INDIA REVIEWS LOVE

"Tabios' concern for our world is global in its reach and this is a book that is very much of our time."-Contemporary Literary Review India

What a lovely surprise in the mail: my first review in India ... of my first French-published book. Contemporary Literary Review India reviews LOVE IN A TIME OF BELLIGERENCE! Hopefully I'll get permission to reprint it online but until then here are images (reflecting how the review focused on my series, "The Ashbery Riff-Offs") ...

(click on images to enlarge)

Thanks to reviewer Neal Leadbeater and CLRI Editor-in-Chief Khursid Alam.

MANIFESTING ...

I was asked to provide a Manifesto, so I wrote one as Flash Fiction. Coz that's what a Poet does. The result is

"AUTO (An OBU Manifesto"

Have at it!

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I don't have illustrations for this post. So how about some of my kittens Tarzan and Addie?

NEXT READING, SAN FRANCISCO!

PAWA PRESENTS FILIPINX POETS

Eileen Tabios, Chris Santiago, Jason Magabo Perez and Barbara Jane Reyes

sponsored by Philippine American Writers & Artists (PAWA)

6-8:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco

447 Sutter Street, 6th Floor

San Francisco, CA 94108

The event is free, open to the public, and include refreshments.

About Chris Santiago: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/poetry/tula-chris-santiago

About Barbara Jane Reyes: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04zrykq

About Jason Magabo Perez: http://www.jasonmagaboperez.com

About Me: I'll be at the event's hors d'oeuvres table. Yes, there'll be refreshments -- join Moi!

(RSVP optional but it'd be great if you do so the food planners can, um, plan.  Which means the more who say Yes, the more I can eat :)  RSVP through Facebook.)

MY POEMS TRAVEL MORE THAN I DO!

I'm grateful my French publisher took LOVE IN A TIME OF BELLIGERENCE to an international book fair in Braine-l'Alleud (Belgium). I love that my poems go farther than I do...

MURDER ... RECOMMENDED!

Quite a (post) headline, eh? But thanks to Small Press Distribution for putting MURDER DEATH RESURRECTION on its latest SPD Recommends List!

A POET READS POEMS-FEBRUARY

As of Jan. 1, I began tracking the following stats on a daily basis:

--how many poems I wrote and/or edited

--how many poems I read

--how many poetry chapbooks and/or books I read

--other media that relates to poetry, e.g. audios and videos

On Facebook, where I post my daily list, my favorite comment was from witty Melinda de Jesus who said, “They’re like a FitBit for poetry…” My daily posts can look like this entry:

1/7/18: Today

I wrote zero poems.

I read 6 poems and 1 poetry book

That’s it. No names, which is why I’m posting below the names of poets whose works I read. I name them, whether I read a single poem or an entire book by them. January's reading is HERE. These poets make up February's reading:

