Dr. Anthony Tan Dominates the 2007 Pinoy Poet Award

Anthony Tan was born on 26 August 1947, Siasi [Muddas], Sulu. His degrees AB English, 1968, MA Creative Writing, 1975, and Ph.D. English Lit., 1982 were all obtained from the Silliman University where he edited Sands and Coral, 1976. For more than a decade, he was a member of the English faculty at SU and regular member of the panel of critics in the Silliman Writers
Workshop. He taught briefly at the DLSU and was Chair of the English Dept. at MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology where he continues to teach. A member of the Iligan Arts Council, he helps Jaime An Lim and Christine Godinez-Ortega run the Iligan Writers Workshop/Literature Teachers Conference. He also writes fiction and children's stories.

He has won a number of awards, among them, the Focus award for poetry, the Palanca 1 st prize for Poems for Muddas in 1993; also the Palanca for essay. Among his works are The Badjao Cemetery and Other Poems , 1985 and Poems for Muddas , Anvil, 1996.

Dr Anthony Tan is the 1st Grand Winner of the 2007 Pinoy Poet Award. For winning the 6 major awards in all category.

The Winners Reveal!-2007 Pinoy Poet Award

The 2007 Pinoy Poet Award held at the Online Judging done at yahoo messenger forum. All Judges compose of Filipino Free Lance Writer or Poet; Founder of Poetry Group and Diffrent Respective Poet in the Philippines. The Scores of the Winners are based of Different percentage probably creativity,skills and knowledge. Its been quite difficult to our judges to choose among different poet to win, but they are all good in term of participation. but as they alsway said, to be nominate atleast one is considered as winner, better luck next time. But as we promise to you people of the Philippines we will help our brighter and talented poet to improve and to be competetive in field of poetry.

see the winners at the 2007 Pinoy Poet Award

Judges 1 2 3 4 5 =final

Best Skills by a Male Poet-Dr. Anthony 94 95 98 98 100= 97%
Best Skills by a Female Poet-Chi 89 84 90 89 94= 89.2%
Best Ode-Quils Poetic Craft by Nora Caldero 92 95 96 94 95 =94.4%
Best Classical-Crossing the River by Dr. Anthony Tan 98 98 98 99 99 =98.4%
Best Epic-Gutom na Makata by William Rodriquez 92 94 90 94 95= 93%
Best Rhyme-Back from what we've started by Jaemie Falcon 85 86 82 84 89 =85.2%
Best Line-Death is not an Option by Nora Caldero 95 95 95 95 95 =95%
Best Lyric-Crossing the river by Dr. Anthony 99 98 99 98 99 =98.6%
Best Poem-A cynic's New Millenium by Dr. Anthony Tan 90 89 90 85 90 =88.8%
Nation of Survivors by Nora Caldero 88 92 89 88 87 =88.8%
Best Haiku-Haiku Marshland by Vinci Bueza 85 88 89 92 89= 88.6%
Best Sonnet-Pinakahalaba ngunian an Banggi by Vinci 92 94 95 96 94= 94.2%
Best New Female Poet-Nora Caldero 95 96 95 96 93 =95%
Best New Male Poet-Vinci Bueza 92 93 96 95 94 =94%
Poet of the Year-Dr. Anthony Tan 98 97 99 98 99 =98.2%
Poem of the Year-Crossing the river by Dr. Anthony Tan 98 99 99 99 99= 98.8%

Entry /Total Votes

People's Choice Favorite New Male Poet-Argel Sanga 473 votes
People's Choice Favorite New Female Poet-Chi 345 votes
People's Choice Favorite Poem-Love is Soul by Argel Sanga 859 votes

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The 2007 Pinoy Poets Award

The year end program is now finally open, for its 1st awarding ceremony. Which will differenciate the most promising talents in the field of poetry. As they show there skills and talent in there own technical ways. The 2007 Pinoy Poets Awrad will be held at December 09, 2007 at the University of Siliman.

Check out all the nomination entry for the first anual ceremony,to be posted at 12:00 am.

All entry pass all the free judging period which is held on September 2007.

Here are the Category;

Individual Category

Best New Male Poet 40% Originality 40% Skills 20% Overall Impact
Best New Female Poet 40% Originality 40% Skills 20% Overall Impact
Poet of the Year 40% Originality 40% Skills 20% Overall Impact
Poem of the Year 40% Originality 40% Skills 20% Overall Impact

Poetry Awards

Best Poem 50% Originality 40% Technical Skills 10% votes
Best Haiku 50% Originality 50% Technical Skills
Best Rhyme 50% Originality 50% Technical Skills
Best Sonnet 50% Originality 50% Technical Skills
Best Lyric 50% Originality 50% Technical Skills
Best Ode 50% Originality 50% Technical Skills
Best Epic 50% Originality 50% Technical Skills
Best Classical 50% Originality 50% Technical Skills

Performance Category : 50% Originality/Skills 50% Total Techincal Perfomance

Best
Best Line
Best Performance by a Female Poet Artist
Best Performance by Male Poet Artist

People’s Choice Award (Voting System using POLL)

Favorite New Male Poet
Favorite New Female Poet
Favorite Poem
Favorite Sonnet
People’s Choice Poet of the Year
People’s Choice Poem of the Year