Monday, May 1, 2023

POETRY

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(Listed in alphabetical order by poets' and editors' last names. Divided between Individual Poems, Poetry Collections and Anthologies. CLICK on links to go to reviews.)

INDIVIDUAL POEMS

"Village Potter's Wife" by Jim Pascual Agustin
Engaged by Colleen Higgs for the 2013 DALPRO Prize (New Coin) for BOOKS LIVE, Sept. 16, 2013

"Sand Clings To My Toes, Daddy" in Alien to Any Skin by Jim Pascual Agustin (UST Publishing House, 2011)
Reviewed by Seamus Sweeney for SF Site, 2010

The Everyday English Dictionary by Ivy Alvarez (Paekakariki Press, New Zealand, 2016)
Reviewed by Agape Editions for Blogging the Luminous, Dec. 19, 2017

"Watch" by Ivy Alvarez in VERSES TYPHOON YOLANDA edited by Eileen R. Tabios  (Meritage Press, San Francisco & St. Helena, 2014)
Reviewed by Rebecca Loudon for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015

"Tell Me Again" by Arlene Biala in Verde Que Te Quiero Verde: Poems After Federico Garcia Lorca edited by Natalie Peeterse (Lulu.com, 2016)
Reviewed by Urayoan Noel for Harriet/Poetry Foundation, September 2016

"Crossing the Park" by Luis Cabalquinto from THE ACHIEVE OF, THE MASTERY: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English, mid-90s to 2016edited by Gemino H. Abad and Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta (The University of the Philippines Press, 2018)
Engaged by Gemino H. Abad for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #7, December 2018

"On the Evenings of November" by Francisco Guevara from THE ACHIEVE OF, THE MASTERY: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English, mid-90s to 2016edited by Gemino H. Abad and Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta (The University of the Philippines Press, 2018)

Engaged by Gemino H. Abad for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #7, December 2018

"The Boatman's Spine Poetry," a poem and sculpture by Aileen Ibardaloza (2015)
Engaged by Eileen R. Tabios for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #2, February 2016

"Heart as Arena" from The Feeling is Actual (Marsh Hawk Press, New York, 2011) by Paolo Javier
Reviewed by Mirna Perrin-Louis for Galatea Resurrects #19, November 2012

"Against Explanation" (& Other Works) by Melissa Sipin from Twelfth House Journal
Engaged by Amanda [Ngoho] Reavey for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015

"What Can A Daughter Say?" by Eileen R. Tabios from THE LIGHT SANG AS IT LEFT YOUR EYES (Marsh Hawk Press, New York, 2007) and further reprinted in THE THORN ROSARY: Selected Prose Poems and New (1998-2010) (Marsh Hawk Press, New York, 2010) and INVENT(ST)ORY: Selected Catalog Poems & New (1996-2015) (Dos Madres Press, Loveland, OH, 2015).
Engaged by John Bloomberg-Rissman for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015

"Lyrics #3" by Jose Garcia Villa from Have Come, Am Here (Viking, New York, 1942)
Engaged by Rene Navarro for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #3, August 2016


POETRY COLLECTIONS

Meditations by Jonel Abellanosa (Alien Buddha Press, 2017)
Reviewed by Janine Pickett for Indiana Voice Journal, Dec. 10, 2017

Wings of Smoke by Jim Pascual Agustin (The Onslaught Press, 2017)
Reviewed by Aloysiusi Polintan for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #5, December 2017
Reviewed by Jennifer Finstrom for Eclectica Magazine, July/August 2017
Reviewed by Marius Carlos, Jr. for The FilAm Reporter, Feb. 16, 2017

Sound Before Water by Jim Pascual Agustin (UST Publishing, Philippines, 2013)
Reviewed by Rina Angela Corpus for GMA News Online, Aug. 6, 2015
Reviewed by Karin Shimke for Cape Times (South Africa), Feb. 7, 2014

Reviewed by Aloysiusi Polintan for Renaissance of a Notebook, May 29, 2016 

Baha-bahagdang Karupukan by Jim Pascual Agustin (UST Publishing, Philippines, 2011)
Reviewed by Gary Devilles, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Sept. 26, 2011

Nabighani: Mga Saling Tula ng Kapwa Nilikha by Albert E. Alejo (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2015)
Engaged byLeny M. Strobel for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #2, February 2016

After projects the resound by Kimberly Alidio (Black Radish Books, 2016)
Reviewed by Megan Heise, Something on Paper, March 2017
Reviewed by Heather Bowlan, MAKE SHIFT, 2017
Reviewed by Jessica Gonzalez for Galatea Resurrects #27, Dec. 10, 2016
Reviewed by Maria Vallarta for Weird Sister, Sept. 27, 2016
Engaged by Marthe Reed for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #2, February 2016

Diaspora Volume L by Ivy Alvarez (Paloma Press, San Mateo, 2019)
Reviewed by Natalie Linh Bolderston for Harana Poetry, November 2019
Reviewed by Aileen Ibardaloza Cassinetto for #allpinayeverything, Oct. 9, 2018

Hollywood Starlet by Ivy Alvarez (Dancing Girl Press, Chicago, 2015)
Reviewed by Jennifer MacBain-Stephens for The The, May 9, 2016
Engaged byRebecca Loudon for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #2, February 2016

Disturbance by Ivy Alvarez (Seren Press, Wales, 2013)
Reviewed by Nicholas Whitehead for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #2, February 2016
Reviewed by Andy Jackson for Cordite, Sept. 7, 2014
Reviewed by Rebecca Loudon for Galatea Resurrects #21, January 2014
Reviewed by John Bloomberg-Rissman for Galatea Resurrects #22, June 2014

OTHER REVIEWS are available through the author's website.

Mortal by Ivy Alvarez (Red Morning Press, Washington DC, 2006)
Reviewed by Craig Santos Perez for Boxcar Poetry Review, 2008
Reviewed by Ernesto Priego for Galatea Resurrects #6, May 2007
Reviewed by Jeannine Hall Gailey for Galatea Resurrects #6, May 2007
Reviewed by Anne Haines for Galatea Resurrects #5, February 2007
OTHER REVIEWS are available through the author's website.

Fire If It Were Ice, Ice If It Were Fire by Cesar Ruiz Aquino (Ateneo de Naga University Press, Philippines, 2017)
Reviewed by Alfred Yuson for The Philippine Star, June 12, 2017

Like a Shadow That Only Fits A Figure Of Which It Is Not The Shadow by Cesar Ruiz Aquino (UST Publishing House, Philippines, 2015)
Reviewed by Juaniyo Arcellana for The Philippine Star, July 6, 2015

Maybe Something by Isabela Banzon (UP Press, Philippines, 2015)
Reviewed by Alfred Yuson for The Philippine Star, Sept. 14, 2015

The Galleons by Rick Barot (Milkweed Editions, 2020)
Reviewed by Luisa A. Igloria for Rhino Magazine, November 2019

Chord by Rick Barot (Sarabande, Louisville, KY, 2015)
Reviewed by Stephen Burt for SFGate, Aug. 12, 2015

In Many Ways: Poems 2012-2016 by Cirilo F. Bautista (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2018)
Reviewed by Alfred Yuson for The Philippine Star, Manila, April 9, 2018

Believe & Betray: New and Collected Poems by Cirilo F. Bautista (De La Salle University Press, 2006)

