“Barako Cafe”
Author/Editor: Issy Reyes
Category: Poetry
About “Barako Cafe”
Profession: Academic
location: Philippines
I teach poetry and creative non-fiction at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. I started blogging around 2004 because I noticed that a lot of Filipino university students were blogging and having online conversations about literature. I was interested in what they had to say and wanted to be part of the conversation. Later on, I started using my blog to "record" links to articles on poetry that I thought were useful and provocative.
Favorite Authors
George Oppen, Forrest Gander, John Ashbery, Paul Celan, Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, William Blake, John Donne, Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortazar, Jorge Luis Borges, Jose Rizal, Virginia Woolf, Albert Camus, J.R.R. Tolkien, Milan Kundera, A.S. Byatt, Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes
Favorite Topics
Poetry, debates on poetic form, the spiritual in poetry
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