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Naawat ko la so appointment ko nen imbeneg ya a-15 na Agosto 2013 bilang sakey ed saray intalagan komisioner na Pangasinan Historical and Cultural Commission (PHCC). Panaon met la pian panserbian ko’y pinablin luyag na Pangasinan. Kabiangan na komision so PHCC Chair a si Dr. Gonzalo Duque tan saray miembro: Dr. Perla E. Legaspi, Ms. Virginia Jasmin Pasalo, Sis. Mary John Manansan, Ms. Arabella V. Arcinue, Ms. Nida P. Vergara, Mr. Restituto Basa, Fr. Weng Escano, Ms. Elvira Estravo, Vice Governor Ferdinand Z. Calimlim, Jr., and Board Member Ranjit Shahani.  Wala’y angiyesaes ed siak ya duara so pampipilian da para ed National Artist for Literature: si Magdalena G. Jalandoni (1891- 1978), sakey a bantog a sumusulat ed salitan Hiligaynon a sulming ed mamasagur na Visayas; tan si Cirilo F. Bautista (1941-), sakey a premiadon umaanlong, nobilista, kritiko tan sumusulat na nonfiction.  Abitla da aminsan ed siak nen Sir Cirilo a say ama ra et taga-Pangasinan. Sakey ira ...

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Umaanlong (The Poet) By Santiago B. Villafania you left us with naught but remnants of your past lives in earthen jars your poems are flowers in the wind that we no longer remember you have no marble monuments no monolith or obelisk no remembrance of your prowess but names in ancient syllables your drowsy songs outlived your youth though we sing them now at the wakes and the spirits of your rice wine too bitter now for our own taste and the cup of your last supper that too is buried with your earth this is how you abandoned us here in the crescent land of salt Translation in Arabic by Nizar Sartawi الشاعر سانتياغو فيلافانيا ترجمة نزار سرطاوي لم تترك لنا شيئاً سوى بقايا حيواتك السالفة في أوانٍ فخارية قصائدك ليست سوى أزهار في الرياح لم نعد نتذكرها ليست لك أية نُصُب تذكارية من رخام أو أعمدة أو مِسلّات لا أحد يذكر بسالتك إلا أسماء من مقاطع قديمة أغانيك الناعسة عاشت من بعدك مع أننا لا نغنيها إلا في الاحتفالات الكنسية وارواح نبيذك المصنوع من ا...

Tumatagaumen (The Storyteller) they disappeared one after the other like epiphytic plants that once cupped the breasts of our virgin forests the muses left their sun-flowered brae when they heard no more the stories and the brown songs of Caboloan the rice fields turned from green into gray without laughter without poetry not even a day of remembrance they went away into silence leaving their random biographies behind unsigned in the province of our minds now they are still forgotten until we learn how to remember and reclaim what is ours to reclaim their place in the history of the living القاصّ للشاعر الفليبيني سانتياغو فيلافانيا ترجمة نزار سرطاوي اختفت واحدة إثر أخرى مثل النباتات الهوائية التي كانت يوماً تمسك بأثداء غاباتنا العذراء إلاهات الشعر رحلت عن سفوحها المكسوة بأزهار تَبّاع الشمس حين لم تعد تسمع القصصَ والأغاني البُنيّة في كابولون حقول الرز تحول لونها من الأخضر إلى الرمادي بلا ضحك بلا قصائد ولا حتى يومٍ واحد من الذكرى خلدت جميعاً إلى الصمت مُخلّفة...

The Philippine Center of International PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Essayists, Novelists) will hold “For Love of the Word:  Workshops on Teaching Philippine Literature in High School and College” on August 12 (Monday), from 8:30 to 4:30 pm, at the University Conference Hall, Capitol University, Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental. Award-winning writers and professors of literature Ricardo de Ungria and Timothy Montes will be the resource speakers/facilitators. As a component of PEN International’s Beacon Centre Programme, this project is part of the series of teacher-training workshops organized by the Philippine Center across the country. It seeks to enhance the skills of literature teachers in both secondary and tertiary levels, especially on the teaching of poetry, fiction, and drama by Filipino authors. Previous workshops were held in Manila, Iloilo, Cebu, Baguio, Naga, and Bohol. This workshop is co-hosted by Capitol University, and supported by PEN International in London and t...

