Slip of the Pen

The journey that began half a year ago is ending on a night of metaphors and imagery.

Awww.

To translate the original invitation in Tagalog:

The members and this year’s fellows of the Linangan sa Imahen, Retorika at Anyo (LIRA) invite everyone to the celebration of its 22nd anniversary on December 11, 2007 in Conspiracy Bar, Visayas Avenue, Quezon City. LIRA is an organization of poets fervent in writing in the Filipino language.

The celebration will feature the launch of the SIDHAY literary folio of the LIRA Fellows Batch 2007. This collection includes several of the poems written by each Fellow after the lectures and workshops which started last June 2006. Let yourself be swept away by the verses of: Christa De La Cruz, Guia De Leon, Rogerick Fontanilla Fernandez, Pau Hernando, Kel Juan, Phillip Kimpo Jr., Christine Magpile, Alev Maniago, John Montoya, Por Requinto, and JC Sola.

A preview of the folio:

The inside cover. The true cover has ’semen’ splotched all over it. (You’ve got to see it to believe it, and for you to see it, you’ve got to pay our little artsy night a visit.) “Sidhay” is one of those ‘manufactured’ Filipino words, and it means “Sisidlan ng buhay”. A human cell, in other words. “Hay Hay Buhay” is an inside joke/utterance in the batch.

The table of contents. Table of malcontents. Table of the eleven remaining Fellows (the Workshop started with more than thirty).

Wala e, that’s the most OK pic I can cough up. Christa told me I look like a 20-year old (or something) in this one. Well, two years younger is good enough.

So. December 11, Tuesday. Conspi Bar in Visayas. The avenue. See you.

Lack of time kept me from publishing a slew of photo-essayish blog posts on our LIRA Fellows ‘adventures’, so I’ll be doing just that after Fellows’ Night.

One of the biggest lit events of the year takes place tomorrow — Writer’s Night in UP Diliman. I’ll be there for the re-screening of Cinemalaya winner TRIBU, which will be held to help shoulder the medical expenditures of Tata Raul Funilas, a member of LIRA. My dear friend Pau Hernando also won in the Timpalak DFPP of UP’s College of Arts and Letters, and we’ll be there for her awarding (and the booze that will follow).

I’ve uploaded some vidcaps of my recent TV guesting on Aircraft Models Crux. My ‘toy’ blog is also celebrating my first full year as an airplane model collector.

I began my hobby roughly the same time as my first English poetry publication. In my interview with Nancy C., I mentioned the fact that my first airplane miniature was a self-reward for the publication.

Do the 23 planes in my collection equate to 23 rewards for 23 publications? I wish. Their purpose evolved from reward to mere stress reliever.

And that tells you the magnitude of stress I’ve barrelled through the whole year.

Finally: Phillip.Kimpo.ph. It won’t replace my main site (Corsarius.net), but it does give a better summary of what I’m doing nowadays.