Issue 39 of Marne Kilates' Poet's Picturebook is now finally live, after a two-month hiatus. Called "The Catch-up Issue," the journal boasts of 20 poems from A-list contributors:
Donato Mejia Alvarez - Ulan sa Loob ng Kawayan / Rain Inside a Stick
Michael Carlo Baradi - Portrait of a Soldier, Inside Subic Bay
Aileen Ibardaloza - Lolo Claudio in Colorado, It's Love Love Love in San Francisco
Aidan Rooney - The Shoes, Twelve Labors of Hercules
Jose Marte Abueg - Rain, Vijulet Jusi, Flag
Pasckie Pascua - Ten Dollars
Vicente Soria de Veyra - For UN Worker, Lila...
R. Torres Pandan - War, Patriotism
Robin Lim - September 11, 2001: An Embryo's Perspective
Marne Kilates - Man Dying
Alma Anonas-Carpio - Channeling Shiva, Katipuneras
Nick Carbó - Arrested Pantoum, Victor Peñaranda, Start the Day
Rio Alma - Alamat ng Ulan / Legend of the Rain
Read the issue here.