Kada bansa a walaan na mabilay tan mabunan litiratura et walaan met na tatawagen a literary movements: romanticism, transcendentalism, realism, symbolism, surrealism, dadaism, postmodernism, magical realism, new formalism, beat, tan arum ni’ran ism a nipaakar ed kuritan ono litiratura. Dia’d Filipinas, say ‘propaganda movement’ no iner kabiangan si palbayanin Jose P. Rizal, Veronicans nen 1930s, Ravens nen 1950s (kabiangan ira di Adrian Cristobal, Virginia Moreno, Alejandrino Hufana, Andres Cristobal Cruz, Hilario Francia Jr., tan arum ni’ra), say Bagay poets na Ateneo nen 1960s (Rolando Tinio, Bienvenido Lumbera, Jose Lacaba, tan Edgar Alegre), tan say Philippine Literary Arts Council nen 1980s (Gemino H. Abad, Cirilo Bautista, Alfrredo Navarro Salanga, Ricardo de Ungria, tan Alfred Yuson). Saraya so ulupan da’ra’y sumusulat tan umaanlong kaiba met la’ra’y wala ‘ra’d rihion ya anibokel na kuritan ed lapag a bansa. Dia’d luyag tayo, tinugyop nen Pablo Mejia so Awaran na Pangasinan n...

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i am running out of poetry to name your otherness tonight i am sending one again: words to nowhere even the night conpires to hide the longings of your heart it only knows silence but i am always listening until a word returns with a news * * * Sono in apnea di Santiago Villafania traduz. di Mario rigli Sono in apnea di poesia per dire della tua diversità Questa notte ancora invio parole incontro al nulla Ogni notte cospiro per nascondere desideri del tuo cuore Lui conosce solo il silenzio ma resto sempre in ascolto fino a quando una parola non rimbomba come una notizia

Santiago Villafania is a bilingual Filipino poet who writes in English and in his native language of Pangasinan. Born in Tuliao, Sta. Barbara, Pangasinan on 31 January 1971, Villafania graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Pangasinan in 1991. Villafania advocates for the resurgence of Pangasinan as a literary language. His works in the vernacular are some of the most representative, if not among the few that comprise that Pangasinan contemporary literary body. In his first book Balikas na Caboloan (Verses from Caboloan), the Pangasinan anlong resurfaces asserting its tradition amidst intersecting and pollinating genres and literary influences. His book of poems, Malagilion: Sonnets tan Villanelles , is an attempt to open the propylaea of literary renaissance in Pangasinan. This second book by Pangasinan’s leading poet today is impressive in both form and substance. Villafania has created 300 sonnets and 50 villanelles in his own language that a...

Arap-arapen la’y Hunio lamet tan ed saya’y iloob da’ra’y ogugaw ed iskwuilaan ono awiran, usaren la ima’y tatawagen a mother tongue-based (MTB) education no iner say ikanan pambangat et say salitan uusaren na manaaral dia ed abung odino say abangonan a salita. Kuan da’ra’y iksperto lanti mas mainumay a makaaaral so ugaw no igapo iyan bangatan ed dili ton dila. Dakel balet so patbek tan baleg a problima so arapen da’ra’y mamaistra tan mamaistro. Wadtan a problima so usaren dan tiksbuk ono libro, wadtan a problima no wala so nilaok ed klasi ra so manaaral ya say salita to et Ilocano ono Tagalog tan agto nagogo’y anggatel no makarngel la’y man-Pangasinan, tan wadtan a problima so kakabatan na managbangat ed salitan Pangasinan. Laut lan wadtan so problima ed ortograpiya ta agni naigalut ima’y isasambot dan panuntunan tayo ed ortograpiya. Anto so usaren “abeceda” odino “abakada”? Ay! sigi paladtan! Paipaway tayo la ed Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF) so unaan a sipi insan tayo la apigere...

