A VTY POET BECOMES A POET LAUREATE

Congratulations to Arlene Biala who has been appointed the 2016-2017 Poet Laureate for Santa Clara County, CA. Go HERE for the official announcement which mentions her appearance in Verses Typhoon Yolanda!

LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY WELCOMES VTY!

Verses Typhoon Yolanda will help inaugurate a new Filipino-American Literature section at the Panorama City Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library System!

VTY will inaugurate the section with several of the editor's books as well! Here's the list:

1 - VERSES TYPHOON YOLANDA: A Storm of Filipino Poets edited by Eileen R. Tabios

2 - PINOY POETICS: A Coll. of Autobiographical & Critical Essays on Filipino & Filipino American Poetics edited by Nick Carbo

3 - THE THORN ROSARY: Selected Prose Poems & New (1998-2010) by Eileen R. Tabios

4 - I TAKE THEE, ENGLISH, FOR MY BELOVED by Eileen R. Tabios

5 - DAWAC And Other Memoir-Narratives by Beatriz Tilan Tabios
6 - THE FIRST HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY edited by Jean Vengua and Mark Young
7 - THE HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY, VOL. II edited by Jean Vengua and Mark Young
8 – INVENT(ST)ORY: Selected Catalog Poems & New 1996-2015 by Eileen R. Tabios