Manananggal Terrorizes Manila and Other Stories by Jessica Zafra (Book)

Manananggal Terrorizes Manila and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Filipino author Jessica Zafra. It was first published by Anvil Publishing in 1992. The collection contains 15 stories including Portents, the story that won first place in the 1991 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature in the short story category.

The stories featured in the collection are:

1. The Word-Eaters
2. Portents
3. Manananggal Terrorizes Manila
4. Face in the Crowd
5. What's In Your Glass
6. Scylla and Charybdis
7. Romeo, et. al.
8. "_____ Was Here"
9. Ten Thousand Easters at the Vatican
10. Doppelganger
11. The Ouija Board of Thomas Edison
12. The Wide Open Eyes of Madness
13. Kind of Brown
14. My Dog Is Dead
15. Through a Time Warp, With a Paddle

The blurb at the back of the book:

Jessica Zafra writes a column, "Womenagerie" in Woman Today and her articles have appeared in Metro. Her story, "Portents" won first place in the 1991 Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards fpr Literature. She was a UP Summer Writers' Workshop Fellow in 1985.

Jessica was a scholar at the Philippine High School and moved on to the University of the Philippines to major in Comparative Literature.

Manananggal Terrorizes Manila and Other Stories by Jessica Zafra

Other books by Jessica Zafra:

1. The Age of Umbrage

Four Poems by Luisa Igloria That Appeared in The Missouri Review

These four poems by Luisa Igloria appeared in The Missouri Review: Editors' Prize Issue (Volume XXVII, Number 1, 2004). The Missouri Review is a literary journal published by the College of Arts & Science of the University of Missouri-Columbia.

The short bio of Igloria that accompanied her published poems in the journal: "Luisa Igloria is a poet, fiction writer and essayist who has published five books under the name Maria Luisa Aguilar Carino. She is the editor of the new anthology Not Home, but Here: Writing from the Filipino Diaspora (Anvil, 2003). Luisa's work has appeared in numerous national and international journals."

The poems:
1. Field Planted to Winter Grass
2. The Return
3. Trill and Mordent
4. Mandorla

Cyan Abad-Jugo Biography

Cyan Abad-Jugo is a Filipino writer, novelist, and teacher. She is the daughter of Gemino Abad (Fugitive Emphasis, In Another Light, The Space Between). She teaches Literature and Creative Writing at the Ateneo de Manila University.

Abad-Jugo graduated from Ateneo de Manila University when she was merely 19. She majored in English Literature. She has studied under Dr. Edna Manlapaz and Fr. Joseph Galdon for her writing classes. Her stay in Ateneo further developed her passion for writing and literature. During her stay in Ateneo, she was anactive member of Heights, the school's preeminent literary organization.

For her graduate studies, Abad-Jugo attended Simmons College in Boston in the United States. It's here that she earned her master’s in Children’s Literature. Her thesis adviser at Simmons College was Lois Lowry, famous American author of The Giver Quartet (The Giver, Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son). She took her PhD in English Studies: Creative Writing and Anglo-American Literature at UP Diliman.

Abad-Jugo also took up writing classes taught by N.V.M. Gonzales (Bread of Salt, The Happiest Boy in the World, The Bamboo Dancers, The Winds of April). Other writers who have had an influence on her writing include Luis Katigbak (Happy Endings, The King of Nothing to Do, Dear Distance), Dean Alfar (Salamanca, A Field Guide to the Roads of Manila, How to Traverse Terra Incognita), and Nikki Alfar (WonderLust, The Mechanism of Moving Forward).

In 1996, Cyan and her father released a book they co-authored. They titled it Father and Daughter: The Figures of Our Speech. Published by Anvil, the book is a collection of stories, poems, and essays by the two Abads.

