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Gemino Abad
My Country's Imp
And What Are Words
Casaroro Falls
English
I Teach My Child

Heidi Emily Eusebio Abad
Color My World
Asthma
God For the Day

Alejandro G. Abadilla
Sanaysay sa Tula
Ako Ang Daigdig

Karen Abella
Hibang

Jose Marte A. Abueg
Salamander: Ode to Old Nick
Island man
Song
Daybreak at Old Church
One Opal Midnight
Young Sky
Last Time, It Rained
Charcoal Days

Ericson Acosta
Walang Kalabaw sa Cubao

Tem M. Adlawan
Programa sa Akong Buhaton

Myrel Joeanne Agarano
Six a.m.
Nana

Allan Aguilar
Twist Karma, Cynthia

Mila D. Aguilar
Muging
83Eighty Three
Carabao Grass
Bibingkang Malagkit
Chess
The Beast
Ang Halimaw
Daisy Bomb
Dungan is Soul

Denise Chou Allas
Roofs

Erlinda K. Alburo
Akong Sonanoy
Proverbial Rain

Arnold Aldaba
God-Makers

Albert Alejo, S.J.
Kung ang Tula Ay Wala (Pasintabi sa Makata ng Obando)

Donna Alfonso
Rebolusyon!

Virgilio Almario (Rio Alma)
Sestina Sa Inaasahang Pagreretiro
Metamorposis: Mga Nota ng Isang Serenata Sa Kaibuturan ng Isang Gabing Disyembre
Ambahan ni Huwan De La Cruz (Kung May Hirap May Ginhawa)
Itinago Niya Ang Kanyang Dila
Huwag Hahampasin Ang Gutom Na Lamok
Kung Maaari Sana
Pagpalitin Kaya Natin Ang Pangalan
Isang Umaga, At Ang Bisyon ng Marami Pang Umagang Tulad Nito

Cora Almerino
Unsaon Paggisa sa Bana Nga Manghulga sa Asawang Dili Kahibalong Moluto
Sagdi Lang Kon Lamugdong Karon

Shelfa B. Alojamiento
Incendiary

Noel Alumit
Me Getting Laid Because I Got A Lot of Rejection Letters For My Writing

Merlie Alunan
The Bells Count in Our Blood
Bringing the Dolls
Kun Unsaon Pagdakop Ang Bulalakaw
Tilimad-on

Rene Estella Amper
Letter to Pedro, U.S. Citizen, Also Called Pete
Ang Nobyembre Bulan Sa Mga Bukog

Jaime An Lim
Short Time
Relative Distance

Carl Angel
4th February 1899

Carlos A. Angeles
Gabu
Landscape
Manhattan Rain
Seagulls

Rebecca Añonuevo
Lantay
Pag-aayuno
Pagtingala
Panghiling
Sa Huli
Stopover (Paghinto)

Roberto Añonuevo
Daglit Saglit

Anonymous. Early Tagalog poem
May Bagyo Ma't May Rilim

Camilo Antonio
A Cathedral
shoppers of paradise

Lamberto E. Antonio
Sa Kaarawan ng Makata
Ang Araro

Lilia F. Antonio
Asawa

Teo T. Antonio
Ang Aking Panulat Ay Isang Tag-araw
Bahay Kubo
Welga

Cecilio Apostol
Al 'Yankee' with translation by Nicanor Tiongson

Cesar Ruiz Aquino
Verb Lovely Flesh
Lines Towards the Bigger Bang
Green Poem
In Findland
Song
Sun

Dwane Arboleda
Mosaic

Francisco Arcellana
Prayer

Juaniyo Arcellana
Insomnia Ballad
Untitled From 1997

Carlo A. Arejola
Sampalataya sa Liwanag

Dulce Arguelles
God

Mesandel Virtusio Arguelles
Engkantasyon
Enigma
Intra Muros

Gracchus Lobaton Arinday
Those Bottles of Beer

Lisa Ascalon
September 11, 2001

Genevieve L. Asenjo
Pula ang Kulay ng Text Message
Kay Deding, Labandera
Trahedya ng Isang Birhen
Suso

Pantaleon S. Auman
Plano sa mga Brayt Pepol

Fernando Ayala
champagne talk
early morning wish
dust motes dancing
of kings and fools

Joey Ayala
ode to mango seed and mouth

Tita Lacambra Ayala
When I Talk
A Fool's Summer Song

Ime Morales Aznar
Father at Home With Kids

Ega Bacong
Hulagway sa Kapit-os
Ayaw Kahaylo

Jessie Badillo-Snyder
A Filipina Poet Plays Hide and Seek
Precipice

Maribel Q. Bagabaldo
Sulsi

Amado Bajarias
Bring Me the Head of Tim Yap Superstar Columnist!

