on friday morning

the big snow storm hit and i had to trudge through the piles of snow to the 6 train to get to hunter college where i was invited to give a lecture on filipino and filipino american poetics to his filipino-american literature class. that was a fulfilling experience talking to the younger generation and telling them the struggle is not over yet, we need to be made more visible, we need to spread our poems and stories and nobody can shut us down!