During the last quarter of 2017, I was lucky enough to be invited to give a talk on the ambahan, the traditional poetry of the Hanunuo Mangyans of Mindoro. Their poems are inscribed normally on bamboo ...

Move over, haiku, tanka, and the sonnet—the ambahan is here to stay. “Ambahan: A Love Story Poems” by Quintin Jose V. Pastrana, a 2021 release of the Far Eastern University, is no ordinary poetry ...

Inspired by the traditional poetry form of the Mangyans, Quintin Pastraña, an Asia 21 Alumnus, presents his new book of poetry, “Ambahan: A Love Story, written in the seven-syllable meter still used ...

Let us begin by talking about poems written by our anonymous ancestors before the Spaniards made landfall in what was then an archipelago of Muslim kingdoms. These oral poems were later transcribed by ...