Reviewed by Alfred Yuson for The Philippine Star, Manila, Aug. 21, 2006

KALI'S BLADE by Michelle Bautista (Meritage Press, San Francisco & St. Helena, 2007)
Reviewed by Jean Vengua for Galatea Resurrects #12, May 2009
Reviewed by Katherine Levy for Galatea Resurrects #11, December 2008
Reviewed by North American Review, 2009
OTHER REVIEWS are available through Meritage Press Blog (scroll down)


THRONG by Jose Perez Beduya (Lake Forest College Press / &NOW Books, 2012)
Reviewed by Raymond de Borja for The Volta, Jan. 18, 2016

BRIDGEABLE SHORES: Selected Poems (1969-2001) by Luis Cabalquinto (Kaya Press, New York, 2001)

Editor's Introduction in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015
Reviewed byNeal Leadbeater for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #2, February 2016
Reviewed by Linda Nguyen for Galatea Resurrects #11, December 2008
Reviewed by Beatriz Tabios for Galatea Resurrects #7, August 2007

Secret Asian Man by Nick Carbó (Tia Chucha Press, Chicago, 2000)

Reviewed by Cynthia Arrieu-King for Galatea Resurrects #3, August 2006

EXCEPT YOU ENTHRALL ME by Mark Anthony Cayanan (University of the Philippines Press, 2013)
Reviewed by Aloysiusi Salome Polintan for Galatea Resurrects, October 2017

Katipunera and Other Poems by Elsa Martinez Coscollueia (Anvil Publishing, 1998)
Reviewed by Yvonne Hortillo for Galatea Resurrects #1, March 4, 2006

TFS by Mary Dacorro (in manuscript)
Reviewed by Chris Stroffolino for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #7, December 2018

Clairvoyance by Carlomar Arcangel Daoana (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, Philippines, 2011)
Reviewed by Aloysiusi Lionel Polintan for Galatea Resurrects, February 2017

SPLEEN by Mabi David (High Chair, 2014)
Reviewed by Aloysiusi Polintan for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #7, December 2018

You Are Here by Mabi David (High Chair, Quezon City, 2009)
Reviewed by Emong Deborja for Galatea Resurects #13, December 2009

Humpty Drumpfty and Other Poems by Melinda Luisa de Jesús (Moria Books/Locofo, 2017)

Reviewed by Eileen Tabios for Galatea Resurrects, February 2017
Reviewed by Steve Klepetar for Galatea Resurrects, March 2017

The Boy in the Labyrinth by Oliver de la Paz (University of Akron Press, 2019)
Reviewed by Jonathan Farmer for on the seawall, Oct. 1, 2019

Post Subject: A Fable by Oliver de la Paz (University of Akron Press, 2014)
Reviewed by Carlo Matos for Tupelo Quarterly, January 2014

Reviewed by Michelle Penaloza for Poetry Northwest, 2015

Requiem For the Orchard by Oliver de la Paz (University of Akron Press, 2010)
Reviewed by Eileen Tabios for Galatea Resurrects #15, December 2010

Names Above Houses by Oliver de la Paz (Southern Illinois University Press, 2001)
Reviewed by Cristina Querrer for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #2, February 2016
Reviewed by Craig Santos Perez for Galatea Resurrects #7, August 2007

Insectisimmo by Lourd de Veyra
Engaged by Ramil Digal Gulle, InkCanto, 2021

Passional (New Poems and Some Translations by Ophelia A. Dimalanta (UST Publishing House, Philippines, 2002)
Reviewed by Francis C. Macansantos for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015

The Poet Learns to Dance (The Dancer Learns to Write a Poem) by Simeon Dumdum, Jr. (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2016)
Reviewed by Alfred Yuson for The Philippine Star, April 4, 2016)

Partly Cloudy: Poems by Simeon Dumdum, Jr. (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, Philippines, 2017)
Reviewed by Alfred Yuson for The Philippine Star, June 12, 2017

Eighty-Four Words for Sorrow by Simeon Dumdum, Jr. (Ateneo de Naga University Press, Philippines, 2014)
Reviewed by Alfred Yuson for The Philippine Star, Aug. 10, 2015

Dili Tanang Matagak Mahagbong (Not All that Drops Falls) by Adonis Durago, Translated by Merlie M. Alunan (Asteismus, Philippines, 2008)
Reviewed by Juaniyo Arcellana for The Philippine Star, Jan. 26, 2009

Skin of Water by Marjovie Evasco (Aria, 2009)
Reviewed by Vincenz Serrano for High Chair Review, July-Dec., 2011

Ochre Tones by Marjorie Evasco (Salimbayan Books, South Africa, 1999)
Reviewed by Yvonne Hortillo for Galatea Resurrects #2, May 2006

Zamboanguena by Corrine Fitzpatrick (Sona Books, Brooklyn, 2007)
Reviewed by Eileen Tabios for Galatea Resurrects #9, March 30, 2008

Tattered Boat by Luis Francia (University of the Philippines Press, Quezon City, Philippines, 2014)
Reviewed by Maileen Hamto for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #7, December 2018
Reviewed by Neil Leadbeater for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #5, December 2017
Reviewed by Rhett Pascual for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #2, February 2016

THE BEAUTY OF GHOSTS: FIVE VOICES: A Theater of Poetry by Luis H. Francia
(Ateneo de Manila University Press, Quezon City, 2010)
Engaged by Eileen R. Tabios for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #2, February 2016

MUSEUM OF ABSENCES by Luis H. Francia (Meritage Press, San Francisco & St. Helena, 2003)

Reviewed by Neal Leadbeater in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW, June 2018
Reviewed by Ralph Semino Galan in his Discernments: Literary Essays, Cultural Critiques and Book Reviews (UST Publishing House, 2013)
Reviewed by Monica Wong for Galatea Resurrects #11, December 2008
Reviewed by Yvonne Hortillo for HYPHEN Magazine, 2006
OTHER REVIEWS are available through Meritage Press Blog (scroll down)

Have by Marc Gaba (Tupelo Press, 2011)

Reviewed by Raymond de Borja for HTMLGIANT, Jan. 3, 2014

From the Major Arcana by Ralph Semino Galan (UST Publishing House, Manila, 2014)
Reviewed by Sooey Valencia for Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 16, 2015

AMIGO WARFARE by Eric Gamalinda (Cherry Grove Collections, 2007)

Reviewed by H. Francisco V. Penones, Jr. for Galatea Resurrects #10, July 2008
Reviewed by Patrick Rosal for Galatea Resurrects #8, November 2007

ZERO GRAVITY by Eric Gamalinda (Alice James Books, 1999)
Reviewed by Patrick Rosal for Galatea Resurrects #8, November 2007
Reviewed by Eileen Tabios for Galatea Resurrects #8, November 2007

Lyrics From A Dead Language by Eric Gamalinda (Anvil, Manila, 1991)
Reviewed by Eileen Tabios for Galatea Resurrects #8, November 2007

LOVES  YOU by Sarah Gambito (Persea Books, 2019)

Reviewed by Diana Whitney, SF Chronicle, April 1, 2019

Matadora by Sarah Gambito (Alice James Books, 2005)
Reviewed by Alfred Yuson for The Philippine Star, Manila, April 11, 2005


My Favorite Warlord by Eugene Gloria (Penguin, New York, 2012)
Publishers Weekly, June 25, 2012

