Tuesday, June 12, 2007

CONGRATS FRANK!


Frank Penones is coming home and he has this good news for us.

PEŃONES GETS SEN. PHELAN LITERARY
AWARDS


Philippine poet Frank Penones Jr. recently received a
James D. Phelan Literary Awards from the San Jose
State University in California where he is an
International Ford Foundation Fellow taking up Master
of Fine Arts in Creative Writing.

Penones won for his two poems in English: Manhattan
Stories, which recalls his visit to New York City in
December last year to see old time friend and fellow
poet, Luis Cabalquinto; and Cracking Coconuts, an
interior monologue of a cool and highly- placed
mercenary.

The Phelan Literary Awards is named after former U.S
Democratic Senator James D. Phelan who represented
California from 1915 to 1921. He also served as San
Francisco city mayor from 1897 until 1902, the
youngest to have been elected to the post in the
city's history. He willed his estate for the support
of artists and writers in California.

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