Start:	Mar 18, '08 07:00a
End:	Apr 30, '08
Location:	UP Diliman

Start: Mar 18, '08 06:00a
End: Apr 30, '08 5:00p
Location: UP Diliman

U.P. CENTENNIAL LITERARY CONTEST DEADLINE EXTENDED

The deadline for submission of entries to Gawad Likhaan: The University of the Philippines Centennial Literary Prize has been extended to April 30, 2008, Wednesday, at 5 p.m.

Gawad Likhaan was created by the UP Centennial Commission to celebrate the University’s 100th year. It is administered by Likhaan: The UP Institute of Creative Writing (UP-ICW).

There are six awards, each one worth Php 200,000, for original, book-length works in English or Filipino in three categories: the novel or short story collection; poetry collection; and full-length work or collection of creative nonfiction or sanaysay.

For more info:

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Gawad Likhaan extended

A fellow Flickr addict -- Roman "shexbeer" Sołowiej, of GDAŃSK, Poland, http://www.flickr.com/photos/shexbeer/2123766970/ and http://www.shexbeer2.blogspot.com -- posted photos from his vacation last year in UK. They stayed in Tutshill near JK Rowling’s country house.

 

He gave me permission to blog this photo.

Safe Sex Poems.

The Baguio Writers Group is mulling on giving away prizes for the safest and the sexiest poems during the poetry reading at Rumours Bar along Session Road, Baguio City on Dec. 1, Aids Day, at 9:30 pm.      

The audience may vote for which is the safest and which is the sexiest.                                                                                                                         

                                                                                                            Posporo Flower (ha-ha-ha!)
1.   Safe Sex by Donald Hall*                                    

<http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/264>

If he and she do not know each other, and feel confident

they will not meet again; if he avoids affectionate words;

if she has grown insensible skin under skin; if they desire

only the tribute of another's cry; if they employ each other

as revenge on old lovers or families of entitlement and steel—

then there will be no betrayals, no letters returned unread,

no frenzy, no hurled words of permanent humiliation,

no trembling days, no vomit at midnight, no repeated

apparition of a body floating face-down at the pond's edge

 *From “White Apples and the Taste of Stone” Copyright (c) 2006 by Donald
Hall. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.

 

2.   Safe Sex Sonnet by Mary Mila**

When reason calls to be set free
the mind need always fashion cause
and cloister want behind staid dress
though somehow, someday, we all face death.

When passion calls to be given reign
there's reason enough to stall
to check the flesh and rising blood
and clothe desire beneath a hood.

One avenue is straight and paved
another barely cleared.
Both seed and harvest need their season
and flesh and blood their time to leaven

**This just came out from Three Quarks Daily:
 

3.   Social Security by Terrence Winch

No one is safe. The streets are unsafe.
Even in the safety zones, it's not safe.
Even safe sex is not safe.
Even things you lock up in a safe
are not safe. Never deposit anything
in a safe-deposit box, because it
won't be safe there. Nobody is safe
at home during baseball games anymore.

At night I go around in the dark
locking everything, returning
a few minutes later
to make sure I locked
everything. It's not safe here.
It's not safe and they know it.
People get hurt using safety pins.

It was not always this way.
Long ago, everyone felt safe. Aristotle
never felt danger. Herodotus felt danger
only when Xerxes was around. Young women
were afraid of wingèd dragons, but felt
relaxed otherwise. Timotheus, however,
was terrified of storms until he played
one on the flute. After that, everyone
was more afraid of him than of the violent
west wind, which was fine with Timotheus.
Euclid, full of music himself, believed only
that there was safety in numbers.

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Press Release

*"Ribbed, Dotted or Strawberry: Poetry Reading on Safe Sex"*

The Baguio Writers Group and Ubbog (a group of young Cordillera writers)
will hold a poetry reading on safe sex Dec. 1 at 9:30 p.m. at Rumours Bar on
Session Road, Baguio City.

The event marks International AIDS Day. Entitled "Ribbed, Dotted or Strawberry," the reading features 10 poets who will celebrate sex and romance without life-changing results like pregnancy and STD.

Open-mike reading follows. Volunteer readers are welcome and encouraged not to be intimidated by the subject. Safe sex has a wide scope.

As one of the members said, it could just be gazing at the moon and thinking of the beloved. Or it can be as raunchy as torrid kissing, heavy petting, mutual masturbation. You may read your own stuff, read another's or heckle those whose idea this is.

The poems that will be read for the night include Ma. Luisa Igloria’s latest poem sent from Ragdale(USA) where she's on an artist's residency; she composed "Osculation Station" for the event, while Babeth Lolarga will read an excerpt from her long poem "From the Calendar of Anger."

Please text or email Babeth Lolarga if you'll be in the shortlist of 10 readers. Her number is 0916-242-1637.

The sponsors are Rumours, Philippine NGO Council on Health, Population and Welfare and DKT Philippines.

Start:	Dec 1, '07 9:30p
Location:	Rumours Bar, Session Rd, Baguio City

*"Ribbed, Dotted or Strawberry: Poetry Reading on Safe Sex"*

The Baguio Writers Group and Ubbog (a group of young Cordillera writers)
will hold a poetry reading on safe sex.

Dec. 1 at 9:30 p.m. at Rumours Bar
Session Road, Baguio City.

The event marks International AIDS Day. Entitled "Ribbed, Dotted or Strawberry," the reading features 10 poets who will celebrate sex and romance without life-changing results like pregnancy and STD.

Open-mike reading follows. Volunteer readers are welcome and encouraged not to be intimidated by the subject. Safe sex has a wide scope.

As one of the members said, it could just be gazing at the moon and thinking of the beloved. Or it can be as raunchy as torrid kissing, heavy petting, mutual masturbation. You may read your own stuff, read another's or heckle other poets whose idea this is.

Please text or email Babeth Lolarga if you'll be in the shortlist of 10 readers. Her number is 0916-242-1637.

The sponsors are Rumours, Philippine NGO Council on Health, Population and Welfare and DKT Philippines.

* * *

Start:	Nov 23, '07 1:30p
End:	Nov 24, '07 5:00p
Location:	Episcopal Church in the Philippines Mission Center's conference hall -- 356 Magsaysay Ave., Baguio City

THE famous Baguio Writers Group will conduct a creative journal writing workshop Nov. 23-24 at the Episcopal Church in the Philippines Mission Center's conference hall on 356 Magsaysay Ave., Baguio City.

Yes, this is for those who spent a long time at the cemetery thinking, "What if everybody remembers me only for my name, dates of birth and death and "In Loving Memory." I need to be” immortal!"

The workshop -- which starts Nov. 23 at 1:30 p.m. and resumes on the 24th at 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. -- is open to college students and adults who would like to learn the discipline of keeping a journal and drawing writing and other artistic ideas from it.

Facilitators are the dynamic duo of Prof. Grace Subido, who teaches literature and writing courses at the University of the Philippines Baguio, and Merci Javier Dulawan, a teacher-writer enrolled in advanced studies to enable her to teach the Ira Progoff method of journal writing.

Twenty slots are open for participants. Workshop fee of P1,200 covers handouts, snacks, lunch and certificates.

To reserve call or text Babeth Lolarga at 0916-242-1637.