Theo Itchon
Ni Theo Itchon ket maysa a mannaniw nga Ilokana, agtataeng kadagiti naranyag a tanap ti Pangasinan. Naipablaak dagiti dandaniwna kadagiti nadumaduma a buddakan, kas koma ti Thimble Lit Magazine, Rat World Magazine, The Cardiff Review, ken dadduma pay.
Theo Itchon is an Ilokano poet living in the ever sunny plains of Pangasinan where she is currently writing her second poetry collection. Her poems have been published in Thimble Lit Magazine, The Cardiff Review, and Rat World Magazine, among others.
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Project Orange
Project Orange is a(n aspiring) monthly newsletter dedicated to my pursuit of feeling at home in myself and in the world. Here I write essays on culture and society, with a fair dash of the personal.
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The Divine Mundane
A collection of fifteen poems meditating on the ways that the luminous divine is present in the everyday. The divine is inextricable from the mundane. They are one and the same thing.
PHYSICAL COPIES ARE AVAILABLE ON-HAND AT:Puón (San Fernando, La Union)
Mt. Cloud (Baguio City)
Tibok Bookstore (Taguig City)
Solidaridad Bookshop (Ermita, Manila)
Spruce Gallery (Pasig City)
Published Poems
2021 - 2023
“What a strange, lovely thing it is to have a body.” bODEy, fifth wheel press, 2023
"My body has secrets, all etched on the spot on my back that I could never quite reach." The Secret Life of My Body, Ligaw Anthology, 2023
"I might just believe in God because of ube; its soft tango with the tang of the keso. It’s too fine a design to be a coincidence." God is a Brown Man, Rat World Magazine, Issue 6, 2023
"Do not speak to the lover you left, not for an apology. He will be waiting there." Godhood in Ten Easy Steps, Right Hand Pointing, Issue 152, 2023
"We’re two empty bodies trying to fill the other." an official apology to khadija, Right Hand Pointing, Issue 152, 2023
"I'm sorry I left you behind" & "My childhood" Five Fleas, 2023
"There is magic in this earth. It lives in pinecones, in the sound of the TV from the next room." Magic Lessons, South Broadway Ghost Society, 2023
"Perhaps when your brother dipped you in the river Styx, he held you by your hand." An Ode to Kaz Brekker's Hands, HaluHalo Journal, Issue 2, 2023
"Perhaps the next instinct after killing for a full belly is to find loving arms to fall into afterwards." The beast in the woods, The Cardiff Review, 2023
"So instead the man looks away because it weighs too much and if he had more to give, he’d lose his liver." Dead Dog, Unbroken, Issue 36, 2023
"This is to small loves, no burning houses, no orchestra. Only love, small as my pinky. I miss them all the same." Small Loves, Eunoia Review, 2022
"I am a wobbly line, the kind you trip over. And worst of all I try to be good and kind, and I fail but I try again." Acknowledgements, Thimble Lit Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2022
"Whistle me a song, and I'll ask you to tango, two reflections, but we were never kind to each other." - I Owe You a Poem, Anak Sastra Issue 46, 2022
"I could take a nap, a cat on its belly my head filled with sweetness cutting through my sour fruits." - Nature Poem, Anak Sastra Issue 46, 2022
"I put my neck, my fingers, and my ankles in keychains, send them to my mother and father. It’s true; part of me always belonged to them anyway." The Funeral, Anak Sastra Issue 46, 2022
"The blades of grass open a mouth, always a form of hunger to be satiated." - Dead Chicken, Katitikan Issue 4, 2021
poetry reading - 2023
18th Tanghal
Organized by Dulaang ELYU and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts at the Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University to celebrate the young creatives and performers of La Union
poetry reading - 2023
Save Baguio Public Market Fundraiser
Organized by Puon Books in the Alfredo Tadiar Library, La Union to raise mutual funds for the victims of the Baguio Public Market fire
panel talk - 2024
Chikahan sa Panitikan
Organized by Likhaan, University of the Philippines Creative Writing Institute to gather queer poets, both emerging and established from the Philippines
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About the Author
Theo Itchon is a writer and educator from the Ilocandia. She is a lover of great paintings, classic literature, silent films, and music of all persuasions. She is currently working on a second book of poetry, as well as a short story collection. She lives in Pangasinan with her cat, Kaz.
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