"My professors were so enthusiastic about the things that we had to read for class, that I couldn’t help but have their enthusiasm rub off on me.” - Abad-Jugo

Books by Cyan Abad-Jugo:

- Father and Daughter: The Figures of Our Speech
- Leaf and Shadow: Stories About Some Friendly Creatures
-Salingkit: A 1986 Diary
- Sweet Summer and Other Stories
- Motherhood Statements. Eds Rica Bolipata-Santos and Cyan Abad-Jugo
- Letters From Crispin
- The Earth-Healers
- The Looking-Glass Tree
- Yaya Maya and The White King
- Friend Zones: an anthology of short stories for young adults

Was Nick Joaquin Known as Doveglion?

The short answer is no. Nick Joaquin did not use Doveglion as a pen name. Doveglion is the pen name of another well-known and influential Filipino writer and poet. That would be Jose Garcia Villa. Villa used Doveglion as a pen name and explained that it was a combination of the three words dove, eagle, and lion. According to Villa, these three animals/creatures (which has appeared in some of his works) represent his personality. Even the great American poet e.e. cummings has written and dedicated a poem to Villa using the pen name. What was the poem called? The poem was called "Doveglion, Adventures in Value."

In 2008, Penguin published a selected collection of Jose Garcia Villa's most famous and influential poems. The book was titled Doveglion: Collected Poems. The book was referred to as a centennial edition because it was published on Villa's centennial year. The collection contained an introduction by Luis H. Francia and it was edited by John Edwin Cowen.

Nick Joaquin has also used a pen name in some of his works. He used the pen name Quijano de Manila. This pen name was supposed to be an anagram of Nick Joaquin's family name. He mostly used this pen name in his essays and columns for various publications. He used to write weekly for the Philippines Free Press. 

Stories by Nick Joaquin that you should read include Candido's Apocalypse, The Order of Melkizedek, Dona Jeronima, Guardia de Honor, The Woman Who Had Two Navels, May Day Eve, The Summer Solstice, The Mass of St. Sylvestre, The Legend of the Dying Wanton, and Three Generations.

Carlos A. Angeles Biography and Literary Works (Poems)

- Carlos A. Angeles was a Filipino poet. He was born on May 25, 1921 in Tacloban City in the province of Leyte. He attained secondary education at Rizal High and graduated in 1938. He attended several universities - Ateneo de Manila, University of the Philippines, and Central Luzon Colleges. When he was studying in UP, he became an active member of the UP Writer's Club. His award-winning poetry collection, A Stun of Jewels, was published to great acclaim in 1963. Another collection, A Bruise of Ahses, was published by the Ateneo University Press in 1993.

- Angeles worked at the Philippine Bureau of International News Service from 1950 to 1958.

- Angeles was a recipient of the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature in the Poetry category in 1964. This was the year that poetry was added to the list of categories. Angeles won the award for A Stun of Jewels, a collection of 47 poems. These were poems he wrote and dedicated to his wife Concepcion Reynoso. The collection also won the Republic Cultural Heritage Award for Literature.

Poems:
1. Gabu
2. Dusk
3. Landscape II
4. Badoc
5. Family Reunion
6. The Wonderful Machine
7. From the Rooftop

A Bruise of Ashes: Collected Poems by Carlos A. Angeles.

Luisa A. Igloria Biography and Literary Works (Poems)

Luisa A. Igloria is a Filipino-American poet. She authored 14 books of poetry and 4 chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in national and international anthologies, and print and online literary journals including Orion, Shenandoah, Indiana Review, Crab Orchard Review, Diode, Missouri Review, Rattle, Poetry East, Your Impossible Voice, Poetry, Shanghai Literary Review, Cha, Hotel Amerika, Spoon River Poetry Review, and others. She was director of the MFA Creative Writing Program at the Old Dominion University from 2009 to 2015.

Education:
1. B.A. Humanities - Cum Laude - major in Comparative Literature, minor in English, cognate in Philosophy), 1980 University of the Philippines Baguio
2. M.A. in Literature at Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines, 1988 [Robert Southwell Fellow]
3. Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing, University of Illinois at Chicago, July 1995 as Fulbright Fellow.

