Mark Dimaisip


Mark Dimaisip is a Filipino poet based in Manila. His work includes "Underwater Tongue", selected by Will Harris for the 2021 Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition, "Housekeeping Duties", a horror piece featured in the Southeast Asia Poetry Special of Strange Horizons, and "The Men I Adore", a spoken word piece performed at the poetry slam event of Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (2021).For more information, here's his longer poet bio. Outside poetry, he also designs experiences and he documents it in a blog.


Recent Updates

01.20. New Audio Recording! "Loose Limits" at Bigkas Pilipinas, Episode 59: All the Math in the World12.14. New Poem! "Breaking/Not Breaking", The Saltbush Review, Issue 410.15 Mark illuminates the Philippines spoken word poetry scene, life as a poetry organizer, submitting to international markets, a deep-dive into his poem "Loose Limits," and performance vs. traditional poetry in Conversation with Mark Dimaisip, an author interview with Radon Journal.09.15. New Poem! "Loose Limits", Radon Journal, Issue 508.23 Mark performs "Lessons from Human Anatomy," for Third Thursdays.08.04. Locus Magazine reviews Strange Horizons: Mark Dimaisip details a home defined by superstition and folklore in ‘‘The Untaken’’, where ritual­izing daily life is an attempt to make sense of the fortune, guilt, and fear of those who have sur­vived when others have been taken. Dimaisip shows how that kind of mentality, almost bargaining, works in a world full of hungry shadows.07.31. New Poem! "Everything is Allowed," Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Volume 22 Number 3

About Mark


Mark Dimaisip is a Filipino poet based in Manila. His work includes "Underwater Tongue", a speculative poem selected by Will Harris for the 2021 Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition, and "Housekeeping Duties", a horror piece featured in the Southeast Asia Poetry Special of Strange Horizons. Other recent publications are in Cha, harana poetry, Fantasy, QLRS and Radon Journal.Mark has performed for poetry slams and literary festivals in Southeast Asia and Australia including Filipino ReaderCon (2015), Lit Up Asia-Pacific Festival (2018), Numera World Poetry (2018), and Performatura (2017, 2019). He performed "The Men I Adore" at the hybrid poetry slam event of Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (2021), and "Lessons from Human Anatomy," at Third Thursdays (2023).He has spoken word tracks in Bigkas Pilipinas Vol. 1 & 2, and has organized poetry and open mic shows for Ang Sabi Nila, The Loudmouth Collective and CollaboratoryPH.Born in the Philippines, Mark is a graduate from Ateneo de Manila University, where he studied Communication. He lives with his husband and five potted plants.

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Updates Archive


2024

01.20. New Audio Recording! "Loose Limits" at Bigkas Pilipinas, Episode 59: All the Math in the World


2023

12.14. New Poem! "Breaking/Not Breaking", The Saltbush Review, Issue 410.15 Mark illuminates the Philippines spoken word poetry scene, life as a poetry organizer, submitting to international markets, a deep-dive into his poem "Loose Limits," and performance vs. traditional poetry in Conversation with Mark Dimaisip, an author interview with Radon Journal.09.15. New Poem! "Loose Limits", Radon Journal, Issue 508.23. Mark performs "Lessons from Human Anatomy," for Third Thursdays.08.04. Locus Magazine reviews Strange Horizons: Mark Dimaisip details a home defined by superstition and folklore in ‘‘The Untaken’’, where ritual­izing daily life is an attempt to make sense of the fortune, guilt, and fear of those who have sur­vived when others have been taken. Dimaisip shows how that kind of mentality, almost bargaining, works in a world full of hungry shadows.07.31. New Poem! "Everything is Allowed," Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Volume 22 Number 306.15. New Poem! "Schrödinger's Cat," Visual Verse, Volume 10 Chapter 805.08. New Poem! "The Untaken," Strange Horizons, May 8, 2023


2022

02.24. New Poem! "The Butterfly Affect," Visual Verse, Volume 9 Chapter 402.15. New Poem! "Mister Potato Head," Fantasy Magazine, Issue 76


2021

12.09. New Poem! "English Just Doesn’t Cut," harana poetry, issue 912.07. Mark performs "Underwater Tongue" at the 2021 Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition Awards Event.11.19. Winners of the 2021 Oxford-Brookes International Poetry Competition announced! Except from the Judge's Report by Will Harris: The special commendation goes to "Underwater Tongue", whose first three lines blew the top of my head off, not least because of the strange ecological-familial power invested in the poet's use of "anomalies". I'm also still puzzling over the powerful relationship between "speaking/ fish" and "fish/ words".11.03. New Poem with Audio! "The Bruised Ones," Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Auditory Cortex 202110.27. Housekeeping Duties in a recommended reading list by specpotpourri: Not all ghosts are vengeful and not all hauntings are terrifying, though even the most benign of the visitations in Mark Dimaisip’s meditative "Housekeeping Duties" evoke an eeriness that’s hard to deny.10.16. Mark performs "The Men I Adore" at the hybrid poetry slam event of Ubud Writers & Readers Festival.09.10. Quick Sip Review of the Southeast Asia Poetry Special of Strange Horizons. On "Housekeeping Duties" poem: There’s something just great and a bit haunting about the final lines, the image of this line strung out from the past, waiting for a narrator who has moved away. But who might yet return, who could still pick up that tin can and speak to ghosts.09.06. Mark reads "Housekeeping Duties" for the Strange Horizon's podcast on Southeast Asia Poetry Special. Also available on Anghami, Apple Podcast, Podbean, and Spotify.08.30. New Poem! "Housekeeping Duties," Strange Horizons, Southeast Asia Poetry Special.04.05. In Episode 15 of Anton U, Antonio Bathan reviews "Isang Salita", a spoken word collaboration between Jerome Cleofas and Mark Dimaisip


2020

12.14. Nasaan ang Katawan, a limited edition zine for MNLxVIE Equality Fest 2019, is now available at artbooks.ph! Mark's poem "Father Figure" is on page 16.04.16. Bigkas Pilipinas Volume 2 is out! Mark Dimaisip and Leandro Reyes' collaborative poem "Why Poetry" is on track 15. Available on Apple Music, Amazon, and Spotify.