Hoodlum Birds by Eugene Gloria  (Penguin, New York, 2006)
Reviewed by Robert Pinsky for Washington Post, April 9, 2006

Drivers At The Short-Time Motel by Eugene Gloria (Penguin, New York, 2000)
Reviewed by Melanie Rehak for The New York Times on the Web, Aug. 20, 2000
Kirkus Reviews,  May 1, 2000 
Publishers Weekly, May 29, 2000 

BLUE by Reme A. Grefalda and Wesley St. Jo (Paloma Press, San Mateo, 2017)
Reviewed by Brianne Alphonso for Jacket2, July 6, 2017
Reviewed by Carlene Sobrino Bonnivier for Galatea Resurrects, Sept. 1, 2017
Reviewed by Joey Madia for Literary Aficionado, Aug. 15, 2017

baring more than soul by Reme A. Grefalda (Dorrance Publishing, Pittsburgh, 1997)

Reviewed by Aileen Ibardaloza for Galatea Resurrects #11, December 2008

The Silences That Attend to Us by F. Guevara (University of Santo Tomas, Philippines, 2015)
Reviewed by Raymond de Borja for Entropy, Feb. 11, 2019

EVOCARE by Ayo Gutierrez, Eileen R. Tabios and Brian Cain Aene (GMGA, Philippines, 2019)
Reviewed by Andrea E. Lodge for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #8, November 2019

YEARNINGS by Ayo Gutierrez (sp/Amazon, Philippines, 2018)
Eileen Tabios presents Foreword for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #7, December 2018

Danger and Beauty by Jessica Hagedorn (City Lights Books, San Francisco)
Reviewed by Jennifer Curry for A Gathering of the Tribes, July 22, 2001

The Pink House of Purple Yam Preserves and Other Poems by Aileen Cassinetto (Ibardaloza) (Little Dove Books, Morgan Hill, 2018)

Reviewed by Neal Leadbeater for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #8, November 2019

TWEET by Aileen Cassinetto (Ibardaloza) (Moria Books' Locofo Chaps, Chicago, 2017)

Reviewed by Andrew Taylor for The Ofi Press Magazine #54 (Pp. 24-25), July 2017

B & O Blues by Aileen Cassinetto (Ibardaloza) (Moria Books' Locofo Chaps, Chicago, 2017)

Reviewed by M. Earl Smith for Galatea Resurrects, May 2017

traje de boda by Aileen Ibardaloza (Meritage Press, San Francisco & St. Helena, 2010)

Reviewed by Chris Mansel for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #3, August 2016
Reviewed by Albert B. Casuga for Galatea Resurrects #15, December 2010
OTHER REVIEWS are available through Meritage Press Blog (scroll down)

The Buddha Wonders If She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis by Luisa A. Igloria (Phoenicia Publishing, Canada, 2014)

Reviewed by Robbi Nester for North of Oxford, Sept. 1, 2018
Ira Sukrungruang presents Foreword for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #7, December 2018

CHECK & BALANCE by Luisa A. Igloria 
(Moria Books' Locofo Chaps, Chicago, 2017)
Reviewed by M. Earl Smith for Galatea Resurrects, May 2017

Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser by Luisa A. Igloria (Utah State University Press, 2014)

Reviewed by Ann E. Michael for Poets' Quarterly, Nov. 18, 2015
Foreword by Mark Doty

Night Willow by Luisa A. Igloria (Phoenicia Publishing, Canada, 2014)

Reviewed by Karen An-Hwei Lee for The Volta, Nov. 1, 2014
Reviewed by Vince Gotera for North American Review, 2015

The Saints of Streets by Luisa A. Igloria (University of Santo Tomas, Philippines, 2013)
Reviewed by Henry for The Lantern Review Blog, Dec. 12, 2013
Reviewed by Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta for Philippine Graphic Magazine, Sept. 30, 2013
Reviewed by Christian Anton Gerard for The Rumpus, April 11, 2014
Reviewed by Robbi Nester for New York Journal of Books

Juan Luna's Revolver by Luisa A. Igloria (Notre Dame Press, 2009)

Reviewed by Stephen Hong Sohn for American Quarterly, Sept. 2010
Reviewed by Allen Gaborro for Philippine News, March 6-12, 2009
OTHER REVIEWS are available through the author's website

Trill And Mordent by Luisa A. Igloria (WordTech Communications, 2005)
Reviewed by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz for Galatea Resurrects #1, March 2006

OTHER REVIEWS are available through the author's website

O.B.B. (The Original Brown Boy) by Paolo Javier (Nightboat Books, New York 2021)
Reviewed by Don Yorty for Don Yorty Explorations (November 2021)

The Feeling is Actual by Paolo Javier (Marsh Hawk Press, New York, 2011)

Reviewed by Alan Ramon Clinton for the Poetry Project Newsletter, Feb./March, 2012
Reviewed by Philip Troy for Galatea Resurrects #17, December 2011

Court of the Dragon by Paolo Javier (Nightboat Books, New York, 2015)
Reviewed by Urayoan Noel for Harriet/Poetry Foundation, September 2016
Reviewed by Chris Mansel for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #2, February 2016
Engaged by Jill Magi on Jill Magi's Blog, 2016
Reviewed by Alan Ramon Clinton for The Volta, 2015
Reviewed by Publishers Weekly, May 2015

60 lv bo(e)mbs by Paolo Javier (O Books, Oakland, 2005)
Reviewed by Craig Santos Perez for Galatea Resurrects #5, February 2007
Reviewed by Allen Gaborro for Philippine News, Feb. 20, 2006

the time at the end of this writing by Paolo Javier (ahadada books, Tokyo & Toronto, 2004) 
Reviewed by Craig Santos Perez for Galatea Resurrects #5, February 2007

Driving Without a License by Janine Joseph (Alice James Books, 2016)
Reviewed by Steve Fellner for RAIN TAXI, Spring 2017
Reviewed by Michael Levan for American Microreviews and Interviews, 2016

Burning Houses: Poems by Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta (University of Santo Tomas, 2013)
Reviewed by Charlie Samuya Veric for Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia (Ateneo de Manila, 2016)

The Proxy Eros by Mookie Katigbak (Anvil, Manila, 2008)
Reviewed by Juaniyo Arcellana for The Philippine Star, Jan. 26, 2009
Reviewed by Mabi David for High Chair Review, July-Dec., 2008

Lyrical Objects: New and Selected Poems by Marne Kilates (University of Santo Tomas, 2016)
Reviewed by Alfred A. Yuson for The Philippine Star, March 7, 2016

Prime Time Apparitions by R. Zamora Linmark (Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn, 2005)
Reviewed by Sheila Bare for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #2, February 2016 

The Evolution of a Sigh by R. Zamora Linmark (Hanging Loose Press, Brooklyn, 2008)
Reviewed by Sheila Bare for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #2, February 2016

Archipelago Dust by Karen Llagas (Meritage Press, San Francisco & St. Helena, 2010)
Reviewed by Neil Leadbeater for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #8, November 2019
Reviewed by Allen Bramhall for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015
Reviewed by G. Justin Hulog for Galatea Resurrects #17, December 2011
Reviewed by Abigail Licad for Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, February 2011

Dancing Between Bamboo Poles: Poetry and Essay by Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor 
Reviewed by Nathalie de Los Santos for Chopsticks Alley, March 11, 2021