Awards and Recognitions:
1. Co-winner of the Crab Orchard Poetry Open competition. (2019)
2. Appointed as the 20th Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia (2020-2022)
3. Inaugural winner of the Resurgence Prize (UK). (2015)
4. Recipient of the Center for the Book Arts Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Prize. (2018)
5. May Swenson Prize, Utah State University Press (2014)
6. She was the inaugural Glasgow Visiting Writer in Residence at Washington and Lee University. (2018)
7. Second Prize at the Bridport Poetry Prize/UK. (2018)
8. Ernest Sandeen Poetry Prize (2009)
9. 49th Parallel Poetry Prize (2007)
10. James Hearst Poetry Prize (2007)
11. Honorable Mention in the Potomac Review Poetry Contest (2010)
12. Finalist in the first Narrative Poetry Contest (2009)

Poetry Collections:
1. Maps for Migrants and Ghosts
2. What Is Left of Wings, I Ask
3. The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis
4. Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser
5. Juan Luna's Revolver

Trivia:
1. Since November of 2010, Igloria has been writing at least one poem a day.
2. She has a website at http://www.luisaigloria.com/.

Poems:

1. Mandorla

2. Trill and Mordent

3. The Return

4. Field Planted to Winter Grass

Edith L. Tiempo Biography and Literary of Works (Poems, Novels, Short Stories)

Edith Lopez Tiempo was a Filipino poet, short story writer, literary critic, novelist, and teacher. She was born on April 22, 1919 in San Nicholas, Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya. Her parents were Salvador T. Lopez, an auditor for the government and Teresa Cutaran. She studied and earned a degree from Silliman University. She took the course Bachelor of Science in Education. She majored in English. She graduated magna cum laude in 1947. 

Tiempo took her Masters Degree at the University of Iowa. At the university, she was the recipient of an international fellowship that lasted from 1947 to 1950. In 1958, Tiempo received a scholarship grant from the United Board of Christian Higher Education in Asia and she used it to get a doctorate degree in the English language at the University of Denver in Colorado.

She was conferred a National Artist for Literature in 1999. In 1962, along with her husband Dr. Edilberto K. Tiempo, they founded the Silliman National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete City. Tiempo received her M.A. in Creative Writing from the State University of Iowa in the United States. She also held a Ph. D. from the University of Denver.

In 1979, Tiempo's novel His Native Coast won first prize at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Award for the Novel. In 1988, she and her husband received the Gawad Pambansang Alagad ni Balagtas (UMPIL Award/Balagtas Bicentennial National Achievement Literary Award). Tiempo has also won the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Poetry and the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Short Story. He won multiple times (1951, 1955, 1967, and 1969). In 1955 and 1959, Tiempo won the Philippines Free Press Short Story Contest.

In 2002, the Ateneo de Manila University honored Tiempo with its Tanglaw ng Lahi Award. The university gave her the award "for a vision that has supported the institutional practice of creative writing in the Philippines". 

In 2019, in celebration of the centenary of Tiempo's birth, the Philippine Postal Corporation printed and released 25,000 commemorative postage stamps bearing the image of Tiempo.

In August, 2020, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the University of Santo Tomas Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies organized a special webinar called Manila Reads Edith Tiempo. As part of the event, Dr. Cristina Pantoja Hidalgo delivered a lecture titled Women and Power in Edith Tiempo's Fiction. 

She is acknowledged by some as the Mother of Philippine Literature. Tiempo died on August 21, 2011. Cause of death was myocardial infarction.

Poetry Collections:
1. The Tracks of Babylon and Other Poems (1966)
2. Beyond, Extensions (1993)
3. The Charmer's Box and Other Poems (1993)
4. Marginal Annotations and Other Poems (2010)

5. Commend Contend/Beyond Extensions (2010)

Writing Guides:

1. Six Uses of Fictional Symbols (2004)

2. Six Poetry Formats and the Transforming Image (2008)

Novels:
1. A Blade of Fern (1978)
2. His Native Coast (1979)
3. Alien Corn (1992)
4. One, Tilting Leaves (1995)
5. The Builder (2004)
6. The Jumong (2006)

Short Story Collections:
1. Abide, Joshua, and Other Stories (1964)

Poems:

1. Lament for the Littlest Fellow

2. Bonsai

Short Stories:

1. The Corral

2. The Black Monkey

Fernando M. Maramag: Biography and Poems

Fernando Mamuri Maramag was a Filipino poet, journalist, editor, essayist, and teacher. He was born on January 21, 1893 in Ilagan, Isabela. His father was Rafael Maramag and his mother was Victoria Mamuri, a Spanish mestiza. At the age of 15, Maramag went to study at the Philippine Normal School (now Philippine Normal University). He later transferred to the University of the Philippines where he graduated. In UP, Maramag wrote for the school paper and soon became the editor-in-chief. 

