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Marjorie M. Evasco

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Marjorie M. Evasco traces her literary roots to the island of Bohol where she grew up and completed her undergraduate degree, and to Dumaguete City where she finished her M.A. in Creative Writing at Silliman University in 1982.

A true Bol-anon, she keeps alive the memory and spirit of the revolt first led by Dagohoy's mother, a powerful tambalan (healer), who inspired her son and her people to defy for more than a hundred years the oppressor's rule. As a writer, Marj commits her vision through her poetry, believing that the worthy warrior and healer is necessarily adept at giving voice to the vision so that other may sing it, too.

Marjorie writes in English and Cebuano. Her poetry has appeared in different parts of Asia, Europe and North Amer Marjorie M. Evasco traces her literary roots to the island of Bohol where she grew up and completed her undergraduate degree, and to Dumaguete City where she finished her M.A. in Creative Writing at Silliman University in 1982.

A true Bol-anon, she keeps alive the memory and spirit of the revolt first led by Dagohoy's mother, a powerful tambalan (healer), who inspired her son and her people to defy for more than a hundred years the oppressor's rule. As a writer, Marj commits her vision through her poetry, believing that the worthy warrior and healer is necessarily adept at giving voice to the vision so that other may sing it, too.

Marjorie writes in English and Cebuano. Her poetry has appeared in different parts of Asia, Europe and North America. She had been published in various Philippine magazines and journals, and in Tampa Review, New Straits Times, Manoa and The Evening Paper.

She was a local fellow for poetry at the UP Creative Writing Center in 1986. An associate fellow in the Philippine Literary Arts Council, she is also one of the founders of WICCA, a women's organization. She was featured among writers from Asia-Pacific at the 10th Vancouver International Writers (and Readers) Festival in 1997. During that time she also read her poetry at the inaugural Winnipeg Writers Festival of Manitoba. She was awarded her Ph.D. in Literature in 1998 at De La Salle University.

She has received various awards, among them, a writing fellowship at the International Retreat for Writers in in Hawthornden Castle, Midlothian, Scotland in1991; a travel grant and residency in Bellagio, Italy (Rockefeller Foundation) in 1992; the Palanca Award for the Essay Category in 1983 and 1989; the Philippine Free Press Poetry Prize in 1992. The Mariano Manguerra Foundation of Cebu City chose her Outstanding Writer in the Literary Arts in 1993.

Marjorie Evasco lectures at the De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines. She lives with her daughter Mary Ann and son Marc in a house with a bamboo grove and three cats, who sleep outside her bedroom door at night. ...more

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	Forbidden Fruit: Women Write The Erotic by Tina Cuyugan (Editor), Margarita Go Singco-Holmes (Foreword), Reine Arcache Melvin (Contributor) 4.25 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1992	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dreamweavers: Selected Poems, 1976–1986 4.28 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vital Signs: Philippine Short Stories on Healing by Ronnie E. Baticulon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Marjorie M. Evasco (Editor) 4.28 avg rating — 29 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ochre tones: Poems in English & Cebuano really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 19 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Luna Caledonia: Five Filipino Writers in Hawthornden Castle by Ricardo M. de Ungria (Editor), Rofel G. Brion, Alfred A. Yuson 4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Skin of Water: Selected Poems 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fishes of Light (Peces de Luz): Tanrenga in two tongues by Marjorie M. Evasco, Alex Fleites, Chua Keng Keng (Artist) 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kung Ibig Mo, love poetry by women by Marjorie M. Evasco (Editor), Benilda S. Santos (Editor) 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1993	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A life shaped by music: Andrea Ofilada Veneracion and the Philippine Madgrigal Singers 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The First Five: A New Collection of Southeast Asian Writing by Chan Wai Han (Editor), Angelo R. Cuesta (Contributor), Clara Chow (Contributor) 2.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“This must be the taste of Language—
the tongue mapped by many colors,
parsed by the vowels of memory, the roof
of the mouth the dome of a world
circumscribed by consonants, whose edges
suggest the sour-sweetness of oranges,
the bittermelon’s green rind, the river-
scent of mangoes all the way to the grove.”
― Marjorie M. Evasco, Skin of Water: Selected Poems

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“The dancer...knows it takes
Ten sacred years to learn one gesture
Of the wind’s caress on the skin of water.

Tonight, in the shadows of our dance,
I tell my soul to grow quiet,
Become lake, reflect unbroken moon.
On the deepest part of the lake,
A solitary fisher paddles his oars.
At the shore, a woman in red sarong
Sings: their longing walks on water.”
― Marjorie M. Evasco, Ochre tones: Poems in English & Cebuano

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“There is a season to this ripening,
the way sap of tree rises to fulfill
fruit of the topmost branch,
or the motion of jasmine
climbing trellises to show off
a single blossom to a new moon tide.

...Yes, there is

reason for this ripening.
You are goldened by my tongue.”
― Marjorie M. Evasco, Ochre tones: Poems in English & Cebuano

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