My Fair Maladies

My Fair Maladies: Funny Essays and Poems on Various Ailments and Afflictions

Edited by Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo

Description: Almost everyone has suffered, at one time or the other, from some ailment, real or imagined. In true Pinoy fashion, we all cope by laughing about it, proving that laughter, indeed, is the best medicine. The 64 funny essays and poems in this book are all about the maladies that have afflicted some of the best writers in the country today—from a wandering eye to the big C, from an irrational fear of insects to a full-blown nervous breakdown. They are interspersed with nuggets of information on the illnesses.


Note: I have a poem in this anthology dedicated to Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Virginia Woolf and Maningning Miclat, you get the drift? Hehehe!

The Milflores Guide to Philippine Shopping Malls

The Milflores Guide to Philippine Shopping Malls

Edited by Antonio A. Hidalgo


This extraordinary guide book to Philippine shopping malls has informative and entertaining essays by 27 of the best writers in the country on 35 malls nationwide. It is must reading for all:


Wise shoppers desiring the best bargains in town;

New mallers venturing forth into the world of malling;

Mallers curious about other malls;

Mallers wanting to see the larger picture of malling;

Local travelers going to out-of-town malls;

Tourists wishing to experience Philippine shopping malls; and

Lovers of good writing



Note: I have two essays included in this book.

An Anthology of New Voices in Philippine Poetry

Crowns and Oranges: An Anthology of New Voices in Philippine Poetry

edited by Cirilo F. Bautista and Ken T. Ishikawa

Contributors included in the book:

Anina Abola, Alex Agena, Arnold Aldaba, Mark Angeles, Marthy Angue, Glenn Vincent Atanacio, Imelda Morales Aznar, Michael Balili, Javier Bengzon, Anna Bernaldo-Romulo, Marie Bismonte, Raymond Calbay, Catherine Candano, Karen Ann Capco, Jennifer Cariño, Mark Cayanan, Jose Jason Chancoco, Mikael de Lara Co, Michelle Camille Correa, Keith Cortez, Vincent Coscolluela, Jonathan Davila, Raymond John A. de Borja, Anjeline de Dios, Rodrigo V. Dela Peña, Ruel De Vera, Frederic Dimzon, Mervin Joseph Espina, Ralph Semino Galan, EJ Galang, Liwanag Jethro Jose Gallaga, Frances Maureen Giron, Ramil Digal Gulle, Mark Frederik Gumban, Carljoe Javier, Ana Maria Katigbak, Arkaye Kierful, Marie La Viña, Gabriela Lee, Carlos Luz, Paolo Manalo, Mayo Uno Martin, Samantha Martiñez, Melvin Medes, Alessandra Rose Miguel, Raul Moldez, JR Moll, Michael Morco, Ana Escalante Neri, Victor Dennis T. Nierva, Rodellen Paccial, Clarisse Fuschia Paderna, Haidee Palapar, Bj A. Patiño, Ned Parfan, Allan Pastrana, Noelle Pico, J. Lorenz Poquiz, Gerald Feljandro Ramos, José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes, Jun de la Rosa, Romel Samson, Raphael Doval-Santos, Michellan Sarile, Joseph Saguid, Angelo Suarez, Andrea Teran, Joel Toledo, Marvi Torres, Czeriza Shennille S. Valencia, Michelle Varron, Santiago B. Villafania and Lawrence Lacambra Ypil

PEN Philippines 2007 Poetry Anthology

At Home In Unhomeliness: An Anthology of Philippine Postcolonial Poetry in English

Editor: J. Neil Garcia

Featuring 82 poems by 29 of the Philippines’ best young poets in English.
From the Introduction: By subtitling this collection “An Anthology of Philippine Postcolonial Poetry, this is precisely what I wish to editorially endorse, what I wish the prospective reader (local or translocal) to remember, what I intend to announce at the outset: these poems, like the rest of Philippine literature in English, will in fact be largely incomprehensible when decontextualized from the histories that engendered them–particularly the violent histories of colonization that the Philippines, as a geopolitical and indeed national reality, has endured.

Michael Balili
Ronald Baytan
Catherine Candano
Jose Wendell Capili
Jennifer Patricia Carino
Mark Anthony Cayanan
Mikael de Lara Co
Conchitina Cruz
Carlomar Arcangel Daoana
Raymond John de Borja
Cecille La Verne de la Cruz
Lourd Ernest de Veyra
Israfel Fagela
Marc Gaba
Ralph Semino Galan
Ramil Dagal Gulle
Sid Gomez Hildawa
Joy Icayan
Mookie Katigbak
Kris Lacaba
Paolo Manalo
Arvin Abejo Mangohig
Allan Pastrana
Dinah Roma-Sianturi
Rafael San Diego
Michelle Sarile
Angelo V. Suarez
Joel Toledo
Lawrence Lacambra Ypil