The Carolinian Poet

Meet the Carolinian Poet:  Hannah Riczel Genova is a 17-year-old aspiring artist. She loves to sing, play the violin, sketch, paint, and recently, she's been busy writing poems about a whole range of themes such as love, the search for redemption, and the world's injustices. Inspired by her first-place victory in the most recent "Spoken Word Poetry" competition organized by th

Meet the Carolinian Poet: Hannah is naturally-born artist. She can sing, play the violin, draw, and paint. Also, she often writes poems in her free time. She considers determination, hard work, and perseverance as her main core values. Hannah is very dedicated and passionate about doing any task assigned to her. She always gives her best in everything that she does. COPYRIGHT DISCL

Meet the Carolinian Poet:  Jet Lee Bermudez is from Putik, Zamboanga City. He is an academic scholar. Also, he is the president of UZ-SHS Disaster Readiness Mitigation Reduction. He is an art enthusiast who enjoys pop-indie culture, rap music, musicals, and literature. He loves to join academic competitions such as debate, declamation, and spoken word poetry. COPYRIGHT DISCLAI

Meet the Carolinian Poet: Samuel Perez Mendez was born in Tarlac City. He lived in Qatar for ten years before coming to Cebu. He belongs to the HUMSS-12C. He has a deep appreciation and passion for the arts, even going so far as to have filmmaking as one of his aspirations in life. He deeply believes in the importance of history and journalism in our society and subsequently acknow

Meet the Carolinian Poet: Maria Theresa Lanit is a teacher, a student, a daughter, a sister, a friend, a lover, a wanna-be-poet, and a nature-lover. She writes poetry to express things that she can't fully explain. She is currently teaching Literature and Humanities at Cebu Institute of Technology under the Senior High School Department. She is yet to finish her Master of Arts in L

Meet the Carolinian Poet: Bianca Althea Yap Cisneros is currently a grade 12 Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS) student at the University of San Carlos. She spends her idle time reading Wattpad books or watching YouTube videos. She doesn't have that many skills nor experiences in making poems before but she happened to enjoy it when the subject CW 01 required for creative piece

Meet the Carolinian Poet: Joanne Marisse P. Tan graduated Doctor of Arts in Literature and Communication  at Cebu Normal University and is an alumna of the University of San Carlos through her bachelor's degree in Secondary Education Major in Communication Arts. She was a former coordinator of Sentro ng Wika at Kultura region 7 in USC and was able to publish a transl

Meet the Carolinian Poet: Jennifer is currently pursuing Literary and Cultural Studies at USC. She has been a fellow to UP Cebu Creative Writers Workshop 2014, Elements Camp 2014, Tagik Landasan 2015, CYWS 2019, BATHALAD-Sugbo CWW 2019, WILA's Paglambo Regional CWW 2019 and Katitikan's 1st Cebu Writers' Workshop 2020. She is also a member of BATHALAD-Sugbo. And she is a fellow to t

Meet the Carolinian Poet: Edwina Grace Escobido is a fresh graduate of the Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS) strand at the University of San Carlos. It was during her two years in Senior High School that she rediscovered her passion for writing through the said strand's subjects and academic activities. She also involved herself in news writing contests, some of which she won

Meet the Carolinian Poet: Kristoff Peralta—a disciple of the em dash—completed his undergraduate studies in literature at the University of San Carlos where he graduated with honors. He was the editor-in-chief of Hangtod Literary and Creative Folio in 2017-2018. He also won the best thesis for their study on hybridity in Philippine Speculative Fiction. Currently, he works for a