Reasons why I haven’t fucked in a decade
Because men (mis)assume I must be an uptight bitch who has not seen…
Author: Gretchen Filart
Gretchen is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and essayist from the Philippines, where she embraces life while managing bipolar disorder and ADHD. Her confessional pieces unpack the complexities of grief, healing, motherhood, love, and intersections, garnering recognition from the Greg Grummer Poetry Contest and Navigator's Travel Writing Competition.
COMCO Mundo League of Enterprises brings back the authentic storytelling roots of Blogging, awards winners of Write to Ignite Season 3
Global award-winning communications group COMCO Mundo League of Enterprises has finally concluded “UNMASKED:…
Championing Biodiversity Against The Odds: Environmentalist Celine Murillo, Unmasked
Filipina eco-defender and storyteller Celine Murillo fights for a greener, kinder, more compassionate world – one story at a time.
For a friend mending grief 2,700+ miles away
When you beckoned me through the looking glass, I saw your tornadoed world.Debris orbiting…
Letter #25: Coming home to your pages when I despair
On a manuscript I avoided for months because it reminded me of a person I lost, and returning to it and surprisingly finding light.
6 Mini-Essays for Each Stage of Situationship Grief
Nonfiction piece consisting of 6 interwoven mini-essays from journal entries across 8 months of grieving a friend who was more than a friend.
Questions after you said I died a million times in you
What were you thinking, striking the cleaver into a bitch raised in hell…
In it
There are days you don’t want to fight. Right now I am in…
How I love this world
A finalist for phoebe’s Spring Contest 2023, this is a poem for this world and my kid. Written after Mary Oliver’s In Blackwater Woods.
Meruem and Papa
A poem on parallels between and Hunter X Hunter villain’s tender moments and a biological father’s absence and death
False poetics
An ecopoem about plastic pollution, published on Earth Day on petrichor for its Ecopoetics issue on Earth Day 2023.
Attract versus chase
The right person sees what they’re going to miss before they do. They will do what it takes not to lose it. That’s how mature love is.
Vasana
A small poem for a friend; about pure yearnings, warmth, and the light of memory. First published on The Hooghly Review on April 2023.
Self-eating
A ecopoem on how plastic pollution permeates our lives in unseen and insidious ways – including in what our children imbibe.
I wrote a poem that became a finalist in a US poetry contest. I lost but felt like I won.
On writing a poem for my daughter, it being a finalist in a poetry contest, and it feeling a win even if I didn’t win.
Beauty tip on how to look younger than your real age
When people ask how old I am & I answer, “Almost 40″, it’s typically followed by, “What’s your skincare regimen?” Here’s my secret.