The 30-Day Poetry Project

I’m doing a series of projects this 2010. Instead of regretting I don’t have much time writing poetry and fiction, I decided to conduct a series of 30-Day challenges where I pursue a project for thirty days straight! The first one would be writing poetry.

I finished BA Political Science from the University of the Philippines, Diliman. But that didn’t stop me from pursuing what was growing to be a love for literature. Before I graduated, I enrolled in a poetry class under Ms. Issy Reyes. If I remember it right, there were only about seven people in the class. I still have a copy of the three (real) poems I’ve written for the class. I wasn’t very happy with my output but hey I got a 1.5 grade. Not bad!

In 2005, I started joining the Ilokano Writers Association of Isabela (GUMIL Isabela), thanks to the invitation of Manong Rodel Ramos. Since then I translated most of my poems to Ilokano and I’ve written mostly in Ilokano. Heck, I think I have even forgotten how to write poetry in English!

This 30-day poetry project in January 2010 starts today, January 7, 2010. I will write one poem a day covering different, but interrelated, topics. These poems will be in Ilokano though. Yet, I will provide English translation for the readers of Penstalker.com.