For those who have been following me on this site, I know I have been guilty of not updating this page for almost a month now. I do apologise for that. Without offering any excuse, I guess I was just pretty well tied up with other web-related projects which included setting up a community blogs at The Filipino Australian Blogs as well as "renovating" and optimising our poetry website plus other myriad of web-related tasks. I will write … [Read more...]
Happy birthday, emanilapoetry!
June 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Did you know that emanilagroup's poetry site, emanilapoetry, turned last Friday? We officially launched the site on 19 June 2005 using a news publishing script which allowed members to post their works using their own password-protected username. In February 2006, we released our first anthology of poems selected from our poetry site. There were 101 poems included in the anthology from 55 contributors. Today, we have more than 10,000 posts … [Read more...]
Revisiting “Sa Kabila Ng Ritmo” book launch
February 2, 2009 By 3 Comments
We published our first anthology of selected poems, Sa Kabila Ng Ritmo (Beyond Rhymes), Mga Piling Tulang ng mga Bagong Makata, some years ago. It was actually in February 2006 when we held the book launch in Greenbelt Park, Makati. During the last weekend (in between championship matches in the Australian Tennis Open ~ yes, I also have a life beyond the web!), I had a rare opportunity to go over our photogallery and see how many of those … [Read more...]
Day after Australia Day, we have a preview of our new poetry site
January 27, 2009 By 5 Comments
Last week-end was a long week-end in Australia. It was Australia Day yesterday, January 26 which thus gave our team a very good opportunity to get together and discuss the progress of our website development work. For myself, I had a quick look at the ongoing design for emanila's Poetry site to see if we can now open the new pages. In its current state, the new site theme is okay to deploy, but I thought we hold it back for another week to fix … [Read more...]
Should we install a rating system in emanilapoetry?
December 24, 2008 By
We are polling Writers Group members to find out if they want to have their poem entries rated. The complete details are found on this page. Click on Yes / No on the poll to have your say. You can also use the Comments box. … [Read more...]
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