The Green Poets' Network (GPNet)

GREEN POETS’ NETWORK

The Green Poets’ Network (GPNet) is a coalition of poetry writers and enthusiasts that strives to bring together various poets from campus and other walks of life so that they can write poems tackling issues and themes about ecology and the protection and conservation of Mother Earth.

The GPNet believes that through poetry, we can find our way back to Mother Nature – one that is relevant, burning, and probably fun. Our driving force has been to write words of concern and to challenge ourselves in propagating through poems our concern for ecology.

The poet is the heart of this network. And their individual voice must be heard. That’s why we should listen to each other’s voice, sharing our commonality and acknowledging our differences. Through poetry, we will create a means of understanding the complexities and harmony of the world we live in.

The language of poetry and the words of poets has no boundary. Poets can write about the air, the sea, the sky, the beauty of Manila Bay, the burning issues of global warming, the Copenhagen Summit, the no plastics campaign, the anti-Laiban Dam protest, and the like. He or she can write during campus recess, in the Dean’s office, in the slums of Manila, in the workers’ picketline, in the war-torn Iraq, in the United Nations office, in the site of the Maguindanao massacre, in the battlefields, and probably from a jail cell, such as what our national artist and poet Amado V. Hernandez has written in his compilation “Isang Dipang Langit”.

MISSION

The GPNet envisions a society where there is caring and concern for Mother Nature and the arts. Poets will publish works in different publications and in different languages. And GPNet will collate poems on green issues to be published in a literary book or journal.

GOALS

1. To bring together literary editors from different publications, may it be campus or NGOs
2. To propagate through poetry burning issues about the planet we live in
3. To help young poets understand various issues on the environment, and encourage other poets to write something that will contribute in caring for Mother Earth
4. To share our knowledge and experiences through poetry
5. To inspire people
6. To fight for the protection of our environment from the bondage of greed, and to struggle through poetry against those who are dirtying the environment

For other details and activities, please feel free to contact:

DANTE PASIA
Convenor, Green Pen Network (GPN)
Organizer, Green Poets Network (GPNet)
0927-7080013, 0932-9205696

GREGORIO V. BITUIN JR.
Writer, Tagalog poet
Organizer, Green Poets Network
0935-9259537