Snail Fever: Poems of Two Decades by Francis C. Macansantos (UP Press, 2016)
Reviewed by Alfred Yuson for The Philippine Star, Jan. 8, 2018

A Series of Un/Natural/Disasters by Cheena Marie Lo (Commune Editions, 2016)
Reviewed by Kimberly Alidio for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #4, February 2017
Reviewed by Julian Francis Park for Jacket2, Aug. 10, 2016
Reviewed by Hollyn Huitt for PANK, June 28, 2016
Reviewed by Jameson Fitzpatrick for Lambda Literary, May 22, 2016
Reviewed by Publishers' Weekly, April 2016

Snail Fever: Poems of Two Decades by Francis C. Macansantos (University of the Philippines, 2016)
Reviewed by Arlene Yandug in Kinaadman, Vol. 37

Passages: Poems 1983-2006 by Edward B. Maranan (Bookmark, Manila, 2007)

Reviewed by Aileen Ibardaloza for Galatea Resurrects #11, December 2008
Reviewed by Alfred Yuson  for The Philippine Star, Feb. 18, 2008)

Heading Home by Loreta M. Medina (Giraffe Books, Quezon City, Philippines, 1996)
Reviewed by Laurel Johnson for Galatea Resurrects #2, May 2006


Meditations of a Beast by Kristine Ong Muslim (Cornerstone Press, 2016)
Reviewed by Frances Klein for 87 Bedford, Jan. 28, 2020

Lifeboat by Kristine Ong Muslim (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2015)
Reviewed by Aloysiusi Lionel Polintan for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #4, February 2017
Reviewed by Lynn Domina, July 21, 2016
Reviewed by Michael Prihoda for After the PauseDecember 7, 2015
Reviewed by Jennifer Swanton Brown for The Literary Nest, January 2016
Other reviews are available through the author’s website

A Roomful of Machines by Kristine Ong Muslim (ELJ Publications, 2015)
Reviewed by Emma Lee for Emma Lee’s BlogAugust 5, 2015
Other reviews are available through the author’s website

OCEANIC by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Copper Canyon Press, 2018)
Reviewed by Diana Whitney for San Francisco Chronicle, May 28, 2018
Reviewed by Joshua Bartlett for Ploughshares Blog, April 10, 2018

At the Drive-In Volcano by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Tupelo Press, 2007)
Reviewed by Alfred Yuson  for The Philippine Star, Feb. 18, 2008)

SILENT ANATOMIES by Monica Ong (Kore Press, 2014)
Reviewed by Serina Aidasani, Positively Filipino, November 2018

Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire by Michelle Peñaloza (Inlanda Books, Riverside, CA, 2019)
Reviewed by Pamela Hobart Carter for The Seattle Star, Jan. 28, 2020
Reviewed by Ina Carino for RHINO, November 2019

All Things Lose Thousands of Times by Angela Penaredondo (Inlandia Books, Riverside, CA, 2016)
Reviewed by Jordan Alam for Hyphen Magazine, July 7, 2016
Foreword by Mg Roberts

Little Anodynes by Jon Pineda (The University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, SC, 2015)
Introduction by Oliver de la Paz in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #2, February 2016

Leaving Our Shadows Behind Us by Elmer Omar Bascos Pizo (Bamboo Ridge, Hawai'i, 2018)
Reviewed by Tony Robles, Oct. 31, 2019

Mangyan Treasures on The Ambahan: A Poetic Expression of the Mangyan of Southern Mindoro, Philippines by Antoon Postma (Mangyan Heritage Center, Mindoro, 2005)

Reviewed by Eileen Tabios for Galatea Resurrects #24, May 2015

NOT EVEN DOGS by Ernesto Priego (Meritage Press, San Francisco & St. Helena, 2007)

Eileen R. Tabios' Afterword in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015
OTHER REVIEWS are available through the publisher's book site.

The Art of Exporting by Cristina Querrer (dancing girl press & studio, 2011)
Reviewed by Chris Mansel for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #2, February 2016
Reviewed by Eileen R. Tabios for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #3, August 2016
Reviewed by Chris Mansel, The Daily Art Source, Sept. 4, 2016

The Gods We Worship Live Next Door by Bino A. Realuyo (University of Utah, 2006)
Reviewed by Kathy Graber for The Literary Review, Fall 2006
Reviewed by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz for Galatea Resurrects #7, August 2007
Reviewed by Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor for Galatea Resurrects #5, February 2007
OTHER REVIEWS are available through the author's website

MARILYN by Amanda Ngoho Reavey (The Operating System, 2015)
Reviewed by Maria T. Vallarta for TAYO Literary Magazine, May 2016
Reviewed by Davy Knittle for American Microreviews & Interviews, Feb. 2, 2016

Letters to a Young, Brown Girl by Barbara Jane Reyes (BOA Editions, 2020)
Reviewed by Asa Drake, Entropy, July 27, 2020
Reviewed by Ella deCastro Baron for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #10, November 2020 

Invocation to Daughters by Barbara Jane Reyes (City Lights Books, San Francisco, 2017)
Reviewed by Aileen Ibardaloza Cassinetto for #allpinayeverything, Oct. 9, 2018
Reviewed by Yasmin Majeed for Ploughshares Blog, March 3, 2018
Reviewed by Soleil David in Post No Ills, Sept. 20, 2018

To Love as Aswang by Barbara Jane Reyes (Philippine American Writers & Artists, San Francisco, 2015)
Reviewed by April Joseph for TAYO, November 2016
Reviewed by Urayoan Noel for Harriet/Poetry Foundation, September 2016
Reviewed by Rose Booker for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #3, August 2016
Reviewed by Veronica Montes for Goodreads, June 17, 2016
Reviewed by Arlene Biala for Goodreads, Nov. 19, 2015
Reviewed by Jeremy Allan Hawkins for The Rumpus, May 27, 2016

For The City That Nearly Broke Me by Barbara Jane Reyes (Aztlan Press, San Antonio, TX, 2012)

Reviewed by Gayle Romasanta for Galatea Resurrects #19, November 2012

DIWATA by Barbara Jane Reyes (BOA Editions, Rochester, N.Y., 2010)
Reviewed by Mariejoy San Buenaventura for Ramkhamhaeng University's Journal Humanities Edition, Vol. 37, No. 1
Reviewed by G. Justin Hulog for Galatea Resurrects #16, March 2011
Reviewed by Eileen Tabios for Galatea Resurrects #15, December 2010
Reviewed by Vince Gotera for North American Review, 2015

Poeta en San Francisco by Barbara Jane Reyes (Tinfish, Kaneohe, HI, 2005)
Reviewed by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz for Galatea Resurrects #2, May 2006

Gravities of Center by Barbara Jane Reyes (Arkipelago Books Publishing, San Francisco, 2003)
Eileen R. Tabios' introduction in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015 

Anemal Uter Meck by Mg Roberts (Black Radish Press, 2017)
Reviewed by Marthe Reed for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #3, August 2016

not so, sea by Mg Roberts (Durga Press, 2014)

Introduction by Amanda [Ngoho] Reavey in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015
Reviewed by April Joseph for Galatea Resurrects #24, May 2015

Fingerprints of a Hunger Strike by Tony Robles (Ithuriel's Spear, San Francisco, 2017)
Reviewed by Veronica Montes, Goodreads, Jan. 6, 2018

