2013 Workshop

The Bienvenido N. Santos Creative Writing Center of De La Salle University-Manila is inviting young critics to apply for fellowship to KRITIKA 2013: National Workshop on Art and Cultural Criticism. In collaboration with the University of St. La Salle-Bacolod (USLS), this workshop will be held on April 21-27, 2013. Eminent critic and professor Rolando Tolentino is workshop director. The workshop will focus on critical writing in the following arts: architecture, literature, theatre, film, dance, music, and the visual arts. It is envisioned to give young writers who want to commit themselves to art criticism a forum where they could discuss their work and concerns with established art critics in the country. Ten applicants will be chosen for the fellowships, which will include transportation stipend and free board and lodging at Balay Kalinungan, USLS-Bacolod. Manuscript should be an unpublished critical essay. It should be on work by Filipino artist/s. Preferred manuscripts are those th...

Aristos | Impambaroy ed Luyag na Panay

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Mabetbet no onkaili ak ed sakey e lugar ono pasen, saray sumusulat tan umaanlong so uunaen kon pakabatan. Tan dia’d impanwaywayak ya agano ed Iloilo tan Capiz dia’d luyag na Panay nen imbeneg a bulan na Agosto akapituyawan ko ira di Luis Batchoy, 2-time palanca winner; Ma. Lucille Manuel, sakey met ya umaanlong, pintor, tan galgalangen ya interior designer ed Capiz; tan say humahaiku tan primiadon umaanlong ed salitan Akeanon a si Melchor Cichon. Sakbay tonia ed akaiba mi nen Ms. Manuel si Sir Mel ed pandem tan inyawat da ed siak so pigaran libro da. Anggaman anggapo’y malaem ya oras pian manbayag ak diman, akabatan so kipapasen na salita tan kuritan ed Panay laut la ed lugar na Iloilo, Capiz, tan Aklan. Makatalus ak na daiset a salitan ilonggo kanian anggan pikewet so panagsalitak et akidalatdatan ako met. Ay ag nayarin natilak so maasnan dila no kuritan so pantutungtongan! Ompawil ak ed Capiz ed saya’y arapen a Nobiembri para ed sakey ya anlongan no bilang natultuloy iya. ******* Ap...

Writing Pangasinan literature urged

By Alex Romeo R. Fernandez LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, August 1 (PIA) -- Professional writers in this province urged blooming literary writers in a workshop Saturday to use the local language as their medium. Poet Santiago Villafania said the Pangasinan language lacks a large body of literature compared to other local languages. Critics in writers’ workshop in Manila and the Cordilleras are always asking why there are very few pieces of literature written in the language, he added. Author and lawyer Ferdinand Quinto noted that Pangasinan literature is already in long hiatus. Villafania and Quinto, along with Editor-in-Chief Sergio Bumadilla, served as the panelists during the first Pangasinan Writers’ Workshop held at the Capitol Resort Hotel here. Attending the workshop were at least 20 individuals who participated in the First Pangasinan Literary Contest Kurit Panlunggaring last April. Non-winning entries in the literary contest were critiqued in the workshop, where the local language was ...

ASNA Park Revisited

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1st Kurit Awiran | Pangasinan Creative Writing Workshop

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Atty. Ferdie Quintos tan saray fellows (Kapituyaw batch) na sankaunaan ya Kurit Awiran. Saray duaran ikikinon a sumusulat tan umaanlong a Pangasinan - Sergio Bumadilla tan Atty. Ferdie Quintos.

Aristos | Pinoy Poets’ Circle Poetry Reading ed Pasig

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AGAWA so sankaunaan ya anlongan odino poetry reading na Pinoy Poets’ Circle (sakey ya ulupan na umaanlong, sumusulat, pintor tan arum ni’ran artists ya atogiop ed facebook) nen koma-14 na Hulio dia ed Runners’ Burger Chill & Grill dia’d Brgy. Kapitolyo, Pasig City. Indawat da’yan anlongan nen Joanna Allas tan Danny Castillones Sillada. A fun evening of wine, poetry, music, and skype ya kuan ta akibiang ira'y ikikinon iran umaanlong tan sumusulat a sikara di Gemino Abad, Krip Yuson, Luigi Francia, Marne Kilates, Arnold Molina Azurin, Lila Shahani, Alma Anonas-Carpio, Ramón Sunico, Nonilon Queano, Dakila Cutab, Joel Pablo Salud, Joel M. Toledo, Dino Manrique, J. Neil Garcia, Heber Bartolome, Mac McCarty, Benjamin Muego, Amang Reyes, Anne Carly Abad, Johanna Carissa Fernandez, Alan Rivera, Richard Gappi, Santíago Víllafanía, Ruby Basilan-Varona, tan arum ni’ra. Maawaran iyan anlongan ta akapananlong ira di Ms. Luisa A. Igloria, Albert B. Casuga tan Felix Fojas ed panamegley na sky...

