Books Translated
Glossolalia, by Marlon Hacla
With an introduction by Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III
forthcoming 2023 from Ugly Duckling Presse
ISBN 978-1-946604-01-9
Brooklyn, NY
Is There Rush Hour in a Third World Country?, by Rogelio Braga
With an introduction by Eric Abalajon
Cover art by Rayji de Guia
The 87 Press, November 2022
Morden/Sutton, South London, UK
>> Reviewed in Asymptote, Litro Magazine, The Gazelle
Hollow, by Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles
With an introduction by Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III
Fernwood Press, February 2022
ISBN: 9781594980794
Newberg, Ohio
>> Read Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III's introduction to Hollow at the Asian Books Blog
There Are Angels Walking the Fields, by Marlon Hacla
With an introduction by Tilde Acuña
Broken Sleep Books, November 2021
ISBN: 978-1-913642-88-4
Cornwall, UK
>> Reviewed in Asymptote, Tears in the Fence
Pesoa, by Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles
With an introduction by Carlos M. Piocos III
Balangay Productions, 2021
Manila, Philippines
>> Reviewed in in lieu of a field guide
>> Read an excerpt from Pesoa in Asymptote.
Twelve Clay Birds: Selected Poems, by Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles
With an introduction by Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III
Cover design by Mara Rivera
University of the Philippines Press, November 2021
Manila, Philippines
Melismas, by Marlon Hacla
Oomph Press, 2020
Illustrated by Tilde Acuña
With an introduction by Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III
Cover art by Tilde Acuña
Cover design and interior layout by Laura Theobald
Buenos Aires, Argentina
>> Reviewed in Sinking City, Rhino Poetry, in lieu of a field guide, Rougarou, Ligeia Magazine
>> Read "Note on Translation" at The Chattahoochee Review
Three Books, by Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles
Illustrated by Erika M. Carreon
Broken Sleep Books, September 2020
ISBN: 9798608568466
Cornwall, UK
>> Reviewed in Review 31, Loch Raven Review, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, The Sock Drawer
Three Books, by Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles
Illustrated by Erika M. Carreon
Broken Sleep Books, September 2020
ISBN: 9798608568466
Cornwall, UK
>> Reviewed in Review 31, Loch Raven Review, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, The Sock Drawer
Walang Halong Biro, by Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles
Cover art by Christian Tablazon
Cover design by Ruzzel Valdepeña
De La Salle University Publishing House, November 2018
ISBN 978-971-555-663-7
Manila, Philippines
>> Reviewed in in lieu of a field guide, After the Pause
IN-PROGRESS TRANSLATIONS
Colon: A Novel - Rogelio Braga (to be published by the 87 Press)
Book of the Damned: A Novel - Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III
Asinkrono: A Novel - Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles
Feral - Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles
Sequential Songs - Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles
Invention of Illusion - M.J. Cagumbay Tumamac
Io - Janine Go Dimaranan
Mulligan - Marchiesal Bustamante
Representative Translations Published in Anthologies, Journals, and Magazines
AMADO ANTHONY G. MENDOZA III
- "Toward a General Theory of Matter Existing Between Death and Literature" - ANMLY #32: "Neighbor Species and Shared Futures," May 2021 (Anomalous Press, USA)
