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Our resource for the day is the YouTube channel of Canada’s Griffin Poetry Prize, where you’ll find videos of past prize nominees as well as discussions of the art of translation. And now for our optional prompt! Ezra Pound famously said that “poetry is news that stays news.” While we don’t know about that, the news can have a certain poetry to it. Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a…

The rise of ‘Rapid Literature’

EDITORIAL ARTICLE OPINION Mrinali Jadhav, Editor-in-chief at Unverbalise Illustration by Nora Glint for Unverbalise Editorials Literature has always been a medium for people to engage into loud entertainments while staying in a peacefully quite library. Traveling realms and choosing places to stay at, all while staying in one place as the world might see. Literature in it’s various forms…

          An explosion at a night market in Roxas Street, Davao City on Friday night, September 2, killed at least 14 people and injured more than 60 according to Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella.

          An improvised explosive device caused the explosion and the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) has claimed responsibility for the blast. ASG spokesperson Abu Rami said the Davao attack is a "call for unity to all mujahideen in the country" amid the all-out offensive of the military against the group.

          The Davao City explosion has prompted Duterte to declare a state of lawlessness across the Philippines.

           Davao blast may be a diversionary tactic aimed “to ease up the pressure that they [Abu Sayyaff] have been experiencing in Sulu” where government troops have been deploted following the President’s order to “destroy” the group.

            The attack may have been no more than a diversionary move. However, it is no longer an attack against the president but rather, an attack against humanity. Several innocent lives were affected due to the explosion. The bombing was a savage attack on human lives – on our culture of life, and we want swift justice for the victims and their families. It is no longer about the government, the Aquinos nor Marcos, neither is it about origin nor religion, but a crime against humanity, an act of selfishness, hatred and fear.