Kermin Balawis
ano nga ba ang tula

Michael Balili
The Rape of Ganymede
They've Killed a Dog
1873 Bonnie and Clyde

Francisco Baltazar
Mahiganting Langit from Florante at Laura

Isabela Banzon
Sushi
Bumbay
DH Sunday, Hong Kong

Romulo P. Baquiran Jr.
Arowana

Mary Ann Aleli Barbieto
For My Foreign Lover

Joi Barrios
Yankee Doodle Goes to War
Yankee Doodle/Layas
Babaeng Namumuhay Nang Mag-Isa
Gahasa
Salome, Ang Tauhang Hindi Napabilang Sa Noli Me Tangere
Oyayi Sa Aking Ina
Usapang Babae
Kasalo

Rick Barot
Bonnard's Garden
At Point Reyes
Reading Plato

Dinah Rose Baseleres-Ladia
Why I Won't Have Sex With You
Wifey

Elbina Batala
Heart
There Is No Silence

Cirilo F. Bautista
Pedagogic
The Late and Hardly Lamented Canuplin
Caveat Emptor
The City and the Flood
Craftsmanship
The Day They Died
Falik: Henry Miller is Dead
The House
The Hunger
Lancets
Pangkor Bay
Parable
Presley, Chaplin, and Crosby
Rizal
Robert Kennedy from Baguio City
The Sea Speaketh
A Tale
Testimental
They
Under the Knife
Wishbones, Lakewoods, and Such
Charts
Shall
In a Baguio Restaurant
Thailand Blues
Israel Conquers Beirut
Lovers Learn
Vigil for Helen of Troy
Life and Death in Amalfi
Capri Amore
Amongst the Ruins of Ostia Antica
Being Blue in Switzerland
The Fountains at Villa D’Este, Tivoli
Walking around in Brussels
The House: An Elegy
Song of the Teargassed Man
Six Men in a Boat
One Hundred and Twelve Words for Rose Marie
Danak-Bunga Beach, Zambales
Politics
Caracoas
Nature as the Mirror of the Mind
Practicum for Patrimony
Astronauts
Variations on a Scene
Scenes from a 20th Century Mural
Diplomats
Everything is Tentative in the Snow
The Sea Cannot Touch
She of the Quick Hands: My Daughter
Tokyo International Airport

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             Sugat ng Salita
             Sunlight on Broken Stones

Michelle Bautista
what a giant spoon and fork look like to a five year old
Dreaming
Ticket of Admission VII

Ramon Bautista
The Capture
The Inauguration
The Trap
The Night of the Glow Worms
The Dream

Paulina F. Bautista
Kandila

Ronald Baytan
Pan Zhang

Jose Perez Beduya
The Next
A Distribution
Context
The Weather of the Painter

Herminio M. Beltran Jr.
Chair
The street flowers of Seoul
Arrival
Death
Petrodreaming

Merlinda Bobis

John Biton
Ang Suok Dunay Walay Kinutubang Gilapdon

Joan Bondoc
Ngarag

Carlene Sobrino Bonniver
After the Dance
Surface Tension
Fog
Breakfast
Haiku

Ariel Dim. Borlongan
From Saudi with Love

Lilledeshan Bose
Why I Won't Have Sex With You
Inheritance

Rofel Brion
Paano Na?
Biyernes Santo

Carlos Bulosan
Landscape with Figures

Randolf Bustamante
From Altitude 29,000

Luis Cabalquinto
Some Night
Night Gin
Lunad sa Tren
Banwang Tinubuan
Manga Ilaw sa Nassau
Asul Tropika
Sa Kasunod na Aldaw
Sa Baybayon
Hometown
Bughaw Tropika
Pasahero
Pandanggo sa Ilaw
Mga Ilaw sa Nassau
The Dog-Eater
September eleven
The pigeons ode
Red Layt
Kay Emmanuel
Mahiwagang Umaga
Before It Rains
Jar
Thoughts By The Seine
August Walk
On Vacation
Lucky
From the Dark

Regie Cabico
Letter to Dante Bosco
Letter to Lea Salonga
Upon Recalling the Filipino Dishes I Do Now Know How to Cook
Office in the Small City
tribute: the poet is shiva isis mothermary neffertiti & judy garland
The Twilight Zone
Mango Poem
Check One

Josua Cabrera
Hoy, Alimukon
Karon Day, Wa Nay Uso Ang Pasumbingay
Human Mibakho Ang Yuta Sa Villa San Pedro

Eduardo Jose E. Calasanz
Awit ng Kabalyero

Raymond T. Calbay
Andrea
Why Andrea Mustn't Decide to Die

Corazon Amaya Cañete
Mahirap Mahimbing
Pitungpu't Pitong Puting Tupa

Jose Wendell Capili
Temples
Pretensions on a River

Nick Carbo
Italian Postcard 37
Italian Postcard 51
Ang Tunay na Lalaki Meets Barbie At the Shark Bar
The Filipino Politician

