“The poems were drawn from my experiences as an employee for a BPO company from April 2017 to December 2020 — and they express a strong working class bias. I dedicate this collection to Filipino BPO workers in particular.“
“For four months, I worked on my zine/chapbook, Strange Intimacies: Essays on Dressing Up and Consumption together with my illustrator Beyza Durmus and layout artist Roma Calderon. The three essays within this chapbook were all written during quarantine, at a time of great loneliness that’s made me feel both manic and morose. I’ve cleaved harder to certain habits, modes of being, and thinking that function as salves to my soul. Here you will find musings on pre-loved clothes, the comfort I glean from the studied language of intimacy in brand emails, and my attempt in defining the concept of ‘space’ as a creative and dreamer in my early 20s.“
“Ibinabahagi ko ang una sa labindalawang photozine na binabalak mabuo ngayong taon. Ito ay personal na proyekto. Ito ang mga imaheng produkto ng walang sawa naming pagniniig ng aking kamera. Sana’y mahanap mo ang totoong kulay ng mga larawang ito. Maraming salamat.”
“Postmodern Musings are simply that—a collection of random thoughts that took different literary forms of varying perceived realities. I write about things that capture my curiosity, so all the pieces here are about things I find interesting. I don’t believe in rules or formal structures in writing—but musings are, after all, disorganized trains of thought.”
“This zine is a small collection of poems written from the perspective of desire, yearning, and nostalgia. These are fragments of stranded intimacies, a collection of words we never got to say, and how we design ourselves to be vulnerable and how we prepare for the inevitable.”
“Ang Kahit Ano ay isang koleksyon ng dagli at maikling kuwento mula sa makulit na imahinasyon ni John Kenneth Bea. Umiikot ang zine na ito sa iba’t-ibang tagpo sa buhay: mula sa kuwento ng isang tatay, mag-syota, hanggang sa kuwento ng isang superhero. Basta, kahit ano.”
“Paborito is a collection of essays that tackles desires and obsessions. From simple, hidden desires to the more onerous habits that erode as much as they give, Paborito attempts to understand the various hues of desire, wherever it happens to land.”
“Kahayaw is the first zine of KADLiT’s league of essayists, the House of Lions. It was first published and printed for exhibit at the National Book Development Board’s Book Fiesta 2018 in Intramuros, Manila.”
“Pulso was my first printed zine (I had self-published a novel in 2016), and if I remember correctly, we turned this out just in time for the Book Fiesta of 2018. My second chapbook followed soon after—Otopsiya. This zine was memorable for me because previously I had previously worked alone, without a group. While the struggles of indie are real, I’ll probably never stop publishing and moving against the tide. That’s just how it is.”
