nameabledays Archive One

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Hi, Sir Marne. I love what you're doing with Poet's Picturebook. I actually drop by the blog a lot. :)—Ian Cosocot


Another "mob" hit from your ezine-cratic relevance to our lives!! For one.. your Bargala Church dome in Macedonia by Saira Penaranda had me quite fooled for a moment.. it had looked to me, at a Quark glance, like a classic dessert entree' with a veggie salad appetizer, yet.. just the same, it's really super delicious to have arrested and wooed down the now captive senses in me. —Edward Labadia

All this is to lead to where, finally, my M.B.A. counts for something. I've got a couple of questioning if not questionable poems in Marne Kilates' fabulous blog-based literary/arts journal Poets' PictureBook. It's for a so-called "Poetry and Math" issue and Marne thought my poems were "algebraic"...then notes in his Editor's Intro that I have an M.B.A. His take is amusing and amusingly welcome to Moi; even if inaccurate, I never challenge how others read my poems. Anyway, check out this lovely use of Blogger—and of course I'm highly honored to be featured in there with three of the Philippines' top poets: Cirilo Bautista, Marjorie Evasco and Victor Penaranda.—Eileen Tabios

Good to hear from you and great to see the finished copy of Issue 10. Maxim's work is stunning in "Nameable Days" too! Now I can add The Philippines to my international publication credit list. So glad we got to know one another.

—Maurice Oliver

First of all, hats off to you for your online project, The Poets' Picturebook. It's certainly a breath of fresh air--online--to have a website like yours… Many thanks for including my poem in your site. As I might have mentioned in my previous emails, it's an honor to be put alongside poets that I admire. I like the new clean design; it's sleek and easy on the eyes.—Igor de Peña

Yes, I visited the white pages and love the new look. Easier on the eyes, and you're right, the poems and images have their own luminousity. It is also great to read Frank's and Igor's works. Cheers to Poets' Picture Book and the indefatigable editor-poet!—Marjorie Evasco

I would like to thank you for the poem you have written, based on your musings on the painting I sent. I am very much eager to see it on Poet's Picture Book on the 15th. The poem has an effortless flow and rhythm, which help readers to ruminate on the possible thoughts and actions of the young girl in the painting.—Paul Gomez

Congrats, Marne. Ganda rin ng mga cover images mo.
 Man, you're an artiste, a painter who knows where to
source his pigments to compliment your lyrical
 landscapes.
Cheers. —Edd Aragon

Your blog just keeps getting better! It has more breathing space now, and the pictures are clearer. I believe that staring and gaping, if you permit yourself such, are the best you can do before pictures and poems such as these—that speak silently. Life is good, because what can be better than this? Ah, Manoy, this must be because of the rain, this being in the middle of sorrow and laughter, of the nameless and the coming of death. —Kristian Cordero

Aguy, Marne, this project keeps getting better. Wonderful Bikol poetry. My favorite is Eating Tinuktok. Viva la Virgen! —Bimboy (Victor Peñaranda)

Sooooper iyong writings ni tukayong penaranda...at,
actually, lahat sila. very profound ang mga sulat nila.
napasarap namnamin. nakaka-inspire tuloy magsulat.
natumbok baga iyong writer within natin. gagaling ninyo!
ito nga iyong sinasabing "nakakainis" o "grabe" sa ganda.
dito bola dahil lahat tayo nag-reresonate sa beauty, ika nga.

—Vics Magsaysay

Our Own Voice

(the Literary Ezine for the Filipino Diaspora)

BLOG REVIEW

Poet's Picturebook


poetry, art, photography, notes
from the archipelagoes of our imagination


By Remé Grefalda

This is a little literary ezine. Easy to miss among the many blaring blogspots on the ‘Net, but it was hard to resist an invitation from the poet, Marne Kilates who wondered if we would include his site among our links.

Your wish, Marne, is our command.

The wonder of cyberspace is in the existence of small havens, some hidden universe of quiet thoughts made to sparkle when read. That sense of wonder includes our surprise discovery. I envy insomniacs because they slosh through time and cyberspace and in their enforced patience stumble upon the jewel. So I share with readers the wonder of this poet's picturebook combining breathtaking photographs with the clarity of carefully chosen words. I speak of the prose because poetry fills its pages.

Kilates' eye for photography and digital art elevates his little ezine far above the notch of the usual blog of banter and blare. His inclusion of poetry by others and his own translations of Bikol poems invite the reader to pursue his archived issues for more of the same. There are 18 issues to date. No mean feat!

To say more would rob you of your own perusal. It was a journey for me, a true and refreshing haven away from so-called priorities that drain the spirit.

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