Daughtersong Diaspore is a series of poems, epistolaries, lyric essays, unanswered questions, explorations of kapwa and loób, critical and confessional, de-colonial offerings of an American daughter for her late Filipino mother. Forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in 2027.

So happy to curate this Filipinx Poetas reading for this year's Flor y Canto at Medicine for Nightmares, featuring Aileen Cassinetto, Zoe Dorado, and Aimee Suzara.

Salamat to the ever generous Josiahluis Alderete for the opportunity and the space.

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Coming soon! See you folks at CCSF Mission Campus. Thank you to Professor John Isles in the Creative Writing Program, for bringing me back to your students!

Very helpful: Social Change Ecosystem Framework from Deepa Iyer.

You can find my books at the always awesome, always independent City Lights Bookstore. And thank you for supporting small businesses! citylights.com/author/barba...

So I started a non-profit book publication fund for Bay Area Filipina/o/x writers pawainc.com/new-page-14

So thrilled that Conrad A. Panganiban's WLEGA: A Filipino American Playwright's Journey will be the inaugural publication of the Poeta en San Francisco Publication Fund! @consplayspace.bsky.social

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Please send poems for a diasporic Filipina/o/x poetry anthology with roots in orality, to be edited by authors and educators Rachelle Cruz, Michelle Peñaloza, Barbara Jane Reyes, Janice Lobo Sapigao, & Von Torres, to be published by Flowersong Press. tinyurl.com/Filipinx-Ant...

Found on San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley.

"We know that to be a brown girl is to call the ocean is to call to the self is to know you have to find a way."