It’s 10:30 in the evening, and the night is still young and yearning. It’s spoken poetry night at Le Café Curieux in Makati. The bar is packed, and people keep on coming and going. Amid the crowd, an ...

It takes a writer as big as Lang Leav to get mainstream media interested in authorial catfights, or to delve into the meaning and purpose of poetry. This happened last week, when Lang Leav came to the ...

Poetry has a way of bringing out one’s best and worst feelings. When spoken word poets Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye performed early this week for the first time in Manila, their pieces resonated with ...