Mye Mulingtapang

From Tondo to the green hills of Antipolo, Ann van Wijgerden’s life in the Philippines changed the way she understood poetry, nature and belonging. In the final part of The Long Attention, she reflects on the living world behind Dear Planet and the realization that she was never simply an observer.

Filipino writer Jose Dalisay Jr. reflects on fiction, memory and history—and on literature’s power to make the past intimate without confusing imagination with evidence.

Koi Diaz confronts the hidden cost of OFW life—the birthdays missed, marriages tested and families stretched across continents—and asks what it truly takes to provide without losing presence, connection and home.