UP Baguio Instructor Poetry Lecturer

Junley Lazaga of the University of the Philippines in Baguio has accepted Timpuyog dagiti Mannurat iti Iluko iti Filipinas invitation to deliver the lecture on the daniw during the 4th TMI-Global International Iluko Literary Conference at the Philippine Ports Authority Convention Hall at Poro Point, San Fernando City on May 19-20. Participants will write their poems after the lecture and their pieces will be studied and evaluated. The best poems will receive prizes. TMIF has allocated at least 3 hours for the daniw. An Australian Filipino family, originally from Bacarra, Ilocos Norte, has donated money for the contest in the genre. It will be a yearly affair.I wish young Ilokano poets like Mighty Rising, Derick Yabes and MMSU and Divine Word College campus poets will participate in the Salip. For this year, poems published in Timpuyog Journal will be considered for the prizes. Kas maawatak, tallo laeng dagiti major prizes ti maited a gunggona.