Rolando A. Carbonell
Beyond Forgetting

Catalina Cariaga
Ten Twenty-Six

Gloria del Carmen
This Death
Mad World
Pagkukunwari

Ian Rosales Casocot
How to Look at an Email Bride Sighing Hope of Love in an Internet Cafe

Kristia Castrillo
New love
Tag by Ethnicity

Kimberly Castro
Don't Lie To Me About Power
The Spare Key

Albert B. Casuga
A Theory of Echoes
For the Grandson Who Did Not Choose to Stay
Returning to the Root
Small Talk at a Coffee Shop in Montparnasse
Songs For My Children
Studies for Poetry
The Canon of the Way and of Virtue
Houses Are Better Off Without Porches Here

Sotera Nazareno Catayas
Only Pride
Mixed Feelings

Rey Arcana Catura
Saad Kang Rizal

Mark Anthony Cayanan
The Loss
Against
How My Mother Got Fat
Envelop

Crisanto V. Cayon
Kasangka

Miguel Paolo Celestial
Three Nights in Venice

Virginia Cerenio
[we who carry the endless seasons]

Jose Jason Chancoco
Tigsikan #2
Sakyada
Ayuda
Simbag
Uniberso
Pananatili
Sa Nagising Mong Pandama
Two Poems

Julius Sering Clar
To the Coin-Divers of Surigao

M. de Gracia Concepcion
Lonely

Kristian S. Cordero
Pisog Nin Pagkamoot
Sa Sarong Subdivision
San Jose

Chati Coronel
Let

Michael M. Coroza
Putol
Palaging May Ulan ang Pamamaalam

Veronica Corpuz
From Obituary Study

Vincent Coscolluela
Deus Ex Machina
Why I Stopped Watching TV
Fun

Elsa Victoria Martinez Coscolluela
Cuernos de Negros
Katipunera

Jan Antoni A. Credo
Marino

Conchitina Cruz
Permit us to refresh your memory
The table shook. It was a choice
Memory

Ruben Cuevas
Prometheus Unbound

Amador T. Daguio
A Professor of English Writes a Letter

Jose Y. Dalisay Jr.
Bound for Saudi
At the Embassy

Carlomar Arcangel Daoana
Sameness
The Blue Hour
Sagada
fragment from a poem unwritten
Wonder
Memory From a Camping, Long Ago

Mabi P. David
Discord
A Childhood Memory
Faith
Waiting

Jonathan Davila
Sa Lamayan

Ricaredo Demetillo
An Old Man Totters on an Urban Street
W.H. Auden

Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta
A Kind of Burning
Montage
On a Slow Boat to Bohol
Children and Lovers

Alain Russ Dimzon
Paskwa

Edward C. Divinagracia
Ang Libing

Kristine Domingo
Juan Asks God
Juan's Errand of Carrying
Juan Luna's "Chula"
The Forbidden

Third Domingo
Villanelle Sa Pusong Masakit Hanggang Umaga

Simeon Dumdum Jr.
On the Death of a Five-Year Old
Love Makes the World Go Round

Adonis G. Durado
Sa Imong Pangutana Kung Nganong Adunay “Gilay-on”
Balak Alang Kang Yana
Balita
Dili Tanan Matagak Mahagbong
Duwaang Papel
Pagpangga

Jean Claire A. Dy
At My Funeral
The Skin Between Us
Ode to Al Ghozi

Nieves B. Epistola
Sixty-Five

Marlon Unas Esguerra
Judgment Day

Yvonne M. Esperas
Behind the Curtains

Federico Licsi Espino Jr.
Manila

Jerry Espinosa 
working in Cambridge

Gerardo F. Estañol
Mga Anino at Alaala

Eugene Y. Evasco
Hindi Ako Naliligaw sa Aking Katawan
Kundiman
Ang Lalaki sa Waiting Shed

Marjorie Evasco
La Condition Humaine
Tierra del Fuego
Sampaguita Song
Parisian Life
Sic Transit Mundi
Bodies of Gold
Sagada Stills in a Floating World
Jousisance
Caravan of the Waterbearers
The Quick Bruise and Run of Love
Griotte
Baked Oysters Rockefeller
Invitation From Latvia
Origami
Is It the Kingfisher?
Hands
Ochre Tones
Lullabye

Easy Fagela
Satan Rules

Cornelio C. Faigao
Night In A Small Town

Greg Fernandez
Bangka

Cheryl Fiel
Ginamos ug ang Kinabuhing Daplig-Dagat
Kagiron
Gugmang Gauros-uros

José T. Figueroa
Huring Paaram ni Dr. José P. Rizal (translation in Bicol)

Bert Florentino
3 Weeks in Aspen

Razel Ariz Florento
Cry: The Story of a Comfort Woman

Felix Fojas
Orange Grove Road
Far Country
Ithaca

Luis H. Francia
Coup d'Etat
What Picasso and Gauguin Would Have Seen On the Seven Train
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