Basabalak Kanunay

Every episode, there will be a theme that will navigate within the poem of the day. For this episode, we have Delora Sales-Simbajon's "Mga Balod & "Ang Dalan sa Pagkalimot nimo Sayon ug Daghan."

Delora Sales-Simbajon' s English and Cebuano poems have been published in anthologies and international online/electronic magazines and journals. Her two poems featured here first appeared in KABISDAK. She is a Home Life Magazine poetry awardee (1998) for one of her English poems. Although a Boholana by birth and based in Cebu and Bangkok for years, Delora currently resides in Mindanao, Philippines with husband Daryl.

I hope you will like these poems. Amping kanunay ug padayon ta mga Bisaya!

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All the poems, music, and graphics used in the podcast belong to their respective owners.  This channel does not claim any right over them.

Every episode, there will be a theme that will navigate within the poem of the day. For this episode, we have Carmie Ortego's "Pagbalay, Paglimot, Pagpabilin."

Carmie Ortego is a native of Talalora, Samar. She graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Elementary Education-Bachelor of Secondary Education at Leyte Normal University in 2013. She is teaching in the senior high school of National University-MOA in Pasay City and is taking her Master’s degree at De La Salle University. She is now more than 500 miles away from home. She intends to go back to writing so she went away; she writes so she can find home.

I hope you will like this poem. Amping kanunay ug padayon ta mga Bisaya!

COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER:

All the poems, music, and graphics used in the podcast belong to their respective owners.  This channel does not claim any right over them.

Every episode, there will be a theme that will navigate within the poem of the day. For this episode, we have Manu Avenido's "Unsaon Pagtimplag Bagyo."

Manu Avenido wrote English poems first that were odes to his native Bohol but later found his footing in writing Cebuano poetry and fiction, the themes of which mostly depicted his struggles living in Cebu City. He was a fellow to regional and national writers' workshops, which were formative to his early years as a budding writer. His short stories, including those that won the Palanca, appeared in Bisaya Magazine. As an aspiring writer in diaspora based in Japan now, he is in constant search for a new Cebuano writing style - one that will allow his work to transcend linguistic landscape and sociocultural reality.

I hope you will like this poem. Amping kanunay ug padayon ta mga Bisaya!

COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER:

All the poems, music, and graphics used in the podcast belong to their respective owners.  This channel does not claim any right over them.

Every episode, there will be a theme that will navigate within the poem of the day. For this episode, we have Jefferson Del Rosario's "Kudkoran."

Jefferson Del Rosario finished his Bachelor of Arts in English-Literature in 2012 at Cebu Normal University. He also finished his Master of Arts in Literature at the same school and now teaching in one of the public schools in Danao City, Cebu, Philippines.

Del Rosario was a fellow to various writing workshops such as Bathalad, Cornelio Faigao, Iyas, Iligan, and Silliman National Writers Workshop. He was also a contributor in Bisaya Magazine and a member of the Young Blood Writers and Bathalad. He was awarded as the 2018 Most Promising Young Writer in Bisaya and won the 1st Prize in Bathalad-Mindanao Tigi Sinulatay under Mubong Sugilanon Category.

I hope you will like this poem. Amping kanunay ug padayon ta mga Bisaya!

COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER:

All the poems, music, and graphics used in the podcast belong to their respective owners.  This channel does not claim any right over them.

Every episode, there will be a theme that will navigate within the poem of the day. For this episode, we have Desiree Balota's "Tanos."

Desiree Balota obtained her bachelor's degree in education and a master's degree in literature from Saint Theresa’s College of Cebu and Cebu Normal University, respectively.  She has won prizes for her poetry in Bathalad Sugbo's and Bathalad Mindanao's Tigi sa Sinulatay.  Several of her poems have been published in literary anthologies and in local and national newspapers and magazines.  She maintains a blog of verses. She finds smiles in taking pictures of leaves and flowers. And she feeds and plays with cats.

I hope you will like this poem. Amping kanunay ug padayon ta mga Bisaya!

COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER:

All the poems, music, and graphics used in the podcast belong to their respective owners.  This channel does not claim any right over them.

Every episode, there will be a theme that will navigate within the poem of the day. For this episode, we have Ton Daposala's "Pagpauli."

Ton Daposala was a fellow of the 57th UP National Writers Workshop. His works appeared in Mindanao Harvest 4, Bisaya Magasin, Kabisdak, Brown Child: The Best of Faigao Poetry & Fiction 1984-2012, The Best of Dagmay 2, and Kinaadman Journal. Ton has also published his poetry collection Basâ-basa in 2018. He has completed his MA in Literature at Xavier University and works as a faculty of the CAS-Language, Humanities, and Philosophy Department of Capitol University.

I hope you will like this poem. Amping kanunay ug padayon ta mga Bisaya!

COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER:

All the poems, music, and graphics used in the podcast belong to their respective owners.  This channel does not claim any right over them.

For this special episode, we have Jona Branzuela Bering. 

Jona Branzuela Bering is at peace with her state of lostlessness. She authors Alang sa Nasaag (For the Lost), a poetry collection that swings between domesticity and wanderlust. She calls Hanoi, Vietnam her Point A. She is from Cebu, Philippines. She won the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for her fiction.

I hope you will like this episode. Amping kanunay ug padayon ta mga Bisaya!

COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER:

All the poems, music, and graphics used in the podcast belong to their respective owners.  This channel does not claim any right over them.

Every episode, there will be a theme that will navigate within the poem of the day. For this episode, we have Jojie Oga-ob's "Ang Gugma Usa ka Seesaw."

Jojie E. Oga-ob is a student currently taking up Bachelor of Arts in Literature at Cebu Normal University. He has attended the 15th Mugna Creative Writing Workshop, 1st Cebu Writer's Workshop, and 4th Bathalad-Sugbo Creative Writing Workshop. A few of his works have appeared in Bisaya Magazine, Kabisdak, and Super Balita. He is also a member of Bathalad-Sugbo.

I hope you will like this poem. Amping kanunay ug padayon ta mga Bisaya!

COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER:

All the poems, music, and graphics used in the podcast belong to their respective owners.  This channel does not claim any right over them.

Every episode, there will be a theme that will navigate within the poem of the day. For this episode, we have "Awit Dihang Wa’y Timik Ang Mga Gangis" by Gina Mantua-Panes.

Gina Mantua-Panes is an AB English graduate. She taught speech and literature courses at Cebu Normal University in 1998-2008 while pursuing M.A. in Literature at the University of San Carlos. She is finishing her M.Ed. in ESL  at the University of the Philippines Cebu. She is a Senior High School teacher at Cebu City National Science High School. She dabbles in poetry writing in her spare time.

I hope you will like this poem. Amping kanunay ug padayon ta mga Bisaya!

COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER:

All the poems, music, and graphics used in the podcast belong to their respective owners.  This channel does not claim any right over them.

Every episode, there will be a theme that will navigate within the poem of the day. For this episode, we have "Kuyog si Ma'am Erma" by Maria Lourdes Alorro.

Malou Alorro is a member of Women in Literary Arts-Cebu and Bathalad-Sugbo, a group of Cebuano writers who write mostly in Binisaya. Her writing engagements started when she wrote her diaries at the age of 9. Then, she explored essays in high school and later, with poetry when she reached college. A big influence in some of her writings was the experience under Marcos’ Martial Law dictatorship in the 1980s; gender relations, love relations, motherhood and being a daughter, and friendship, although many of her works have not yet been published. Alorro is a mother to an only daughter, Mutya.  Her first book, entitled: The Winter Lady was published last November 18, 2017, which is what she calls her advocacy birth poems. 

I hope you will like this poem. Amping kanunay ug padayon ta mga Bisaya!

COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER:

All the poems, music, and graphics used in the podcast belong to their respective owners.  This channel does not claim any right over them.