Cool Don't Live Here No More: A Letter to San Francisco by Tony Robles (Ithuriel's Spear, San Francisco, 2015)
Reviewed by Jerry Dear for Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Newsletter, Spring 2016

Brooklyn Antediluvian by Patrick Rosal (Persea Books, New York, 2016)
Reviewed by Alfred A. Yuson for Philippine Star, Aug. 8, 2016
Reviewed by Publishers Weekly, May 2016

American Kundiman by Patrick Rosal (Persea Books, New York, 2006)
Reviewed by Theresa Tensuan for Galatea Resurrects #6, May 2007

Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive by Patrick Rosal (Persea Books, New York, 2003)

Reviewed by Theresa Tensuan for Galatea Resurrects #6, May 2007

BALIKBAYANG MAHAL: Passages from Exile by E. San Juan, Jr. (Philippine Studies Center, Washington D.C., 2007/2017)
Engaged by Eileen R. Tabios for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #4, February 2017

AMBIL:
 Mga Pagsubok, Pahiwatig & Interbensyon by E. San Juan (CreateSpace/Amazon, 2014)
Reviewed by Roger Rigor in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #3, August 2016
Reviewed by Ivan Labayne, The Philippines Matrix Project, May 26, 2015
Reviewed by Karlo Mongaya, Blog, Dec. 3, 2014

Wala: Mga Tula by E. San Juan, Jr. (Polytechnic University of the Philippines Press, 2016; revised edition, Philippines Studies Center, 2018
Reviewed by Karlo I. Mikhail Mongaya for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #8, November 2019

TULA by Chris Santiago (Milkweed Editions, 2017)
Reviewed by Tyler Burdwood for Grist Journal, July 31, 2017

AFTER THE SUNSTONE by Michellan Sarile-Alagao (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016)
Reviewed by Christine Fojas for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #5, December 2017

INTENTIONS OF ALIGNED DEMARCATIONS by Felino A. Soriano (Desperanto, New York, 2011)
Prologue by Duane Locke

Compatible Aspects of the Disparate Endeavor by Felino A. Soriano (NeoPoiesis Press, 2011)

In Praise of Absolute Interpretation by Felino A. Soriano (Desperanto, New York, 2010)
Reviewed by Constance Adler for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #3, August 2016

Of Collocated Rhythms by Felino A. Soriano (Naissance, 2010)
Reviewed by Alison Ross for CLOCKWISE CAT, Nov. 13, 2010
OTHER REVIEWS are available at the author’s website

APPERCEPTIONS OF REINTERPRETATIONS by Felino A. Soriano (Calliope Nerve Media, 2009)
Reviewed by Diana C. Hoagland for Leaf Garden, August 2010

Hinge Trio by Heller Levinson, Lynda Lynch and Felino A. Soriano (La Alameda Press, Albuquerque, NM, 2012)
Reviewed by Alison Ross for CLOCKWISE CAT, April 2, 2013
Reviewed by Calvin Pennix for QUARTER AFTER, July 7, 2013

Dissonant Umbrellas by Angelo Suarez (UST Publishing House, 2007)
Reviewed by Adam David in High Chair Review, July-Dec., 2008

SOUVENIR by Aimee Suzara (WordTech Editions, 2014) 

Reviewed by Urayoan Noel for Harriet/Poetry Foundation, September 2016
Reviewed by David Rudolph for Galatea Resurrects #22, June 2014

A Secret Life by Maxine Syjuco (Artquest Worldwide, Philippines, 2008)
Reviewed by Juaniyo Arcellana for The Philippine Star, Jan. 26, 2009

The In(ter)vention of the Hay(na)ku: Selected Tercets 1996-2019 by Eileen R. Tabios (Marsh Hawk Press, New York, 2019)
Reviewed by Maileen Hamto for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #, November 2019 

WITNESS IN THE CONVEX MIRROR by Eileen R. Tabios (TinFish Press, Hawai'i, 2019)
Reviewed by Jeanna Paden for Harbor Review, December 2019
Reviewed by g emil reutter for North of Oxford, 2019

THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL: Selected Visual Poetry (2001-2019) by Eileen R. Tabios (Paloma Press, San Mateo, 2019)
Reviewed by Leny M. Strobel, Medium, Feb. 6, 2019

MURDER DEATH RESURRECTION: A Poetry Generator by Eileen R. Tabios (Dos Madres Press, Loveland, OH, 2018)
Engaged by Leny M. Strobel for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #7, December 2018
Reviewed by Joey Madia for Literary Aficionado, Feb. 11, 2018
Engaged by Leny M. Strobel, MEDIUM, Jan. 13, 2018
OTHER REVIEWS are at the author's website

HIRAETH: Tercets from the Last Archipelago by Eileen R. Tabios (Knives, Forks and Spoons Press, U.K., 2018)
Reviewed by Steve Spence, Litter Magazine, December 2018

Love In A Time of Belligerence by Eileen R. Tabios (Editions du Cygne, Paris, 2017)
Reviewed by Neal Leadbeater for Contemporary Literary Review India Annual Print Edition, 2018
Reviewed by Grady Harp, Amazon Hall of Fame Reviewer, Sept. 16, 2017

MANHATTAN: An Archipelago by Eileen R. Tabios (Paloma Press, San Mateo, 2017)
Reviewed by Brianne Alphonso for Jacket2, July 6, 2017
Reviewed by T.C. Marshall for The FilAm, Sept. 3, 2017
Reviewed by Zvi Sesling for Boston Small Press and Poetry Scene, Sept. 18, 2017
OTHER REVIEWS are at the author's website

TANKA, Vol. I by Eileen R. Tabios (Simulacrum Press, Ontario, 2018)
Reviewed by Neil Leadbeater for The FilAm, Sept. 20, 2018

IMMIGRANT: Hay(na)ku And Other Poems  In A New Land by Eileen R. Tabios (Moria Locofo, Chicago, 2017)
Reviewed by M. Earl Smith for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #6, June 2018

THE OPPOSITE OF CLAUSTROPHOBIA: Prime's Anti-Autobiography by Eileen R. Tabios (Knives, Forks and Spoons Press, U.K., 2017)
Reviewed by Nikki Dudley for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #5, December 2017
Reviewed by Jonathan Mulcahy-King for X-Peri, Sept. 27, 2017
Reviewed by Alan Baker for Leafe Press/Litter, January 2017

If They Hadn't Worn White Hoods, ... by Eileen R. Tabios with John Bloomberg-Rissman (Moria Locofo, Chicago, 2017)
Reviewed by M. Earl Smith for Galatea Resurrects, April 2017

TO BE AN EMPIRE IS TO BURN! by Eileen R. Tabios (Moria Locofo, Chicago, 2017)
Reviewed by Maileen Hamto for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #7, December 2018
Reviewed by M. Earl Smith for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #5, December 2017
Reviewed by Freke Raiha for Galatea Resurrects, April, 2017

AMNESIA: Somebody's Memoir by Eileen R. Tabios (Black Radish Books, New York-San Francisco, 2016)
Reviewed by Dina Paulson-McEwen for WALK THE LINE, June 13, 2017
Reviewed by Valerie Morton for E-Ratio 23, January 2017
Reviewed by Kevin Killian for Amazon.com, Jan. 16, 2017
Reviewed by Grady Harp for Amazon.com, Jan. 8, 2017
OTHER REVIEWS are available at the author's website

