Sunset View from a

House in Jasaan

-Anthony L. Tan-

Anthony Tan was born on 26th August 1947, Siasi [Muddas], Sulu. His degrees AB English, 1968, MA Creative Writing, 1975, and Ph.D. English Lit., 1982 were all obtained from the Silliman University where he edited Sands and Coral, 1976. For more than a decade, he was a member of the English faculty at SU and regular member of the panel of critics in the Silliman Writers Workshop.

He taught briefly at the DLSU and was

Chair of the English Dept. at MSU-Iligan

Institute of Technology where he continues

to teach. A member of the Iligan Arts

Council, he helps Jaime An Lim and

Christine Godinez-Ortega run the Iligan

Writers Workshop/Literature Teachers

Conference. He also writes fiction and

children's stories.

He has won a number of awards, among

them, the Focus Award for poetry, the

Palanca 1st prize for Poems for Muddas in

1993; also the Palanca for essay. Among

his works are The Badjao Cemetery and

Other Poems, 1985 and Poems

for Muddas, Anvil, 1996.

Sunset View from

a House in Jasaan

-Anthony L. Tan-

His poem is a product of his powerful

mind. As a traveller, he showed his

appreciation of the place-Jasaan through

his poem.

The place reminds him of the melancholy

in life he has been.

Have a good day !