** Ramón C. Sunico is an internationally published poet, book publisher, editor, writer, book designer, and the author of several books, including the acclaimed poetry book Bruise: A Two Tongue Job. A National Fellow for Poetry of the University of the Philippines Creative Writing Center, he is the recipient of the Gawad Alagadni Balagtas for poetry (the Writers Union of the Philippines), the Fr Henry Lee Irwin Chair in Creative Writing (Ateneo de Manila) and other important prizes like the Philippines Free Press Literary Awards, the Carlos Palanca Memorial Literary Awards, the Anvil Award for Coffeetable Book Text and Design and National Book Awards as author, editor, and/or designer. He was manager of Carmelo & Bauermann Printing Corp and Cacho Publishing House. He pioneered in desktop publishing, internet listservs on Philippine culture and bilingual books for children. He now teaches at Ateneo’s School of Humanities and the Center for Journalism.
Love Poem Exercise # 197: Loss
**Portrait by Joanne De Leon
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