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Literary Reading

Pinoy Word Expressed Kultura Arts

presents

FILIPINO POETRY & LITERARY OPEN MIC 

The 2025 Pagdiriwang Festival Literary Reading

Seattle Center

Saturday, May 31, 2025

2:30 to 4:00 PM

TROY OSAKI

Troy Osaki is a Filipino Japanese poet, attorney, and board member of the Filipino Community Health Board. A three-time grand slam poetry champion, he served as the 2023-2024 Filipino Community Liaison for 4Culture’s Poetry in Public Program where he promoted community-based poetry on King County transit. Born and raised in Seattle, his family roots are from Bataan and the Ilocos region.

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ROBERT FRANCIS FLOR

Robert Francis Flor, PhD is a Seattle native raised in the city’s Central Area and Rainier Valley. His poems appeared in the Soundings Review, Raven Chronicles, Four Cornered Universe, 4 and 20 Journal, the Wanderlust Journal, the Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry Review, the Baseball Bard, Poets Against the War, the Seattle Post Intelligencer and Poetry on the Bus (2014).  His poems have been published in the anthologies “Field of Mirrors”, PAWA, Inc. (2008), “Voices of the Asian American Experience” by the University of Santa Cruz  (2012) and “Where Are You From?” Thymos Book Project, Portland, Oregon (2012). His chapbook “Alaskero Memories”, Caryan Press was published in 2016.

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