On Philippine Literature, Culture and the Arts

This blog will feature various articles on the arts, popular culture and literature. It will also contain bits of poetry and creative nonfiction.

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Guide Questions for Ballet Philippines Encantada

INSTRUCTIONS: Work in pairs (preferably a boy and girl)so that both sides of the gender divide will be represented. Your reaction must...

Saturday, June 4, 2011

PETA's "Care Divas" Additional Show Dates

PETA's Care Divas 's return engagement for the months of June and July at the PETA Theater Center, Quezon City: June 10, 8pm; June 1...

JEN Archives

The UST Varsitarian - J. Elizalde Navarro National Workshop on Arts Criticism Fellows and Panelists thus far... 2009 Walter Ang, Geronimo Cr...

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

ILIGAN NATIONAL WRITERS' WORKSHOP 2011

The Mindanao Creative Writers Group, Inc., and the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology’s Office of the Vice Chancellor ...

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

UST Holds 3rd National Criticism Workshop

UST Holds 3rd National Criticism Workshop The University of Santo Tomas is now accepting applications to the 2011 UST J. Elizalde Navarro Na...

An Invitation to Literature Teachers and Professors in the Visayas

An Invitation to Literature Teachers and Professors in the Visayas Dear Sir/Madam: Warm greetings from the Philippine PEN Board of Directors...

Saturday, January 29, 2011

To the Pamiyabe Fellows 2011

Hi guys and gals! Here is a funny poem by the American poet laureate Billy Collins. Hope you have a laugh or two, as well as some insights w...

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About Me

Ralph Semino Galan: Teaches literature, humanities and writing subjects at the Faculty of Arts and Letters in UST. Graduated magna cum laude with a Literature degree from MSU-IIT. Fellow to the national writers' workshops (Silliman [1995], U.P.[1996] and Iligan[1997]), and to the 2nd ASEAN Writers' Conference on Poetry. Poems in English and Filipino have won prizes from the Philippine Panorama (1993) and Home Life Magazine (1998). Has an M.A. in Creative Writing from UP-Diliman. Writes book reviews for the Philippine Daily Inquirer. First chapbook "The Southern Cross and Other Poems" was launched December 2005 by the NCCA as part of its UBOD New Authors Series.Juror of the recently established PHILSTAGE Awards for the Performing Arts. Board member of the Council of Department Chairs of English (CDCE)and Philippine Association for Language Teaching (PALT), Inc.; active member of College English Teachers Association (CETA), PEN International Philippine Chapter and Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL). Currently co-adviser (with Nerisa del Carmen Guevara) of Teatro Tomasino.

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