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Tagalog literature

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  1. NYPL releases its best books of 2025 lists

    NYPL releases its best books of 2025 lists

    The New York Public Library reveals its curated Best Books of 2025 lists, highlighting standout titles for adults, teens, and kids across genres.

    6 MIN READ

  2. "BACK THEN, DAY 651" painting.

    'Should Tonight Be My Last Night'

    A poem saying goodbye, reflecting on memory, loss, and the desire to be remembered for how one touches another's life.

    1 MIN READ

  4. "The Sacrificial Lamb," oil on canvas by Josefa de Ayala (Portuguese, ca. 1630 — 1684)

    ‘Testamento’

    Isang koleksyon ng limang tula na tumatalakay sa pananampalataya, kaligtasan, at pagsumpa.

    4 MIN READ

  6. Amelia Clarissa de Luna Monasterial, Summa Cum Laude, DLSU 203rd Commencement Exercises.

    Becoming through each act of creation

    A Lasallian scholar and graduate reflects on how art, connection, and intentional acts transform life, offering meaning, resilience, and a sense of belonging.

    4 MIN READ

  7. "The Anatomy of Melancholy," 2023 self-portrait by Laura Makabresku

    'The Hollowing'

    "And whatever walked there, walked alone." ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

    1 MIN READ

  8. "The Knitting Lesson," oil on 36 x 28 canvas, 1885 painting by Arthur Hacker.

    'Tangled Threads'

    “But how do you speak to a granddaughter in her dead mother's stead? Can the responsibility to the dead ever be replaced by the responsibility to the living?”…

    1 MIN READ

  9. 'Almost, but not quite'

    'Almost, but not quite'

    "Almost" seems to be a recurring theme in my life. Never quite reaching. Always just barely.

    1 MIN READ

  11. Murder on the Orient Express

    'Her Requiem Express'

    A poem inspired by "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie.

    1 MIN READ

  12. 'A Life Measured'

    'A Life Measured'

    How do you measure the life of a woman or a man? In truths that she learned, or in times that he cried. In bridges he burned, or the way that she died. ⸺ Rent

    12 MIN READ

  13. 'Mercy, Cried the Monster'

    'Mercy, Cried the Monster'

    In this dark fairytale, a princess weeps golden tears and claims to be hunted by werewolves. But beneath her sorrow lies a truth: she is the real monster,…

    1 MIN READ

  14. ‘These scars water our love, still’

    ‘These scars water our love, still’

    A moving story of grief, devotion, and the haunting endurance of love, These Scars Water Our Love, Still follows a man who meets his estranged wife years after…

    12 MIN READ

  15. Black Shama, Copsychus cebuensis

    'Black Shama'

    “Black Shama” draws its name from the endangered bird native to Cebu — a quiet symbol of vanishing voices. The poem captures the tension between silence and…

    1 MIN READ

  16. "Die Barke des Charon." Oil on canvas, painting by Otto Brausewetter.

    'A Writer’s Space'

    “We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” —Anaïs Nin

    7 MIN READ