- "from Book of the Damned" - World Literature Today, August 9, 2022 (University of Oklahoma, USA)
MARLON HACLA
from Melismas (2016)
- Ganga Review (Lalitamba): A Journal of International Writings for Liberation, 2022 (Chintamani Books, USA)
- POETRY Magazine, April 2021 (USA)
- Reckoning: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice 5, January 2021 (USA)
- North Dakota Quarterly 87.3/4, Fall/Winter 2020 (University of Nebraska Press, USA)
- Monday Night, issue 22, Fall 2020 (Monday Night Press, USA)
- Sou'wester, Fall 2019/Spring 2020 (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA)
- Timber, March 2020 (University of Colorado - Boulder, USA)
- LIT Magazine, March 2020 (The New School, USA)
- Bat City Review, issue 16, Spring 2020 (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
- The Columbia Review, volume 100, issue no. 3, Fall 2019 (Columbia University, USA)
- The Bosphorus Review of Books, November 2019 (Turkey)
- Words Without Borders, November 2019 (USA)
- "My Beloved Felipa," "My Beloved Francesca," "My Beloved Teresa," "My Beloved Hilda" - Another Chicago Magazine, September 23, 2o2o (USA)
- "My Beloved Ysabel" - Nashville Review 32, August 2020 (Vanderbilt University, USA)
- "Offering," "The Tryst," "Diorama #1," "Spoliarium, Juan Luna" - South Dakota Review volume 56, no. 3, 2022 (University of South Dakota, USA)
- "Autobiography as a Cricket," "Words Happened" - Nat. Brut issue 15, Fall 2021 (USA)
- "The Siblings" - The Puritan issue 54, Summer 2021 (Canada)
- "Miniatures" - Prairie Schooner, volume 94, number 4, Winter 2020 (University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA)
- "De sterrennacht, Vincent van Gogh," "The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali" - Contemporary Verse 2, volume 43, number 4, Spring 2021 (Canada)
- "Diorama #54" - Salt Hill 45, Spring 2021
- "Bluebush" - Dadiangas Review, issue 1, July 2020
- "The Playground," "The World According to Shomei Tomatsu" - AzonaL 1, July 2020 (USA)
- "The Escape," "Ivory," "Bundle" - The Chattahoochee Review, Spring 2020 (Georgia State University - Perimeter College, USA)
- "Compass," "String" - Meniscus, volume 8, issue 1, 2020 (Australia)
- "Invocation" - Palette Poetry, May 2020 (USA)
- "This Creature" - The Cincinnati Review, March 2020 (University of Cincinnati, USA)
- "Wild," "The Box," "Moto Perpetuo" - Conjunctions, March 2020 (Bard College, USA)
- "Tunnel" - Shenandoah, volume 69, number 2, Spring 2020 (Washington and Lee University, USA)
- "View" - Words Without Borders, February 2020 (USA)
M.J. CAGUMBAY TUMAMAC
- "Origin" - The Margins, March 2023 (USA)
- "General Santos City is part fire," "Zero" - ANMLY 35: "Contemporary Philippine Literature in Translation," September 2022 (Anomalous Press, USA)
- "The dictionary has many words for disjointed" - Qwerty Magazine 42, February 2021 (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
- "Fire," "Busaw" - Off the Coast, Winter 2020 (USA)
- "Flying Fish" - AzonaL, July 2020 (USA)
- "A Planned Brief Documentary on a Teenage Boy in a Badjao Village" - Words Without Borders, November 2019 (USA)
TILDE ACUÑA
- "Two Birds: A Conversation" - Oomph!: Contemporary Works (Vol. 3): A Multilingual Anthology, 2022 (Oomph Press, Argentina)
- "Welcome," "Jerryrigged Machine," "Interplanetary" - Dadiangas Review, issue 1, July 2020
- "Jerryrigged Machine" - Mekong Review volume 5, issue 19, May 2020 (Australia)
RODA TAJON
- "Inang" - ANMLY 30: "Writings by Filipino Women," August 2020 (Anomalous Press, USA)