I FORGOT ARS POETICA by Eileen R. Tabios (Bibliotheca Universalis, Romania, 2016)
Reviewed by Valerie Morton for Leafe Press/Litter, January 2017

The Gilded Age of Kickstarters by Eileen R. Tabios (dancing girl press, Chicago, 2016)
Reviewed by Neal Leadbeater for Otoliths, May 1, 2017
Reviewed by Jim McCrary for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #4, February 2017

EXCAVATING THE FILIPINO IN ME by Eileen R. Tabios (Tinfish, Hawai'i, 2016)
Reviewed by M. Earl Smith for The FilAm Magazine, July 6, 2017
Reviewed by Aileen Ibardaloza for Filipina American Literature Recommendations, 2016

THE CONNOISSEUR OF ALLEYS by Eileen R. Tabios (Marsh Hawk Press, New York, 2016)
Reviewed by Joey Madia for New Mystics Reviews, July 27, 2016
Reviewed by Leny M. Strobel for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #3, August 2016
Reviewed by Daniel Y. Harris and Irene Koronas for X-Peri, July 14, 2016
Reviewed by Marthe Reed for The Volta, July 4, 2016
Reviewed by Chris Mansel for The Daily Art Source, March 28, 2016
Vince Gotera presents Foreword for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #7, December 2018

INVENT(ST)ORY: Selected Catalog Poems & New 1996-2015 by Eileen R. Tabios (Dos Madres Press, Loveland, OH, 2015)
Reviewed by Neal Leadbeater for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #2, February 2016
Reviewed by Joey Madia for New Mystics Review, Nov. 18, 2015
Reviewed by Allen Bramhall for Mandala's Web, Sept. 12, 2015
Introduction by Thomas Fink in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #2, February 2016 
OTHER REVIEWS are available through the author's website

I FORGOT LIGHT BURNS by Eileen R. Tabios (Moria Books, Chicago, 2015)
Afterword by Eileen R. Tabios
Reviewed by Joey Madia for New Mystics Reviews, May 28, 2015
OTHER REVIEWS are available through the author's website

AGAINST MISANTHROPY: A Life in Poetry (2015-1995) by Eileen R. Tabios (BlazeVOX Books, Buffalo, N.Y., 2015)
Reviewed by Thomas Hibbard for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015
Reviewed by Allen Bramhall in Mandala Web, June 8, 2015.
OTHER REVIEWS are available through the author's website

SUN STIGMATA (Sculpture Poems) by Eileen R. Tabios (Marsh Hawk Press, New York, 2014)
Reviewed by Joey Madia for New Mystics Review, Jan. 2, 2015
OTHER REVIEWS are available through the author's website

44 RESURRECTIONS by Eileen R. Tabios (PostModern Poetry E-Ratio Editions, 2014)
Reviewed by Neal Leadbeater for Our Own Voice, January 2015
OTHER REVIEWS are available through the author's website

147 Million Orphans (MMXI-MML) by Eileen R. Tabios (gradient books, Finland, 2014)
Author's Preface in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015
Reviewed by Michael Leong for Stalactite Chandelier, Sept. 1, 2014
OTHER REVIEWS are available at the author's website

THE AWAKENING: A Long Poem Triptych & A Poetics Fragment by Eileen R. Tabios (theenk Books, New York, 2013)
Reviewed by Aileen Ibardaloza for Our Own Voice, June 2013
OTHER REVIEWS are available through the author's website

the relational elations OF ORPHANED ALGEBRA by Eileen R. Tabios & j/j hastain (Marsh Hawk Press, New York, 2012)
Reviewed by T.C. Marshall for Galatea Resurrects #20, May 2013
Reviewed by Susan Schultz for Jacket2, April 2012
Reviewed by Edric Mesmer for Yellow Field 6, 2013
OTHER REVIEWS are available through the author's website


THE THORN ROSARY: Selected Prose Poems and New (1998-2010) by Eileen R. Tabios (Marsh Hawk Press, New York, 2010)
Thomas Fink's Editor's Introduction in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015
Reviewed by Aileen Ibardaloza for LITTER Magazine, 2010
Afterword engagement by Joi Barrios, reprinted in Our Own Voice, April 2010
OTHER REVIEWS are available through the author's website

FOOTNOTES TO ALGEBRA: Uncollected Poems 1995-2009 by Eileen R. Tabios (BlazeVOX, New York, 2009)
Reviewed by Chris Mansel for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #2, February 2016
Reviewed by Thomas Fink for Our Own Voice, January 2015
Reviewed by Stephen Hong Sohn for Asian American Literature Fans, June 2011
OTHER REVIEWS are available through the author's website

NOTA BENE EISWEIN by Eileen R. Tabios (ahadada books, Tokyo & Toronto, 2009)
Reviewed by Grace C. Ocasio for Jacket #37, 2009
OTHER REVIEWS are available through the author's website

THE LIGHT SANG AS IT LEFT YOUR EYES: Our Autobiography by Eileen R. Tabios (Marsh Hawk Press, New York, 2007)
Reviewed by Nicholas T. Manning for Cordite Review, October 2007
Reviewed by Fred Muratori for American Book Review, Sept.-Oct., 2008
OTHER REVIEWS are available through the author's website

SILENCES: The Autobiography of Loss by Eileen R. Tabios (Blue Lion Books, Espoo, Finland / West Hartford, Conn., 2007)
Reviewed by Thomas Fink for Otoliths, February 2008
OTHER REVIEWS are available through the author's website

Dredging for Atlantis by Eileen R. Tabios (Otoliths, Australia, 2006)
Reviewed by Jeffrey Wright for The Brooklyn Rail, Sept. 4, 2007
OTHER REVIEWS are available through the author's website

The Secret Lives of Punctuations, Vol. I by Eileen R. Tabios (xPress(ed), Finland, 2006)
Leny Mendoza Strobel's Afterword in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015
Eileen R. Tabios's Author's Note in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015
Reviewed by Thomas Fink for Jacket, October 2006
OTHER REVIEWS are available through the author's website

I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED by Eileen R. Tabios (Marsh Hawk Press, New York, 2004)
Reviewed by Anny Ballardini for Jacket, 2008
Reviewed by Thomas Fink for BOOKMARK, 2008
OTHER REVIEWS are available through the author's website

POST BLING BLING by Eileen R. Tabios (Moria, Chicago, 2005)
Reviewed by Garin Cycholl for RAIN TAXI, Fall 2006
OTHER REVIEWS are available through the author's website

MENAGE A TROIS WITH THE 21st Century by Eileen R. Tabios (xPress(ed), Finland, 2004)

Reviewed by Ric Carfagna for Poetic Inhalation, 2004
Reviewed by Michaela Spangenberg for Our Own Voice, June 2013
Reviewed by Ron Silliman for Ron Silliman Blog, Sept. 22, 2006
OTHER REVIEWS are available through the author's website

REPRODUCTIONS OF THE EMPTY FLAGPOLE by Eileen R. Tabios (Marsh Hawk Press, New York, 2002)
Reviewed by Monica Manolachi for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #2, February 2016
Reviewed by Chris Murray for SENTENCE: A Journal of Prose Poetics, Winter 2004
Reviewed by Leza Lowitz for KQED Radio Pacific Time, 2002/3
OTHER REVIEWS are available through the author's website

