Barbara jane reyes blog sites

Barbara Jane Reyes is the author of Diwata(BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010). She was born in Manila, Philippines, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the author of two previous collections of poetry, Gravities of Center(Arkipelago Books, 2003) and Poeta en San Francisco(Tinfish Press, 2005), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets.

She has taught Creative Writing at Mills College, and Philippine Studies at University of San Francisco. She lives with her husband, poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland, where she is co-editor of Doveglion Press.

Barbara jane reyes blog sites free

For more information, please visit BarbaraJane’s website.


A LITTLE BIT ABOUT LOLA ILANG

During the war, the old women would still go outside the house to smoke their hand-rolled tobacco after cleaning the suppertime dishes.

But so the Japanese soldiers would not see them, they learned to flip their cigarettes with the lit ends inside their mouths. They flipped their cigarettes with their tongues so fast, and w