THE HALO-HALO REVIEW'S MANGOZINE--Issue No. 13

 In addition to aggregating reviews from the internet, THE HALO-HALO REVIEW presents The Mangozine which features new reviews and serves as the online publisher for reviews and other engagements (e.g. book introductions) published in print but not yet available within the internet.  Other features, including author interviews and reader testimonials, also will be presented. The following presents a Table of Contents for Issue 13 -- CLICK on links to go to the reviews.

Submission deadline for the 14th issue has been set at Nov. 15, 2022 (though we will take reviews sooner than the deadline if that is more convenient for the reviewers).

ISSUE 13

(April  2022)

Editor's Note:  Welcome to the 13th issue of THE HALO-HALO REVIEW where we provide engagements with Filipino-Pilipinz literature and art and authors/artists through reviews and engagements, interviews and other prose. We hope readers, writers, artists, and publishers will continue to participate and share information about numerous Filipino authors and the wide variety of their writings. 

I.  NEW REVIEWS AND ENGAGEMENTS

100 Pink Poems para ka Leni/for Leni edited by Noel Romero del Prado, Emmanuel Quintos Velasco and Krip Yuson (San Anselmo Press, Philippines, 2022)

Engaged by Eileen Tabios

The Son of Good Fortune by Lysley Tenorio (Ecco/Harper Collins, 2020)

Reviewed by Michael Caylo-Baradi

 

The short story “Here Be Dragons” from The Infinite Library and Other Stories by Victor Fernando R. Ocampo (Gaudy Boy, Singapore, 2021)

Reviewed by Justine Villanueva

Witness in the Convex Mirror by Eileen R. Tabios (TinFish Press, Hawai'i, 2019)

Engaged by Leny M. Strobel

 

Letters To A Young Brown Girl by Barbara Jane Reyes (BOA Editions Ltd., Rochester, NY, 2020)

Reviewed by Neil Leadbeater

FE: A Traumatized Son's Graphic Memoir by Bren Bataclan (Philippine American Writers and Artists Inc., 2020)

Reviewed by Elizabeth Ann Quirino

 

Marka Demonyo by Lourd De Veyra (Anvil, Philippines, 2020)

Reviewed by Aloysiusi Polintan

GO HERE for "Hot Take" reviews of

FORTH by Rosmon Tuazon, Trans. by Ben Aguilar (Balangay Books, 2021); Pesoa by Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles, Trans. by Kristine Ong Muslim (Balangay Books, 2021); Tangere by Rodrigo V. Dela Peña (UP Press, 2020); Pag-aaral sa Oras: Mga Lumang Tula Tungkol sa Bago by Kerima Lorena Tariman (High Chair, 2017); Lahat ng Nag-aangas Ay Inaagnas by Paolo Tiausas (UWU Books, 2020); and Maging Sa Silid: Mga Tula by Vanessa Haro (Self-Published, 2021) 

Reviewed by Eric Abalajon

GO HERE for Flash Reviews of

Banana Heart Summer by Merlinda Bobis (Anvil, 2020 reprint); The Kindness of Birds by Merlinda Bobis (Spinifex Press, Queensland, Australia, 2021); Wing of the Locust by Joel Donato Ching Jacob (Scholastic, 2020); City Stories by Angelo R. Lacuesta (Bughaw, Philippines, 2019); Ruins and Reconstructions by Joel M Toledo (Anvil, Philippines, 2011); Poems sing kwenta y cinco by Alfred Yuson (2010, Anvil) 

Reviewed by Aloysiusi Polintan

II. AUTHOR INTERVIEWS, POST-BOOK

Angela Narciso Torres / What Happens Is Neither

III. READERS SHOW SOME LOVE TO FILIPINO AUTHORS
Go HERE to read:

Leny Strobel on Greg Sarris

Eileen Tabios on Nick Carbó

IV.  FEATURES

"David Medalla: In Memoriam (1938-2020)" by Rene J. Navarro

Filipino Poets on Ukraine

Go HERE to read:

"HIGH NOON IN SITIO TAMBAC" by Cynthia Buiza

“Acts of War” by Aileen Cassinetto

“February” by Luisa A. Igloria

“What the Poets Are Saying About the War” by Luisa A. Igloria

“LINES WRITTEN FROM THE EDGE OF PRECIPICE” by Marne Kilates

“KILL RATE & KITTENS” by Marne Kilates

“Wife of Russian Soldier tells him, ‘You go there, rape Ukrainian women, but use condoms!’” by Eileen R. Tabios

“Shrapnel” by Alfred A. Yuson

V. FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE

Political Love by Eileen R. Tabios (Booksby Press, Parma, Ohio, 2021)

Reviewed by Neil Leadbeater