Hagbayon

Hagbayon Old and new works
by poet Jose Jason L. Chancoco

The word “Hagbayon” at the Vocabolario dela lengua bicol. Contact me or the Meta Page of the Ateneo de Naga University P...
14/10/2025

The word “Hagbayon” at the Vocabolario dela lengua bicol.

Contact me or the Meta Page of the Ateneo de Naga University Press for purchases. Or visit AdNU Press at Xavier Hall, AdNU from Monday to Friday, 8am-6pm.

PHONEMICS OF BETRAYAL How atoms and molecules makesyntax and syllable—even sounds.Songs about soul as flowing water on s...
02/10/2025

PHONEMICS OF BETRAYAL

How atoms and molecules make
syntax and syllable—even sounds.
Songs about soul as flowing water
on stones. How surface, shape
and texture tune breath, air, wind.
Words are born when twigs crack
in the fire, or when storms
make trees scream, or when thunders
are giant gods on clouds. Objects
echo prayers, mantra, incantations,
laws, protests. It’s all about faith really,
whether faith on talisman or legal tender
or governance. The same syllables
and syntax as the State bleeds its own tax.

—Jose Jason L. Chancoco

The propeller’s blade Snappy on chopper’s browSalute from the air
20/09/2025

The propeller’s blade
Snappy on chopper’s brow
Salute from the air

Colony of antsWorked hard to afford armor But its weight crushed them
19/09/2025

Colony of ants
Worked hard to afford armor
But its weight crushed them

Sumasagwán ang dibdíb,Nanunukláw ang bisig,Dahil kristál ang isip. Salamat kaibigan sa iyong kaloób!
17/09/2025

Sumasagwán ang dibdíb,
Nanunukláw ang bisig,
Dahil kristál ang isip.

Salamat kaibigan sa iyong kaloób!

Falling like bulletsThe drizzle covered by mistAs the road persists
15/09/2025

Falling like bullets
The drizzle covered by mist
As the road persists

It’s a calm embrace But after the calm the waves Roll with your anger
10/09/2025

It’s a calm embrace
But after the calm the waves
Roll with your anger

Zine zine
07/09/2025

Zine zine

Sansinukob,Paano kang kinuyóm at sa dibdíb, nilukób;Matapos tabíng-dagat ay sinuyod, dinakot?
06/09/2025

Sansinukob,
Paano kang kinuyóm at sa dibdíb, nilukób;
Matapos tabíng-dagat ay sinuyod, dinakot?

MOTORSIKLONG LIÍT, HUMIRIT Trak at bus: Kuya’t tito,Ang bunsông motorsiklo’yPagbigyán namán ninyó.Luluwág ang trapiko!
06/09/2025

MOTORSIKLONG LIÍT, HUMIRIT

Trak at bus: Kuya’t tito,
Ang bunsông motorsiklo’y
Pagbigyán namán ninyó.
Luluwág ang trapiko!

If you are jaded enough. Mayor Vico's thoughts came to mind. We are all guilty of this culture of corruption unless we c...
29/08/2025

If you are jaded enough.

Mayor Vico's thoughts came to mind. We are all guilty of this culture of corruption unless we change. Unless we become the "aninipot," the fireflies that give light.

I was honestly thinking if what we write matters. Corruption begets corruption and thieves don't read (yet we believe their pretensions). The Courts won't act unless its jurisdiction invoked and a case based on actual controversy is filed. And cases sometimes take generations before they get ruled upon. While the crocs and crooks remain in comfort as communities drown.

But the most powerful literary genre, theater, takes a short cut always. For it hits all of us in the audience. So we become the change we always wanted. This I hope.

Tagubhang at the Bicoliana section. Got to visit CBSUA-Pili (Central Bicol State University of Agriculture-Pili) again a...
28/08/2025

Tagubhang at the Bicoliana section.

Got to visit CBSUA-Pili (Central Bicol State University of Agriculture-Pili) again after quite some time. I used to frequent the campus before because of some writer-friends, more so when the Juliana Arejola-Fajardo Workshop for Bikol Writing was held there in 2006. I also became a frequent visitor just to enjoy performances there. Even gave some talks on writing, judged a few literary contests and band battles (and oh, the first out of town gig of my highschool rock band Voodoo Child was held there!)

But this post is not about me, it’s about the latest book of Lourdes Lobis-Nieva, “Tagubhang” (NCCA, 2025). The book is a welcome addition to our growing pool of Bikol-based literary theories. You have to read the book to get your dose of “eureka” for the day.

The Bicoliana section of the University was also inaugurated. Keynote speaker Manoy Jun Balde also donated some books to the library. It was great that he left the softcopy of his lecture for the students and teachers there. Performances were rendered by “Tigsik Queen” Manay Aida Cirujales and thespian Manay Eilyn Nidea.

Me, I was just happy to be there after being frequently absent in local literary “ganaps” in recent years.

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