Anthology of Ilokano erotic poetry to be launched in Baguio this August 3

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Alimpatok, anthology of Ilokano erotic poetry, will be formally launched in a double-launching on August 3, 2012, Friday. The first launch of the book will be held at a poetry reading session at the Library of the University of the Philippines Baguio, 2-4 PM, as part of the Buwan ng Wika celebration of the University. Another launch will also happen on the same day, in a poetry jamming, at 6-8 PM, at Mt. cloud Bookshop, Casa Vallejo, Upper Session Road, Baguio City. The book, edited by Ariel S. Tabag, Roy V. Aragon and Mighty C, Rasing, is the first Ilokano erotic book, features erotic poems by 33 Ilokano poets in the Philippines and abroad. The 140-page book which measures 6x9 inches will be sold at a discounted price on the double-launch. You may also order through email address saniata.publications@gmail.com or cellphone number 0918-682-6330.

Poem | In Our Own Age of Renaissance

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this is our duty O proud Pangasinan: rewrite our history in the language of salt let us build more than concrete cities for what is a city without a soul? defile the icons of politics replace their crooked faces with the mighty & the mythical sons & daughters of Urduja first & foremost let us reclaim our unBabeled tongue Pangasinan & the dying embers of our literature for a people without literature are a people without culture a people without which have no identity a people without identity are nothing but question marks & ampersands

Pinoy Poets' Circle | Poetry Reading

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Aristos | Sunday Punch

PANGASINANITUDE – aya so impaltaw kon salita ed Inglis bilang sakey a pamagalang ono pandaragup ed kultura tan inkatoo na Pangasinan a nayarin tayon ipatalus ya “ celebration of Pangasinan culture and character ”. Masalindak ya atoor so Pangasinan Cultural Night tan intaguri met ya “ Itandoro so Pangasinan: Glimpses of Pangasinan Life and Culture ” ya agawa nen Hunio 19, alasais na labi dia’d ChickaRue Resto ed Conception Aguila Street, San Miguel, Manila. Sayan impandaragup et impangiter na galang ed say ikikinon tayon Pangasinan folklorist ya si Perla Samson-Nelmida aman, inyanak ed abitlan agew; tan imbansag met la so kulminasion na Sesquicentennial nen Rizal. Labi iman na kansion, sayaw, tan anlong. Naimatunan tan narngel ko’y inka-virtouso tonia’y Andrew Bryan Sapigao, sakey a manaltalon pianista tan apo nen madam Perla. Pinmaway met ya anganlong so ritaradan propisora tan umaanlong ya si Rosa Maria Magno, say akansulat na Urduja Beleaguered (1992) tan talora nin libro na anlong ...

Cover study: Premanjali - Hindi translation of Murtami & Other Poems

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Cultural Night honors Perla Samson-Nelmida

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A PANGASINAN Cultural Night dubbed “Itandoro so Pangasinan: Glimpses of Pangasinan Life and Culture” will held on June 19, 6pm at the ChickaRue Resto in Conception Aguila Street, San Miguel, Manila. The event is in honor of the late Perla Samson-Nelmida, whose birth anniversary was June 19, and to mark the end of Rizal's Sesquicentennial. “All these efforts through the decades to promote Pangasinan culture through cultural festivals, formation of organizations such as OLUPAN and its paper Balon Silew would have not been realized if not through the works and ideas of my late mother,” said daughter Ma. Crisanta Nelmida-Flores, a UP Diliman professor and part-time Commissioner for Pangasinan Language with the Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino. Dinner tickets are at Php500 each, which covers Pangasinan cultural night food, songs, dances, poetry readings by Pangasinan artists, Tambayo Cultural Group, Matalonggaring Dance Troupe and a tribute to Samson-Nelmida. The tickets will also serve as ...

