Lakan Uhay Alegre

Lakan Uhay Dorado Alegre is a Waray of Tacloban City. His works have appeared in local media such as Dagmay, the Literary Journal of the Davao Writers Guild, and Lunop: Haiyan Voices. Currently, he is a BA- Comparative Literature (Philippine in English and in English Translation) junior in UP Diliman, where he continues writing poetry despite struggling with his readings.

  • The Social Semiotics of Our Sensibility: A Filipino Workshop Method Adapted by the 1st Cebu Writers

    Freshly cooked rice partnered with scrambled eggs and utan Bisaya was the first meal I had upon arriving at Ocean View, Oslob. I took a quick nap from my long and tiring travel. My plane landed in Cebu at midnight.  I arrived at the 7 Eleven rendezvous place around 5 A.M. Then I took the…

  • Urban Jungle

    Concrete trees mount this junglethe home of the corporate hoarders and lunchless laborers.Sunlight veils its walls, producing shadows to shade the windowless homes.Traffic symphony signals the roofless residents to wake-up, to look for a new cardboard sleeping bagand to scout another cave for slumber.Elite apes live in concrete treehouseswhile peasant roaches creep the cemented ground.Both live harmoniouslywith…