ARTIST LITERARY WORKS EXCERPTS RELEVANCE

Mark Anthony Cayanan
Mark Anthony Cayanan is
from the Philippines and
works as a professor in the
English department at the
Ateneo de Manila, where he
teaches literature and creative
writing. Both the Kritika
Kultura Anthology of New
Philippine Writing in English
and the literary part of the
academic journal Kritika
Kultura are edited by him. He
earned a Ph.B. from the
University of Adelaide, where
he was awarded the 2021
Doctoral research medal, and
an MFA in creative writing
from the University of
Wisconsin in Madison.
Ode to boy „Your true nature was
something that could‟ve come
later”
The fact that our emotions
will be put to the test at this
time allowed me to relate. I
often make irrational
decisions without giving them
much thought. When we are
irrationally angry or
something, it somehow
exposes our true nature. That
experience taught me to
embrace my flaws as a person
because, at the end of the day,
I‟m still a person who is
capable of experiencing
various emotions.
-Mary Rose Ann Valencia
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Danilo Francisco M. Reyes Telling Time “The cranes Marjorie taught In the poem by D.M Reyes, I
me to fold, gathered in a box; am able to relate it to my life
gold and blue wings rustling in view of the fact that despite
Danilo Francisco M. Reyes in the time of healing.” the difficulties and trials come
also known as D.M Reyes our way that gives us
was born on 11th of May, excruciating pain and wounds,
1968 in Manila and growing there is always a process to
up in Nueva Ecija. He heal just like a paper crane.
enrolled in philosophy on a
scholarship at Ateneo De
Manila University, upon -Shaira Leign Vitacion
discovering the poems of
Gerard Manley Hopkins,
Rainer Maria Rilke, and Edith
L. Tiempo, he decided on a
literary career. He was editor
of Heights; took his AB, 1989
and MA, 1995 both in English
at Ateneo. He was a writing
fellow at the Silliman Writers
Workshop in 1989; that same
year, he began teaching
Filipino language and
literature in Ateneo.