nen Santiago Villafania Congratulations ed saray ASNA tan Balitok awardees tayo ed saya’y koma-433n Agew na Pangasinan! Saray maASNAn Romeo C. Mananquil (Visual Arts), Dr. Josephine Arquillano (Fisheries Education), Brig. Gen, Antonio L. Tamayo (Education and Culture); saray ASNA-Balitok Dr. Florangel Rosario Braid (Journalism and Development Communication), tan Sr. Mary John Mananzan, OSB (Women Studies and Feminist Activism). Say malayug tan maluyag kon pangirayew ed sikayon Asin a mabli na Pangasinan, Silew ed Bilonget, Nabang tan yaman ed kaluyagan, tan Antabay na kalangweran! ******* Manlapu ed saray kaibak iran hurado a sikara di Al Mendoza, Sergio Buladilla, tan Atty. Ferdinand Quintos, say masimoon min pangikinon ed sikayoran analo ed 2nd Kurit Panlunggaring. Poetry (Adult Division): Jahwela Querimit Ocay, Alma A. Nepascua, Mark Anthony B. Austria; Poetry (Youth Division): Kim John Santillan, Kristine Dawn B. Dudang, Ma. Angela L. Rosal; Essay (Youth Division): Angela Kate Estr...

ومضات للشاعر الفليبيني سانتياغو فيلافانيا ترجمة نزار سرطاوي 1. يسمتها نسيم الصباح الذي تزهر له ألف زنبقة 2. أتمنى لو كان بوسعي أن أرسمك بكلمات عارية لا يقدر أحد على النطق بها ذلك هو نقاؤك! 3. حجرتي الخاوية فضائي الخاص كَم هُما ممتلآن بكِ! مع أنّكِ لستِ هنا 4. حاجّانِ – أنت وأنا قبّرةٌ وبلبل في سماءٍ سارقة قَبّلي النهارَ أيتها الشفاهُ الوحشية وسوف احتضنُ الليل 5. ابتسامتكِ لمسةُ الشمس الدافئة على خديّ قُبْلَةُ النسيم على شفتيّ تتمنى لي نوماً هنيئاً 6. حرارةُ نوقمبر – ذكرى المطر على بشرتي نسيمُ الصباح – إذ يتوق إلى عناقكِ الدافئ في يوم كهذا 7. هذه الليلة يا حبيبتي سوف أنام وحدي وأتذكر ضحكات صوتك المفعم بالفتنة حتى أنّه يشي بهندسة قلبي والبرج السماوي لروحي Epigrams Santíago Víllafanía 1. her smile the morning breeze to blossom a thousand tulips 2. if i could paint you with words too naked to be spoken that’s your immaculacy! 3. my empty room my private space so full of you you’re not even here 4. pilgrims − you a...

Nibana ya kabansag na Taboan so New Delhi World Book Fair ya agawa nen 4-10 Pebriro 2013 ed Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. Imparlas nen a-5 na Pebriro so libro na anlong ko ed Inglis ya impatalus nen Vijaya Kandpal ed salitan Hindi a walaa’y titulon ‘Premanjali’ tan inggalut na managpalapag a Bodhi Prakashan. Introduction by Amrendra Kumar Sharma, Assistant Professor, Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University, Wardha. He is a critic, poet and writer, has published a book entitled, ‘Emergency: Hindi Literature And Journalism’ from Prakashak Sahitya Bhandar Vijaya is a journalist by profession, writes poems and short stories. Vijaya is an upcoming poet who has turned the poesie of a distant land into our own land’s poems. She has translated Santiago B Villafania’s book of unpublished poems ‘Murtami’ into Hindi entitled ‘ Premanjali’. Its poems embrace us with a unique tone and melody, and we remain in it for a long time. ‘swansong of the sea’ (translated into ‘ Nadi ka Antim Geet’), A N...