During his stay in UP, he became classmates with Jose Hilario and Pilar Hidalgo Lim. When he was 21, Maramag became the principal at the prestigious Instituto de Manila. He also taught as an English professor at UP and at San Juan de Letran. 

Maramag married Constancia Ablaza. They had six children.

Maramag worked as an editor for various publications including The Manila Tribune, Rising Philippines, The Philippines Herald, and the National Weekly. Maramag also worked for the Philippine government as the chief of the publications division of the Department of Justice. He later served as the technical assistant to Manuel L. Quezon, then President of the Philippine Senate. 

Maramag died on October 23, 1936. On January 21, 1983, a commemorative marker was installed in his hometown in Isabela to honor his contributions to Philippine literature. 

Poems:

• The Rural Maid
• To a Youth
• Moonlight on Manila Bay
• My Queen Tagala
• The Atheist
• A Christ Without a Cross
• Jose Rizal
• The Presentation

Moonlight on Manila bay

A light serene, ethereal glory, rests

Its beams on each cresting wave;

The silver touches of the moonlight lave

The deep's bare bosom that the breeze molests;  

While lingering whispers deepen as the wavy crests

Roll with weird rhythm, now gay, now gently grave;

And floods of lambent light appear the sea to pave - 

All cast as spell that heeds not time's behests.

Not always such the scene: the din of fight

Has swelled the murmur of the peaceful air;

Here East and West have oft displayed their might;

Dark battle clouds have dimmed this scene so fair;

Here bold Olympia, one historical night,

Presaging freedom, claimed a people's care.

"Fernando M. Maramag was born in Iligan, isabela in 1893. He is considered the country's first important poet in English. Records show that his works dominated The College Folio from December 1910 to November 1912, and R. Dato's Filipino Poetry (1924). A poer and essayist, Maramag's translated Ibanag folk songs into English, such as the "Cagayanon labor Song", "A Translation of an Orphan's Song", and "Cagayano Peasant Song". His poems include "To a Youth", "The Aetheist", and "Moonlight on Manila Bay". His essays were anthologized in Leopoldo Yabes's Filipino Essays in English 1910-1954 (1954). He passed away on October 23, 1936." [Source: Philippine Literature: An Introduction to Poetry, Fiction and Drama by Baritugo, Caranguian, Punsalan, Solmerano]

Ma. Romina M. Gonzales Biography

Ma. Romina M. Gonzales is a Filipino writer and journalist. She is most well-known in the Philippine literary scene as a writer of short stories. Welostit, a short story of hers won 3rd prize at the 1997 Palanca Literary Awards. Her short story Flood won 2nd prize at the 1999 Palanca Awards. Her first collection of stories titled Welostit and Other Stories was published by the University of the Philippines Press in 2003.

From the "The Author" page of Welostit and Other Stories:

Ma. Romina M. Gonzales has a degree in Communication Arts, cum laude, from Assumption College, and a master's degree in Creative Writing from the University of the Philippines in Diliman. She worked as an associate editor of the Philippine Human Rights Monitor and as a shipping and travel correspondent of the defunct Manila Chronicle before moving to TODAY, where she is a senior reporter covering the Malacanang beat.

She was a fellow at the UP and Silliman national workshops, at the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers in Scotland, and at the Women in Journalism International Programme of the Institute for the Further Education of Journalists in Sweden. Some of her stories - hatched between consciousness and sleep, mostly written between deadlines - have won Carlos Palanca Awards. She is working on her first novel.

She lives with her family in a 133-year-old house in Malabon.