@merrygeese.bsky.social
🌞 Earth love. Family maven. 🇵🇭 Poet, writer, manunulat. Kidlit. Intergenerational stories. 🌏 Banyan: Asian American Writers Collective founder & organizer. 🌊 Big laughs and fiesty puppies. 💛 http://www.mgbertulfo.com/
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Luisa A. Igloria’s Chicago Book Launch Weekend is around the corner! Things to do: ✅Decide if you’re attending Fri or Sat (or both!) ✅ Register for Friday at Women & Children First Books. ✅ Pre-order CAULBEARER. See you soon!
Countdown: Two weeks until Luisa A. Igloria Weekend! And, lucky me, I get to interview her twice. @thepoetslizard.bsky.social
30.03.2025 02:06 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A book launch announcement for Luisa A. Igloria’s new book of poetry CAULBEARER. She’ll be in conversation with me, M.G. Bertulfo. A collage of the book cover, Luisa, and myself. The cover: a ponderous person behind an iron gate. Luisa: sideview of a Filipina with a bob. Me: smiling, wearing glasses, next to a tree. The vibe: nostalgic, earthy, with nods to Philippine history.
Four weeks til I’m in conversation with Luisa A. Igloria @thepoetslizard.bsky.social at Chicago’s legendary Women and Children First Books. Celebrate the launch of CAULBEARER, Luisa’s new poetry collection. April 11, 7 pm. Register for our free event. www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-rea... #booksky
14.03.2025 21:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Return of the Sandhill #Cranes. #nature #birding #intersectionalenvironmentalism
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Picture of a tray of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies on white parchment paper. The cookies are different sizes. The scent of toasted oatmeal, vanilla, cinnamon, and butter. The vibe: Cozy cheery baking with my fav preschooler!
Yesterday’s #JOY: I baked chocolate chip cookies with my 3YO nephew, HappyFeet. Three is my fav preschool age. “Oooh! The sugar’s melting!” Can you taste the sea salt? A lil something for everyone.
25.02.2025 18:22 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Photo of me, a Filipina woman wearing a grape-colored fleece hoodie, holding a book called CONNIE, A Memoir which is about the first Asian American news anchor Connie Chung. She has the iconic Asian bob hair-cut that went with her legendary reporting. The vibe: Me, happy and ready to get cozy with a good read, thrilled to learn more about a personal hero.
A photo of four books arranged in a sort of diamond pattern, cover-sides up. The books are: Connie, A Memoir, Over and Under Wetland (a picture book) by Kate Messner with art by Christopher Silas Neal, The Restaurant of Lost Recipes by Hisashi Kashiwai (translated by Jesse Kirkwood), and SNOW a middle grade novel by Meeta Trehan. Vibe: a boodle of new books from an indie bookshop ready to be loved. A bookmark sticks out of one book and says, Dandelion Bookshop.
Making my way through my mini #TBR pile from Dandelion Bookshop. I love #Reading and #writing across generations. #booksky
25.02.2025 18:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Seriously. She’s amazing!
21.02.2025 03:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How Black communities are powering meaningful climate action - Capital B - This.
20.02.2025 17:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0You’re welcome. I needed it, too!
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Discerning Your Calling: Richard Wright and the Price of Eggs
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Photo of a book cover. The novel STATE OF WAR by Ninotchka Rosca. Soft pastel drawing of a Filipina doña sitting on a highback chair, a masked guerilla fighter who has bullets strapped across his chest, and a young woman in jeans and a white tee-shirt looks out the window of a bahay kubo/nipa cottage. In the distance, a volcano. The moon leaves a firey trail across the sky. Orchids, mangoes, a tropical vine, a pineapple and fruits surround the 3 characters. The vibe: dreamy, the portent of violence amid a lush existence.
20/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge #writing #Philippines
14.02.2025 18:54 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations to all the winners and honorees of the @apalaweb.org literature awards!! Take a look at the awardees and maybe get a copy of the books! www.apalaweb.org/2025-asian-p... #LLX2024
27.01.2025 23:57 — 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A reminder...The deadline is only a few days away.
If you know an APALA member who embodies Gayatri Singh's values, send an application in today!
Exactly what is needed right now: vision. SEEDS, gorgeous theme, vibrant kin.
14.02.2025 18:18 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A shaggy brown and white roan labradoodle rolls on her back chomping a stick. Golden yellow maple leaves are scattered on the gravelly ground. The vibe: Joy!
While Human People are burning things down, the Dog People explode with JOY chomping on whatever sticks they happen to find on their morning walks. Here’s our #puppy, Shenanigans. My fav kind of shenanigans.
14.02.2025 17:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s so classic. I may need to re-read, too!
14.02.2025 14:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Indigenous Nations Mobilize Against ICE Targeting and Profiling.
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(1/2) Image reads: Are you a Los Angeles author or Illustrator? We're soliciting submissions for an anthology of children's comics to support the fire relief efforts.
13.02.2025 23:36 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Know your rights. It’s working.
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An orange promotional graphic decorated with strings of fairy lights from top to bottom. At the center of the graphic is a white circle containing the title “Twenty-Five 2025 Releases Written by Black Authors.”
In the spirit of celebrating and uplifting Black futures this #BlackHistoryMonth, here are 25 book releases from Black authors to look forward to in 2025!
Perfect to add to your TBR so you can enjoy exciting new works by Black authors all year round 📚
Keep going. #BookSky
13.02.2025 20:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
19/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge #Writing
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While things fall apart, while forces of destruction are acting like boogeymen, what are we building? How are we taking care of one another? The next revolution is unparalleled, collective, self-less love. Rest. And rise.
12.02.2025 17:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
18/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge #Writing #BlackSky
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17/20 #BookSky #BookChallenge #Writing
11.02.2025 18:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They’re only getting faster 😂
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