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| This is my cousin, Kema, in Batanes, Philippines. Enter here to browse through poetry - two chapbooks, a spoken word album, and anthologies. |
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| The hip-hop group, NYFP (New York's Finest Pinoys), pose on Madison Avenue after a performance in 2007. Listen to a radio report on WNYC. |
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| The train depot in Junta, Colorado in between thunderstorms. See more photographs from travels and reporting here. |
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 "Pornography Bill Stirs Controversy in Indonesia," World Politics Review, 9/29/2008. Jakarta, Indonesia-- Close to 16 million Indonesians are expected to leave the country's cities this week in a mass exodus to their hometowns in order to celebrate Idul Fitri and the end of the Ramadan month. But this year, they will be hitting the roads as a broad national debate over a controversial anti-pornography bill continues to rage from the local communities of Bali to the streets of Jakarta.... READ MORE --> |
"The House Where Polka Lives," The New York Times, 8/9/2008. New York, NY-- WALTER PROCANYN, a 69-year-old widower with a round face and closely cropped white hair, swiveled around in a blue office chair in the basement of his Woodside, Queens, house and bellowed into a microphone. “Swinging, baby,” he exclaimed as he slapped a knee. “Per-fecto!” .... READ MORE --> |
"Groups Focus on Coral Triangle to Preserve Tuna," The Jakarta Post, 11/11/2008- Jakarta Indonesia-- The region that produces nearly 90 percent of the world's tuna catch is under serious threat due to overfishing and deteriorating environmental factors.... READ MORE --> |
| "Relatives 'amazed' by teen's crime spree," The Miami Herald, 11/5/2007- NEW YORK -- Family and friends gathered Sunday at a funeral home in the Bronx to remember Eric Rosado, the 14-year-old shot and killed while robbing a South Miami-Dade grocery store last week. Many wondered why the teen, who moved to South Florida in 2005 and returned home to be buried, had suddenly gone astray.... READ MORE --> |
"Still Fighting: ," Hyphen Magazine, 11/5/2007- NEW YORK -- A small group of Filipino World War II veterans from Queens, NY continues the decades-long battle for benefits. READ MORE -->
(Photo by Ka-man Tse) |
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"An Uneasy Partnership: Private Tutoring in Public Schools," School Stories, 5/2007 - NEW YORK -- Maria Rodriguez twisted in her seat and shut her eyes, waiting for her school-mandated tutor to return her quiz.
The junior at Manhattan International High School had expected to fail.
“I don’t like math,” said Maria, 17, whose quick smiles in the hallways frequently vanished into worried frowns once inside the classroom.
Rodriguez looked at the score. By just two points, she had passed. Maria flipped through the pages peaking at her mistakes, asking for help from her tutor, who is also her school math teacher—the best possible combination, as far as Maria was concerned. READ MORE --> |
| "Caregiver’s Death Leaves Questions," The Bronx Beat, 5/2007 - NEW YORK -- Just two days after arriving at John F. Kennedy airport from Manila, Gabriel Garcia stood a few feet from his mother's casket in a funeral home in Greenwich Village, his face twisted in grief. The oldest son representing a family thousands of miles away, he rose from the first row, facing a room filled with Filipinos who had come from Queens, New Jersey and the Bronx. The crowd spilled out into the hallway.... READ MORE --> |
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| "Fear Factor: Immigration in Queens," Filipinas Magazine, 5/2007 - NEW YORK -- A 2006 invasion of a home in Elmhurst, Queens, New York by immigration authorities may have been the result of an alleged scam. Now, undocumented immigrants see hope in the immigration bill that will help them on the path to legalization.... READ MORE --> |
2008 Copyright by Dorian Merina. All rights reserved. |
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