Author: Andre Aniñon

Andre Aniñon is a poet, teacher, and medical technologist from Amlan, Negros Oriental. His work has appeared in Revolt Magazine, Kathang Haka: Big Book of Fake News, and Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine. He is currently taking up his master’s degree in public health at Silliman University, Dumaguete City.

  • The students are overjoyed

    because it is the last day of the in-house semester the first after a debilitating year online when I was twenty & close to graduating all I wanted was to move out & get a job my diploma was good for at twenty-two all the students ask is Christmas with their families & a future…

  • Lesson in Immunology

    When a foreign pathogen enters the body, the body primes itself for its defense. Three things happen: first, its recognition of the enemy; then, a proliferation of cells; before finally, the attack. Some cells will die after this exchange, but those that remain will remember the pathogen, ready if it ever comes back. Here, the…

  • A friend asks if I’ve been writing

    & I laugh, a small, muffled laugh, unsure if thinking about writing counts as writing. Emptiness is part of the process, I think. Silence, a more sensible response than words. Between grad school requirements, a hundred students, & a crumbling world, how does something so airless & immaterial find its way to demand space?