ECSTATIC MUTATIONS: Experiments in the Poetry Library, a mixed-genre (poetry/poetics/fiction) collection by Eileen R. Tabios (Giraffe Books, Quezon City, 2000)
Leny Mendoza Strobel's introduction in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015
Engaged by Aloysiusi Polintan in Renaissance of a Notebook, Jan. 21, 2017

Beyond Life Sentences by Eileen R. Tabios (Anvil, Philippines, 1998)
Reviewed by Leny M. Strobel for TOMAS (University of Santo Tomas) and README
OTHER REVIEWS are available through the author's website

OCTOBER LIGHT by Jeff Tagami (Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, 2002)
Reviewed by Barbara Jane Reyes for Pacific Reader, Summer/Fall 2005

FAULT SETTING by Joel Toledo (University of the Philippines Press, Dilliman, 2016)

Reviewed by Aloysiusi Lionel Polintan for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #2, February 2016

The Long Lost Startle by Joel Toledo (University of the Philippines Press, Dilliman, 2009)

Reviewed by Patrick Rosal for Galatea Resurrects #13, December 2009

To the Bone by Angela Narciso Torres (Sundress Publications, 2019)
Reviewed by Gustavo Hernandez for LibroMobile, June 5, 2020

Blood Orange by Angela Narciso Torres (Willow Books, 2013)
Reviewed by Aileen Ibardaloza Cassinetto for #allpinayeverything, Oct. 9, 2018
Reviewed by Urayoan Noel for Harriet/Poetry Foundation, September 2016
Reviewed by Juaniyo Arcellana for The Philippine Star, Dec. 30, 2013

MARCELINA: A meditation on the murder of Cecilia “Celing” Navarro by Jean Vengua (Paloma Press, San Mateo, 2020)
Reviewed by Maileen Hamto, THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #10, November 2020

PRAU by Jean Vengua (Meritage Press, San Francisco & St. Helena, 2007)
Reviewed by Chris Mansel for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #3, August 2016
Reviewed by Allen Gaborro in Philippine News, March 2008
Reviewed by Joey Madia for New Mystics, Jan. 30, 2009
Reviewed by Lee Kottner for Her Circle, April 2008
Reviewed by Brett Duchon for Galatea Resurrects #11, December 2008
Reviewed by Leny M. Strobel for Galatea Resurrects #10, July 2008
Reviewed by John Bloomberg-Rissman for Galatea Resurrects #9, March 2008
OTHER REVIEWS are available through Meritage Press Blog (scroll down)

THE ACHING VICINITIES by Jean Vengua (Otoliths, Australia, 2006)
Reviewed by Ernesto Priego for Galatea Resurrects #3, August 2006

Histories: Poems by Charlie Samuya Veric (AdMU Press, Philippines, 2015)
Reviewed by Aloysiusi Lionel Polintan for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #2, February 2016
Reviewed by Alfred Yuson for The Philippine Star, Sept. 14, 2015

DOVEGLION: Collected Poems by José Garcia Villa, Ed. John Edwin Cowen (Penguin Classics, New York, 2008)
Reviewed by Allen Gaborro for Philippine News, October 3, 2008

THE ANCHORED ANGEL: Selected Writings by José Garcia Villa, Ed. Eileen Tabios (Kaya Production, New York, 1999)
Introduction by Jessica Hagedorn in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015
Reviewed by Abigail Licad for Galatea Resurrects #9, March 2008
Reviewed by Jean Vengua for Pacific Reader Literary Supplement (1999) and Poetry Flash (2001)

Reliquaria by R.A. Villanueva (University of Nebraska Press, 2014)
Reviewed by Kenji Liu for The Rumpus, March 14, 2015
Reviewed by Ron Slate for On the Seawall, Oct. 2, 2015

Sorrows of the Chameleon by Ella Wagemakers (XLibris, 2007)
Reviewed by Alfred Yuson for The Philippine Star, March 3, 2008)

The Highest Hiding Place by Lawrence Ypil (Ateneo, 2009)
Reviewed by Aloysiusi Polintan for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #5, December 2017 

Poems Singkwenta'y Cinco by Alfred A. Yuson (Anvil Publishing, Manila, 2010)

Reviewed by Wilfredo Pascua Sanchez for Philippines Free Press Magazine, April 2010
Reviewed by Juaniyo Arcellana for The Philippine Star, Jan. 4, 2010

Trading in Mermaids by Alfred A. Yuson (Anvil Publishing, Manila, 1993)

Vicente G. Groyon III's Afterword in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015
Reviewed by Paul Sharrad for Scarp 24 (Australia), 1994
Reviewed by Lisa Bower for Galatea Resurrects #11, December 2008

Sea Serpent by Alfred Yuson (Monsoon Press, Philippines, 1980)
Edith Tiempo's introduction in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015



ANTHOLOGIES

THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY edited by Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego and Eileen Tabios (Meritage Press / xPress(ed), San Francisco & St. Helena / Puhos, Finland, 2010)
Co-Editors' Introduction in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015
Reviewed by Chris Mansel in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #3, August 2016
Reviewed by Nicholas T. Spatafora for Galatea Resurrects #16, March 2011
Reviewed by Aileen Ibardaloza for Galatea Resurrects #15, December 2010
OTHER REVIEWS are available through Meritage Press Blog (scroll down)

COMPANIONABLE VOICES: FIVE FILIPINO POETS by Cesar Ruiz Aquino, Recah A. Trinidad, Erwin E. Castillo, Wilfredo Pascua Sanchez and Juan Jose Jolico Cuadra (Quincunx Publishing, Manila, 2013)

Reviewed by Wilfred Pascua Sanchez for Galatea Resurrects #22, June 2014

CROWNS and ORANGES: Works by Young Philippine Poets, edited by Cirilo F. Bautista and Ken Ishikawa (Anvil Publishing, Inc. and Powerbooks, Manila, 2009)
Reviewed by Juaniyo Arcellana for The Philippine Star, Nov. 23, 2009

Salu-Salo: In Conversation with Filipinos: An Anthology of Philippine-Australian Writings edited by Jose Wendell P. Capili and John Cheeseman (Casula Powerhouse & Blacktown Arts Centre, Australia, 2008)

Reviewed by Sheila Bare for Galatea Resurrects #24, May 2015

BABAYLAN: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina-American Writers co-edited by Nick Carbo and Eileen Tabios (Aunt Lute Press, San Francisco, 2000)

Nick Carbo's Editor's Introduction in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015
Eileen R. Tabios' Editor's Introduction in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015
Reviewed by Aileen Ibardaloza for Galatea Resurrects #16, March 2011

PINOY POETICS: A Collection of Autobiographical and Critical Essays on Filipino and Filipino-American Poetics edited by Nick Carbo (Meritage Press, San Francisco & St. Helena, 2004)

Editor's Introduction in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015
Reviewed by Abigail Licad for Galatea Resurrects #1, March 2006
Reviewed by Aileen Ibardaloza for Galatea Resurrects #11, December 2009
Reviewed by Juaniyo Arcellana for The Philippine Star, 2004
OTHER REVIEWS are available through Meritage Press Blog (scroll down)

Returning A Borrowed Tongue edited by Nick Carbó (Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, Minn., 1996)
Reviewed by Neil Leadbeater for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #8, November 2019
Reviewed by Jessica Gonzalez  for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #4, February 2017