Carolyn Gutierrez-Abanggan

Jonel Abellanosa

Jasmin Ado

shaina evero isles fedelin agbayani

Jim Pascual Agustin

Raad Ahmad

Dilruba Ahmed

Anna Akhmatova

Yosano Akiko

Austin Alexis

Francisco X. Alarcon

Kazim Ali

William Allegrezza

Billy Antonio

Cesar Ruiz Aquino

Sacha Archer

Mesbah Alam Arghya

Ivan Arguelles

Tim Atkins

W.H. Auden

Gracia G. Balangue

Desiree L. Balota

Subkhro Bandopadhyay

Santanu Bandyopadhyay

Sheila Bare

Guy R. Beining

John M. Bennett

Brian Bilston

S.H. Bjerg

John Bloomberg-Rissman

Viktor Bokov

Eavan Boland

Lolo Bomboy

Rose Booker

Kristy Bowen

Jessica Bozek

Julian Talamantez Brolaski

Brandon Brown

Laynie Browne

Andrew Alan Buhman

Reed Bye

billy cancel

Kai Carlson-Wee

Rosy Carrick

Hayden Carruth

Wayne Benitze Castillo

Albert B. Casuga

Joe Ceravolo

Dara Cerv

Leila Chatti

Ching-In Chen

David Chirot

Shaku Choku

Margaret Chula

John Clare

Lucille Clifton

Billy Collins

Shanna Compton

William Corbett

Robin Coste-Lewis

Ray Craig

Robert Creeley

Nick Cruz

Michael Daley

Will Y. Darling

Amilyn Villador David

Tyree Day

Augusto De Campos

Melinda Luisa de Jesus

Mirtha Dermisache

Ricardo de Ungria

John DeWitt

Umit Singh Dhuga

Denise Duhamel

Aja Couchois Duncan

Jim Dunn

Jessica Pujol Duran

Sophie Anne Edwards

Larry Eigner

Carl F Emerich

S.O. Fasrus

Maconn Feliciano

Deb Y Felio

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Norman Finkelstein

Kathy Fish

Felix Fojas

Sarah Fox

Saito Fumi

Asha Futterman

Cori Gabbard

Ralph Semino Galan

Danny Gallardo

pe garcia

Drew Gardner

Danny Gallardo

Geoffrey Gatza

Sukanta Ghosh

Louis Ginsberg

Jesse Glass

Ed Go

melissa christine goodrum

Anne Gorrick

Erica Goss

Vince Gotera

Michael Graves

Michelle Greenblatt

Adrienne Gruber

Mike Guffan

Mike Gullickson

Daniel Y. Harris

Curtis Hayes

Dah Helmer

Robert Herrick

Robert Hershon

Crag Hill

Eric Hoffman

Anselm Hollo

Bob Holman

Langston Hughes

Victor Hugo

Emily Hunt

Geof Huth

Luisa Igloria

Brenda Iijima

Margarita Ilieva

Daniel Ionita

Robinson Jeffers

Antony John

Leroi Jones

Pierre Joris

Malu M. Juego

Kitahara Kakusha

Okamoto Kanoko

Marie Luise Kaschnitz

Brigit Pegeen Keely

Miyazawa Kenji

Diane Keys

Robert Kiely

Kevin Kilroy

Amy King

Bill Knott

Irene Koronas

Anna Kreienberg

Natalie Pardo Labang

Philip Lamantia

Gerrit Lansing

Neil Leadbeater

Jim Leftwich

Joseph Legaspi

Rebeka Lembo

Julia Rose Lewis

Abigail Licad

Michelle Lin

Richard Livermore

Kimberly Lyons

Travis Macdonald

Joey Madia

Ligaw Makata

Ligaw Malaya

Alyssa Manansala

Monica Manolachi

Peter Manson

Sean Manzano

Colin Lee Marshall

Lauren McBride

Jim McCrary

Martha McCollough

Miriam Midley

Rachel Mindell

Saito Mokichi

Fred Moten

Aryanil Mukherjee

Madua Mukherjee

Michelle Murphy

Robert Murphy

Gina Myers

Blanca Elorde Nagac

Cory Nakasue

Maribelle Adelfa A. Navarro-Laude

Michael Thomas Nelmida

Stephen Nelson

Friedrich Nietszke

Elly Nobbs

Okuma Nobuyuki

Linda Norton

Mori Ogai

Mary Oliver

George Oppen

Jenny Ortuoste

Amy Pabalan

Jose Padua

Danielle Pafunda

lars palm

Tamara L. Panici

Astra Papachristodoulou

R.T.A. Parker

Marianne Paul

Craig Santos Perez

Joseph Persad

Fernando Pessoa

Sasha Pimentel

Aloysiusi Lionel Salome Polintan

Erwin Ponce

Ethel Rackin

Tom Rapp

Alexandra Lytton Regalado

Maria Crozalle Reyes Raymndo aka Weeween

Jose Rizal M. Reyes

Lizae Cervantes Reyes

Tony Robles

Stan Rogal

Muriel Rukeyser

Rumi

Jesrael Rivera aka Siangmakata

Maekawa Samio

Sabyasachi Sanyal

Barry Schwabsky

Herb Scott

Nancy Bell Scott

Margarita Seeafimova

Heidi Seaborn

Nicole Sealey

Bilshan F. Servanez

Zvi A. Sesling

Ndaba Sibanda

Stewart Shaw

Masaoka Shiki

Miya Shuji

Randee Silv

Denis Smith

Layli Long Soldier

Lina Stern

Iris Stoler

Matthew Stolte

Leny Strobel

Celina Su

Hiromi Suzuki

Eileen Tabios

Debra Tachibana

Ishikawa Takuboku

Hiroshi Taniuchi

Alice Tarbuck

Yosano Tekkan

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Orchid Tierney

Robin Tomens

Tony Torn

Wendy Trevino

Richard Tuttle

Randy Salvador N. Ugay

Florence Uniacke

Upanishads

Eliana Vanessa

Nico Vassilakis

Jean Vengua

Noel Vera

Santiago Villafania

Rosario Villaluz

Lina Ramona Vitkauskas

Linda Jeannette Ward

Cathy Weedon

Jameka Williams

William Carlos Williams

Eryk Wenziak

Kath Abela Wilson

Daniel Wuenschel

Mark Young

Toki Zenmaro

Eleni Zisimatos

Jim Zola

POEM AFTER MERLE ROSEN'S ART

In February, "POSSIBILITY," a poem inspired by one of Merle Rosen's artworks was read during a reading celebrating the artist. Having received the Rosen Family's and Caza Sikes Gallery's permissions to post the inspiring artwork, I'm pleased to share the art and the poem it inspired. My thanks to Dos Madres Press and Grace Curtis for asking me to participate.

POSSIBILITY

Yes

I am

possibility. I am

here with arms

stretched wide 

open

to-

wards what

I know not

but anticipate with

sun warm

upon

my 

heart and

yours. Together we

will

share light.

Look at me

as

I begin

to open eyes.

Oh!

Such colors

on the blanket

you laid out

for me.

You

affirm

my hope

to mature into

color.

I am

mostly blank canvas

now. But we

know I

will

burgundy,

will turquoise,

will glow gold

after

opening eyes

towards a universe

seeing,

acknowledging, welcoming

little ol’ me.

How lovely the

ocean becoming

my

eyes

because I

see water. We

all

want to

be seen, thus

become.

Welcome my

possibility, and I

will

grow into

your cherished rainbow.

Already I’ve begun

with blue,

yellow …

(A Note on Form: This is a poem written in the form of a “Flip-Flop” hay(na)ku after this variation was first named by Vince Gotera. The "Flip-Flop" alternates the 1-, 2-, 3-word count with 3-, 2-, 1-word count of the hay(na)ku tercet.)