Sean Labrador y Manzano lives on the island off the coast of Oakland. His family hails from Pangasinan and Zambales. He edits Conversations at the Wartime Café, curated the MFA reading series Mixer 2.0., organised the symposium "From Trauma to Catharsis: Performing the Asian Avant-Garde," and performed as Jose Rizal in the jazz choreo-poem, "Das Kapital—Volume 4: Elimination of the Industrial Phase and the Accumulation of Debt." His current projects examine Buddhism and graduate student suicide, H.D. and colonialism, Balikatan, and race and violence. [Poetry]