Not exactly a ‘Dead Poets’ Society’ by Diana A. Uy Manila Standard Today March 30, 2010 At the Taboan: 2nd Philippine Writers Festival, held recently at the Casino Español in Cebu, the country's most prolific writers tried to address issues ranging from the literary possibility of facebook, including blogs, to mainstreaming indigenous writing, organizing writing workshops, and the apparent decline of the country’s readership. Taboan, organized by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, under the National Committee on Literary Arts, was meant to highlight Cebuano literature, as well as honor the city's most accomplished and brilliant writers. as what to do with the country’s “ethnic’’ works in this very ‘‘Manila-centric’’ community of writers and readers? The problem with ethnicity Most of the participants/facilitators agree that indigenous writing is a matter of national importance in Philippine literature. But the fact remains that even in this very small, free-wheel...