Dear Motherland,
I haven’t been home to see you in five years. I used to go home every summer to conduct research, attend conferences, visit friends and family. On my last visit in 2013, something changed. I came away feeling angry, frustrated, and helpless — the traffic, the environmental degradation, the loss of biodiversity, and the giant billboards along EDSA advertising whitening creams and spa treatments — all these made me question a lot of things. But the main question for myself was:


Murder Death Resurrection: A Poetry Generator by Eileen R. Tabios
LENY MENDOZA STROBEL Engages MURDER DEATH RESURRECTION: A Poetry Generator by Eileen R. Tabios (Dos Madres Press, Loveland, OH, 2018) Journaling with MDR Poetry A gift of a Journal. A Poem with over a thousand lines. A gift published as a book: MURDER DEATH RESURRECTION (MDR) by Eileen R. Tabios. Eileen’s promise: You can randomly choose however many lines and put them together to form a new poem. And if the poet is successful, the new poem will be beautiful! In another journ