On July 3, at 4PM, poet Luis Francia will read new work and excerpts from his book, Beauty of Ghosts, a theater of poetry in five voices. The works in the book “examine the immigrant’s life as seen through the eyes of various individuals, ranging from a manong to a teenage rapper, from a nurse [...]

Your independent Baguio bookshop is all fired up to host a second poetry slam this Friday, April 15, at 8PM! This time around local poets and lovers of the spoken word will be joined by the fellows and panelists of the 50th U.P. National Writers Workshop. Registration Fee: PHP 100 to compete and get a [...]

We are currently in love with this charming book of poetry by Simeon Dumdum. Each poem is about a Philippine bird and is written in a different form of verse.

At 8 p.m. on February 11, 2011 the hottest poets in the Cloud will be chosen in three elimination rounds of spoken word! A registration fee of P50 gets you in the competition, plus a free Mt Cloud sticker.

On January 29, 2011 at 5PM, listen to Mangyan poetry read and shared in the Cloud. The Ambahan is a traditional verse form that the Hanunoo Mangyan chant and etch on bamboo slats in their ancient script, which is one of the last four pre-Hispanic scripts kept alive in the Philippines.