KUWENTO: LOST THINGS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF NEW PHILIPPINE MYTHS edited by Rachelle Cruz and Melissa Sipin (Carayan Press, San Francisco, 2015)
Introduced by Dean Francis Alfar
Reviewed by Eileen Ramos for Bored to Death Book Club, April 9, 2015

Under the Storm, edited by Khavn de la Cruz and Joel Toledo (Antithesis Collective, Philippines, 2011)
Reviewed by Juaniyo Arcellana for The Philippine Star, April 30, 2012

THE BOHOL WE LOVE Edited by Marjorie Evasco (Anvil, 2017)
Reviewed by Juaniyo Y. Arcellana for The Philippine Star, June 11, 2017

NO TENDER FENCES edited by Carla Sofia Ferreira, Kim Sousa and Marina Carreira (fundraising anthology for RAICES, 2019)
Reviewed by Cristina Querrer for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #8, November 2019

BROWN RIVER, WHITE OCEAN: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Philippine Literature in English edited by Luis H. Francia (Rutgers University Press, 1993) 
Editor's Introduction in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015

Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images edited by M. Evelina Galang in collaboration with Poetry Editor Eileen Tabios, Non-Fiction Editor Sunaina Maira, Art Editor Jordan Isip and Found Images Editor Anida Yoeu Esguerra (Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, 2003)
Eileen R. Tabios introduces the Poetry Section

FLIPPIN': Filipinos on America co-edited by Eric Gamalinda and Luis H. Francia (Asian American Writers Workshop, New York, 1996)
Eric Gamalinda's Editor's Introduction in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015
Luis H. Francia's Editor's Introduction in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015

STAGE PRESENCE: Conversations with Filipino American Performing Artists edited by Theodore S. Gonzalves (Meritage Press, San Francisco & St. Helena, 2002)
Reviewed by Ron Sagye La Rue for JAZZ NEWS, 2010
Reviewed by Allen Gaborro for Philippine News, May 23-29, 2008
OTHER REVIEWS are available through Meritage Press Blog (scroll down)

Of Color: Poets’ Ways of Making, An Anthology of Essays on Transformative Poetics edited by Amanda Galvan Huynh and Luisa A. Igloria (The Operating System, 2019)
Reviewed by Karen Llagas for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #10, November 2020
Reviewed by Niccolo Rocamora Vitug for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #10, November 2020

Peace Mindanao edited by Jaime An Lim (UST Press, Philippines, 2013)
Preface by Jaime An Lim

FIELD OF MIRRORS: Anthology of Philippine American Writers edited by Edwin Lozada (Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc., San Francisco, 2008)
Editor's Introduction in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015
Reviewed by Patria Rivera in Galatea Resurrects #11, Dec. 16, 2008

The Pilipinx Radical Imagination Reader edited by Melissa-Ann Nievera-Lozano and Anthony Abulencia Santa Ana (Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc., San Francisco, 2018)
Reviewed by Veronica Montes for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #7, December 2018

The Filipino Literature Issue of The Literary Review edited by Bino A. Realuyo (Farleigh Dickinson University, 2007)
Editor's Introduction in  THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015

Nevertheless, #She Persisted edited by Barbara Jane Reyes (Moria Books' Locofo Chaps, 2017)
Engaged by Eileen Tabios for Galatea Resurrects, March 2017

Nests and Strangers: On Asian American Women Poets edited by Timothy Yu with an Afterword by MG Roberts (Kelsey Street Press, Berkeley, 2015)
Reviewed by Melissa R. Sipin for Woodland Pattern Book Center, July 17, 2015

Walang Hiya … literature taking risks toward liberatory practice, edited by Lolan Buhain Sevilla and Roseli Ilano (Carayan Press, San Francisco, 2010)
Co-Editors' Introduction  in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #2, February 2016

BOLD WORDS: A Century of Asian America Writing, edited by Rajini Srikanth and Esther Y. Iwanaga (Rutgers University Press, New Jersey and London, 2001)
Eileen R. Tabios introduction to the poetry section in  THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015

BABAYLAN: Filipinos and the Call of the Indigenous  edited by Leny Mendoza Strobel (Center for Babaylan Studies, Santa Rosa, CA, 2010)
Editor's Introduction in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015

HUMANITY (Vol. 1) edited by Eileen R. Tabios (Paloma Press, San Mateo, 2018)
Reviewed by Marjorie Evasco for Tambara Journal, June 2019

Evidence of Fetus Diversity edited by Eileen R. Tabios (Moria Books/Locofo Chaps, Chicago, 2017)
Reviewed by Aloy Polintan for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #8, November 2019

Reviewed by Neil Leadbeater for Galatea Resurrects, August 2018

Puñeta: Political Pilipinx Poetry edited by Eileen R. Tabios (Moria Books/Locofo Chaps, Chicago, 2017)
Engaged by Eileen R Tabios in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #4, February 2017
Reviewed by Jenny Ortuoste for The Manila Standard, Jan. 29, 2017

VERSES TYPHOON YOLANDA: A Storm of Filipino Poets edited by Eileen R. Tabios (Meritage Press, San Francisco & St. Helena, 2014)
Reviewed by Neil Leadbeater in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #8, November 2019
Leny M. Strobel's Foreword in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015
Reviewed by Mary Kasimor in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #3, August 2016
Eileen R. Tabios' Introduction in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015
Reviewed by Jenny Ortuoste for The Manila Standard, May 22, 2014
Reviewed byMelissa R. Sipin for HYPHEN Magazine, June 26, 2014
Reviewed by Aileen Ibardaloza for Galatea Resurrects #22, June 2014
OTHER REVIEWS are available through its Book Blog


THE HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY, Vol. II edited by Jean Vengua and Mark Young (Meritage Press, San Francisco & St. Helena, 2008)
Reviewed by Allen Bramhall for THE HALO-HALO REVIEW #1, September 2015
Reviewed by Aileen Ibardaloza for Galatea Resurrects #15, December 2010
OTHER REVIEWS are available through Meritage Press Blog (scroll down)

THE FIRST HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY edited by Jean Vengua and Mark Young (Meritage Press, San Francisco & St. Helena, 2005)
Mark Young's Editor's Introduction in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015
Jean Vengua's Editor's Introduction in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015
Crag Hill's Introduction in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015
Reviewed by Annabelle Udo for Filipina Veritas, 2006
Reviewed by Yvonne Hortillo for Galatea Resurrects #1, 2006
OTHER REVIEWS are available through Meritage Press Blog (scroll down)


FATHER POEMS edited by Alfred A. Yuson and Gemino Abad (Anvil Publishing, Manila, 2004)
Alfred A. Yuson's Editor's Introduction in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #1, September 2015



SCHOLARLY STUDIES

Poetry Is: Jose Garcia Villa's Philosophy of Poetry, Edited by Robert L. King (Ateneo de Manila University Press, Quezon City, 2015)
Reviewed by Monica Manolachi in THE HALO-HALO REVIEW's Mangozine #4, February 2017
Reviewed by James Sale for The Society, Nov. 6, 2015 

FILIPINO WOMEN WRITERS IN ENGLISH, THEIR STORY 1905-2002 by Edna Zapanta-Manlapaz (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2003)
Reviewed by Susan Evangelista for Philippine Studies, Second Quarter 2004










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