Aristos | Sunday Punch

APATIRA kamin taga-Pangasinan ed labin-anem ya apilin fellows ed 3rd Cordillera Creative Writing Workshop odino palian ya agawa ed Hotel Supreme dia’d Magsaysay Avenue, Baguio City nen Mayo 22 angga’d 26, 2012. Kaibak ira di Mark Anthony B. Austria (Bugallon), Jesamyne A. Diokno (San Carlos), tan Jonavey Grace C. Dupagan (Malasiqui). Tan inngaran mi so batch mi na Unas. No nayari komun agko labay la so mila ni ed sakey a palian pian naipalugar ko la ed saray wala ni’d kalangweran, bangta kapilitan ta pilalek kon naaralan met no panon da yaantabay tan gagawaen so creative writing workshop a kuan basi ed panuntunan da’ray palian ed lapag a bansa a singa dia’d Silliman, UP, UST, tan Ateneo. Nakaukulan tayo iya ed litiratura ono kuritan a Pangasinan pian silalon naubol ira’y umaanlong tan sumusulat tayo ed nanduruman istilo tan genre na panagsulat laut la ya wala so ginapuan lan paliagan a Kurit Panlunggaring no iner bibirbiren tan iitdan na gamor ira’y sankamaungan tan manaltalon anlong,...

Sonnet to a Pilgrim Soul in Ivatan language

Soneto para du pahad a manta su sagrado an ayuvan nu araw u hanyit du mavukhas du kapaypaaysu dana nu malatiat adngeyen mu paw tudhavas a kana ta mirwa mu pa va madas u liak an maniwang su vuhawan a papanid u mavukhas as ka ji na makapliliak nu asul a hanyit tumideb kad marayi as pamistan mu saw mawayid mu mavuya du karuan tayaynep mu mangsah ka va, ichaddaw a pahad a manta an ichalijat nu mundu u kapakasiasi mu sumuhaw anchi u paninideb da anchuwa gumtus sa anchuri utru du palak ta ya asa ka umang a abus' mimian an nanghavas dana u viay ta du araw (Translated into Ivatan Leah Baroña Cruz)

when seasons

when seasons are a-changing summer's back into its fold there will i be awaiting on the verdant green & gold on yellow rolling hillocks where i will be the soft breeze the zephyr wind on your locks or the drowsy tenderness that will unpoem the scarlet tune of the lavender spring o sing with me then & let us be one heartbeat throbbing till the showers of autumn fall like the vermillion rain on a tangerine blossom whose name is a sweet refrain & i will be there with you till the blue wings of winter takes its flight & bids adieu to our rhymed days of thunder

Erolalia | Hindi translation by Vijaya Kandpal

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श्रृंगार के स्वर आज रात मैं अबेलार्ड हूँ, मेरी हेलोईस | मैं गाऊंगा तुम्हारे गीत भरे होठों, तुम्हारे उभारों, जंघाओं और मीठे आश्चर्य को| जब तुम्हारी वस्त्रहीन दावत में, मेरा हृदय सब प्रतिज्ञाएँ तोड़ देगा| कूट भी दूंगा देवताओं के कपाल और वक्ष पाने के लिए लिए तुम्हें भयभीत नहीं हूँ मैं, मृत्यु हो या समय| मैं चुम्बनों से आभूषित करूँगा तुम्हारे हिमालय से उभारों को होगा ह्रदय मेरा एवेरेस्ट की ऊंचाइयों पर जब तुम्हारे गर्वीले उभारों का जोड़ा फँस जायेगा मेरे अधरों के बीच| नष्ट करो मुझे आहिस्ता-आहिस्ता प्रिय! रात की इस मृत्यु की सी शांति में त्यागते हुए रेशमी वस्त्र गुलाबी टखनों पर| छुपा लो मुझे कोमलता से छिपा लो मुझे, अपने समस्त आकर्षण से पूर्वी देह में| देखकर गुलाबों को तुम्हारे गाल के मैं अवाक् हूँ | और अवाक् हूँ तुम्हारे अधरों का, गालों का और उन्नत उभारों का सोमरस चख कर| शांत नन्ही कवितायेँ जो गीत बनायेंगी, मैं गाऊंगा तुम्हारे लिए| जैसे कि वो ईडन के अंतिम फूल हों , जैसे कि वो ईडन के अंतिम फल हों| मैं समीप आऊंगा तुम्हारे, चांदनी सा सफ़ेद, तारे सा तेज़ थामुंगा तुम्हें| कोमलता से, सोम्यता से बिन...