Erwin Ponce lives in the American Midwest and works at a public library. He has an MFA from Emerson College. He has the gift of feeling at home whenever he is in Manila. He is at work on a manuscript tentatively titled Pilipinas; or, Ending up in Modern Day Metro Manila. He has been grappling with his use of semicolons. Poems from this manuscript have also appeared in Eastlit, TAYO Literary Magazine, and The Asian American Literary Review. [Poetry]