Poets

Edwin M. Cordevilla, born on September 30,1967, is a poet based in the Philippines. He is the author of 'Phoenix and Other Poems, ' published in 2000, and 'The Occasions of Air, Fire, Water, Earth, ' his second book of poems published in 2012.

Cordevilla has performed some of the poems in the second collection at the Café Georgio in Makati City; the Far Eastern University Auditorium; Kapitan Moy Museum in Marikina City; at the Inner Sanctum Bar in Intramuros, Manila; at the Abelardo Hall and Bahay Kalinaw, both at the University of the Philippines-Diliman in Quezon City; at the Green Papaya Art Gallery in Quezon City; at the (defunct) Republic of Malate Bar; and at Penguin Café Gallery also in Malate, Manila.

During its diamond foundation anniversary celebrations in 2004, the Far Eastern University included Cordevilla in her Hall of Fame for Literature and Journalism. He is a member of the Philippine Center of International PEN (Poets, Essayists, and Novelists) .

In the introductions of three books on Philippine literary history and literary criticism, namely, The Likhaan Anthology of Philippine Literature in English from 1900 to the Present (University of the Philippines Press,1998) : A Habit of Shores: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English,60’s to the 90’s (University of the Philippines Press,1999) : and The Critical Villa: Essays in Literary Criticism (Ateneo de Manila University Press,2002) , Cordevilla is viewed as the last of the Filipino Romantic poe..