Rigel Ruel Portales
Rigel Portales is a 20-year-old Filipino poet afraid of disappearing. Fortunately, his works have appeared/are soon to appear on Palette Poetry, Frontier Poetry, and Cha with a poetry chapbook, Dead Boys Make the Best Men, forthcoming from FlowerSong Press in the US. He's currently a poetry staffer at the Malate Literary Folio.
Dead Boys Make the Best Men is a daydream of masculinity, its logic and its languor. In this collection of poetry, men hold buses hostage while also fixing their son's airconditioner; boys play basketball before they die prematurely. What survives within this chapbook are their impressions, half-remembered but desperate to live a little bit longer.