- "Mend" - PA-LIWANAG: Writings by Filipinas in Translation (Tilted Axis/Gantala Press, 2020)
ROGELIO BRAGA
- "Fungi" - Ulirát: Best Contemporary Stories in Translation from the Philippines (Gaudy Boy Translates, March 2021)
JOSEPH DE LUNA SAGUID
- "The Musician," "A Reply to a Call to Arms" - Thin Air Magazine, January 19, 2021 (Northern Arizona University, USA)
- "Island," "Drown," "Eclipse" - Thin Air Magazine, January 15, 2021 (Northern Arizona University, USA)
JANSSEN CUNANAN
- "Kamote" - SmokeLong Quarterly 66: Global Flash Series, December 2019
MESÁNDEL VIRTUSIO ARGUELLES
from Sequential Songs | Alinsunurang Awit (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2010)
- Swamp Ape Review, forthcoming 2022 (Florida Atlantic University, USA): "Song of Light"
- Swamp Ape Review, forthcoming 2022 (Florida Atlantic University, USA): "Spring," "Talisman"
- Copper Nickel 31/32, Fall 2020 (University of Colorado - Denver/Milkweed Editions, USA): "Doppelgänger," "Cul-de-sac," "Body Bag"
- Indiana Review 42.1, Summer 2020 (Indiana University, USA): "Carillon"
- armarolla, Issue V, Summer 2020 (Nicosia, Cyprus/Prague, Czech Republic): "Layón"
- Speculative Masculinities (Glasgow, UK: Galli Books, forthcoming): “Fiat Homo”
- Words without Borders, November 2019 (USA): "Juggler"
- Bellingham Review volume XLII, issue 78, Spring 2019 (Western Washington University, USA): “Letting Go”
- The Silent Garden: A Journal of Esoteric Fabulism (Canada: Undertow Books, 2018): “Contortionist,” “Deposition of Darkness”
- Samovar issue 26, March 2018 (USA): “Feral”
- From the Fishouse, December 2016 (USA): “Vesper,” “In the Ossuary”
- Waxwing Literary Journal, issue VIII, Spring 2016 (USA)
- River River Literary Journal issue 3, Spring 2016 (USA)
- The Adirondack Review, Fall 2015 (Black Lawrence Press, USA)
- armarolla, Issue V, Summer 2020 (Nicosia, Cyprus/Prague, Czech Republic): "Summer"
- Poetry at Sangam, August 2018 (India): “Lesson in History”
- [sic] – a Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation, no. 1 - Year 8, December 2017 (University of Zadar, Croatia): “Fourteen Pictures”
- Construction Magazine, Winter 2016 (USA): “Vocabulary”
- From the Fishouse, December 2016 (USA): “Box,” “Lesson in History,” “Your Life Will Always Fail”
- Asymptote, July 2016 (Zhongshan, China): “Deep Well”
- Spoon River Poetry Review volume 41, number 1, Summer 2016 (Illinois State University, USA): “Summer”
- Circumference: Poetry in Translation, August 2015 (USA): “Curse”
- The Cossack Review, volume 3, issue 2, Fall 2015 (USA): “Window,” “Greater Than Modern Art”
- The Missing Slate, June 2015 (Low Key/Slate Publications, Pakistan): “Hollow”
- Poetry London 97, September 2020 (UK): "Dogtooth," "Diet of Sex"
- Newfound: An Inquiry of Place 5, January 2019 (USA): “Starlet”
- Glasgow Review of Books, November 2018 (UK): “9 Songs,” “Ai no korīda,” “And They Call It Summer,” “Antares,” “Antichrist,” “Batalla en el cielo,” “Caligula,” “Daisy Diamond,” “Seul contre tous”
- Newfound: An Inquiry of Place vol. no. 9, April 2018 (USA): “Q,” “Shortbus,” “Starlet”
- Empty Mirror, May 2020: "Reptile," "Among the Ruins," "Comrade," "Postscript"
- Transpacific Literary Project: The Margins, "Insurgent Tongues" folio, February 15, 2020: "They Die Those Who Love"
- Cosmonauts Avenue, December 2018: “Letter to a Stranger,” “Letter to a Stranger,” “Letter to a Stranger”
- Kitaab, October 2018 (Kitaab International Pte. Ltd., Singapore): “Hope in Hopelessness,” “Grave,” “On How Silence Can Be Shrill,” “Philosophy,” “Mythology,” “Paradox”
