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Karlo Sevilla [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Quezon City
Philippines
PH
Email: 
karlosilverio.sevilla96@gmail.com
Bio: 

Karlo Sevilla (he/him) of Quezon City, Philippines is a 2024 International Fellow of the International Human Rights Art Movement (IHRAM) for poetry. He is the author of seven poetry books: “Metro Manila Mammal” (Soma Publishing, 2018), “You” (Origami Poems Project, 2017), "Outsourced! . . ." (Revolt Magazine, 2021), "Recumbent" (8Letters Bookstore and Publishing, 2023), "Figuratively: A Chapbook of Shape Poems" (Gorilla Printing, 2024), "Datuterte: Imagined Confession, 2024" (IHRAM, 2024), and "The Boy On the Hill" (IHRAM, 2024). Thrice nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology⁠—by Ariel Chart in 2018, Collective Unrest in 2019, and Woolgathering Review in 2021⁠⁠—his poems were first published in Philippines Free Press in 1998 and Philippines Graphic in 2000.  In the succeeding years, he became considerably less active in writing and submitting poems for publication. Then, in 2014 his passion for poetry was rekindled and in 2015 his poems were published in Pacifiqa and again in Philippines Graphic. Hence, he has almost 300 poems published in various literary magazines, anthologies, and other platforms worldwide. In 2020, he was one of the contributors to "Pandemic: A Community Poem," which was nominated by Muse-Pie Press for that year's Pushcart Prize. He belonged to the first batch of students (school year 2018) of the Creative Writing in Filipino program of the Center for Creative Writing of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, and is a member of the Rat's Ass Review online poetry workshop. He also coaches wrestling and Brazilian Luta Livre, and won a gold medal in the 2016 ADCC Southeast Asia – Philippine International Submission Fighting Open and in the Greco-Roman wrestling event of the 2011 Philippine National Games.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
Filipino/Tagalog
Favorite authors: 
Henrie Diosa Jimenez, Kadi Serafica, Kari Astillero, Karl R. de Mesa, Alma Anonas-Carpio, Rene Boy E. Abiva, Gretchen Filart, Greg Bituin, Marco Llanes, Luisa Igloria, Kristine Ong Muslim, Anne Carly Abad, Glenn Sevilla Mas, Maningning Miclat, Conchitina Cruz, Angela Manalang-Gloria, Merlie M. Alunan, Cirilo F. Bautista, Edel E. Garcellano, José Garcia Villa, César Ruiz Aquino, Charles Bukowski, Joe Pintauro, Anna Akhmatova, Dylan Thomas, Czesław Miłosz, Pablo Neruda, Leonard Cohen, Ocean Vuong, Robert Ronnow, James Tate, Kaveh Akhbar, Sam Sax, Federico García Lorca, Albert Camus, Ferenc Juhász, Patricia Evangelista . . .
Twitter/X: 
@karlosevilla2
Born in: 
Manila
Philippines
Raised in: 
Quezon City
Philippines
Website: 
http://karlosevillaofquezoncity.blogspot… [2]
Prizes won: 
  1. 2024 International Fellow (for poetry) of the International Human Rights Art Movement (IHRAM)
  2. Reader's choice award: Human Rights Online Philippines’ 8th (2018) HR Pinduteros Choice Awards for HR Right-Up
  3. Runner-up, Submittable-Centric Poetry Contest (2018)
  4. Third place, Tanggol Wika's DALITEXT 2018 poetry contest
  5. Poem, "Accidental Book Burning," recognized among The Best of Kitaab 2018
  6. "Dead Drunk in Vientiane & Other Poems," listed among Eastlit 2016 Popular Asiatic Literature
  7. Poem, "White Cloud," shortlisted for the 2021 Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition
  8. Poem, "Dear Aesthete, This Could Turn Deadly,"  shortlisted for the 2023 Creators of Justice Literary Award (International Human Rights Art Movement) 
What I'm reading now: 
AKO AT ANG PANAHON ATBPNG HINDI MA-CHIKA SA PERSONAL by Al Joseph A. Lumen
Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista
The Awakening: Volume One of Alamat, A History of the Awakened by Kadi Serafica
Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista
Identifies as: 
Filipino
Prefers to work with: 
Parents

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[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/karlo_sevilla [2] http://karlosevillaofquezoncity.blogspot.com/2016/10/s-list-of-published-poems-all-with-links.html