At 4 p.m. tomorrow, March 14, Dr. Ophelia A. Dimalanta, director of the UST Center for Creative Writing & Studies, supervises the launch of TOMAS 10, a special issue of the university’s literary journal, edited by yours truly, with illustrations by my buddy Igan D’Bayan.

Readings will be done by the Thomasians represented in the distinctive anthology of poetry: Lourd de Veyra, Ricci Guevara, Allan Pastrana, Carlomar Daoana, Anna Bernaldo, Natasha Gamalinda, Gelo Suarez and Joseph Saguid. Four other UST alumni whose poems are featured in TOMAS 10 — together with those of a dozen poets from South Africa, Kenya, India, Tibet, Holland, England and the U.S. — are current expatriates: Eric Gamalinda, Bino Realuyo, Merlinda Bobis and Wendell Capili.