TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Typhoon Haiyan: Basketball in the Midst of Haiyan Ruins

Monday, December 9, 2013

Typhoon Haiyan: Basketball in the Midst of Haiyan Ruins

BASKETBALL IN THE MIDST OF HAIYAN/YOLANDA RUINS

We had moves we didn’t know
We had. Our bodies spun
On swivels of bone & faith,
Through a lyric slipknot
Of joy, & we knew we were
Beautiful & dangerous.
(From Slam, Dunk, & Hook by Yusef Komunyakaa)
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Guest Blogger Luisa Igloria's "How Is it Possible to Think of Literature in Times of Calamity"
Luisa Igloria's Poems on Haiyan
Childhood in the path of typhoons
Jews in the Philippines - 1940 and 2013
Northern Cebu still needs help
Filipino filmmaker Peque Gallaga rants against Philippine Officials
The Anderson Cooper, Korina Sanchez, President Aquino Debacle

This is all for now,
Cecilia

tags: Philippines, typhoon, supertyphoon, Haiyan, Yolanda, basketball, sports

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.