Posted in Words for Melissa on Aug 30th, 2009
By Alexander Martin Remollino
You thanked me for lending an ear to your story,
which you have said you will not tire of telling.
I can listen to your story a thousand times
or even for a thousand years,
because it is one of those stories that really matter
in an age when stories are rarely stories anymore.
Any story that tells
of [...]
Posted in Words for Melissa on Aug 26th, 2009
From Friends of Lolas
Originally posted on July 23, 2009, 5:45 PM
By M. Evelina Galang
Something happens to you when you are born outside of your parents’ mother country. You are born with a longing to go home to a place you’ve never been. You go about your business, being all American and knowing nothing else, ignoring [...]
Posted in Words for Melissa on Aug 23rd, 2009
From Kundiman
On May 19, 2009, Melissa Roxas, 31, an activist and Kundiman fellow from Los Angeles who had been doing volunteer health work in Tarlac Province in the Philippines, was kidnapped along with two other health volunteers for a nongovernmental nationalist group called Bayan.
Let us participate in a community of cymbals through poems– bringing noise [...]