Nominations to the Search for Most Outstanding Pangasinenses for the 2013 ASNA Awards is now open. The ASNA Awards is Pangasinan’s most selective and prestigious awards body that gives recognition to outstanding Pangasinenses whose selfless dedication to their profession or vocation has resulted in outstanding contri bution to the welfare of the people of Pangasinan and to the country at large. Nominees maybe those who excelled in the fields of government service, community service, arts and culture, medicine, agriculture and aquaculture, mass communications, business and entrepreneurship, law, education, science and technology and sports. Qualification for nomination are as follows: nominees must be a Filipino citizen, born in Pangasinan or has Pangasinan ancestry, not an incumbent elected public official, must truly be a Pangasinan at heart, happy and proud to be one; must have complied with all rules governing nomination and should be alive and able to attend the aw...

ANACBANUA (Child of the Sun), say manaltalon pilikulan anlong ed salitan Pangasinan nen Christopher Gozum ya akagamor na Prix de Signes award dia ed 10th International Festival Signes de Nuit ed Paris, France nen im beneg ya Oktobri. Analo met na Digital Lokal Lino Brocka grand prize tan best director award dia ed Cinemanila fest nen 2009. Impalabas iya ed Tele Bocal, sakey a French channel, nen Oct. 26, 2012. Sakbay tonia et impalabas met ed nanduruman film festivals dia ed Mumbai, Bangkok, Jeonju, tan Prague. Araraya! Magnayon ka agin Chris ed impangilayug mo ed pilikulan Pangasinan. * * * * Naimbitaan ak saya’y arapen a Taboan 2013: The Philippine Writers Festival ya nagawa no Pibriro 7-9, 2013 dia ed Dumaguete City. Kaiba so sanlasus ya sumusulat-diligado a manlapu’d manduraman pasen na bansa tan pigaran sumusulat manlapu’d biek-taew. Mi-taboan met so taloran National Artists for Literature. Wala ak ed komasiam a panel no iner idalatdat tan pantungtungan mi so ...

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Esaes ed Kareenan tan arum ni’ran Anlong nen Santiago B. Villafania Unang Gantimpala, 2007 Gawad Komisyon (Gantimpalang Tamayo sa Tulang Pangasinan) sonito 29 The poet is not a “little god”. No, he is not a “little god”.   – Pablo Neruda say umaanlong et aliwan dyus ono makapanyarin anito ya pantelekteleken to’y mundo ed mangaraldalin a salita no ag ta sakey a gumagawa atomo’d molikyular ya mundo tan sakey a bengatlan tanila dia ed dinidyus ya uniberso say umaanlong et managlaga dia’d banwa’y sinuso tin salita nipanon ya wala’y kakabatan ed mistirio na sansinakuban bangbalet aliwan sakey a dyus andi aliwa met ya dinidyus sonito 95 dia’d kapelag da’ra’y bolobolong dia’d kaputer da’ra’y sangasanga dia’d kabagut da’ra’y lamulamut tan dia’d katumba da’ra’y kakiewan wala’y onsandi ‘ran bini-bini ya onsalat ed saray naandi wala’y   panaon da ya ontubo ed santiagew ono sibilao nayarin nabuas o dia’d bengatla wala’y ombetag ya bokebokel tan ompalaway ira’y palakay ya mangikurit na ...

I got this info from my bard-brother Jose Jason Chancoco , the acclaimed author of “Pagsasatubuanan: Poetikang Bikolnon”. This a chain letter for writers where the recipient has to answer ten questions about their latest or upcoming book. So as not to break the chain, I am posting this to my blog or personal website at www.dalityapi.com 1. What is the title of your latest/upcoming book? My latest book “Pinabli & Other Poems” is a collection of Pangasinan poetry with selected translations in Filipino, English, and Spanish. Currently completing my latest book of poetry in English with the title “Murtami & Other Poems”. 2. Where did the idea come from for the book? Having learned about the paucity of published works in Pangasinan language/literature, I started writing poetry in my native tongue in 2001 and self-published the first version in 2003. Its publication is an attempt to open the propylaea of literary renaissance in Pangasinan. 3. What genre does your book fall under? Poe...