Patrick Rosal | Marlino Bitanga
Patrick Rosal is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive, which won the Members' Choice Award from the Asian American Writers' Workshop and was a finalist for the organization's literary awards. His second collection, My American Kundiman, won the Association of Asian American Studies 2006 Book Award in Poetry and the 2007 Global Filipino Literary Award. His chapbook Uncommon Denominators won the Palanquin Poetry Series Award from the University of South Carolina, Aiken. His poems and essays have been published widely in journals and anthologies including Harvard Review, Crab Orchard Review, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, North American Review, The Literary Review, Pindledyboz, Black Renaissance Noire, Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Non-Fiction, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art , The Beacon Best and Language for a New Century.
His poems have been honored widely, cited among top honors by the annual Allen Ginsberg Awards, the James Hearst Poetry Prize, the Arts and Letters Prize, Best of the Net and others. In 2007, he was named Mills Distinguished Lecturer at the University of North Carolina, Asheville. His poems and voiceovers were included in the Argentine feature-length film Anhua: Amanecer which screened at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival. He was scriptwriter for the documentary film Camp Roxas, directed by Alex Munoz and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has also appeared on the Leonard Lopate Show and the BBC Radio's World Today. His invited readings include the Dodge Poetry Festival, the Old Dominion University Literary Festival, the Poetry@Tech Series at Georgia Tech, Poetry @ MIT, the Carr Reading Series at UIUC, the Whitney Museum, Sarah Lawrence College, where he earned his MFA, and hundreds of other venues that span the United States, London, Buenos Aires, and the Philippines.
He has served as visiting writer at Penn State Altoona, Centre College, and the University of Texas, Austin. He taught creative writing for many years at Bloomfield College and twice served on the faculty of Kundiman's summer retreat for Asian American Poets. In addition to conducting workshops in Alabama prisons through Auburn University, he has taught high school workshops through the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Sarah Lawrence College's Summer Writing Conference for High School Students, and the Volume workshops in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
He is a New Jersey native and the son of Ilocano immigrants. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
E-Mail: rosalpatrick@gmail.com
As a 20-year veteran to the DJing game, Marlino's DJ career started as a mobile disc jockey in 1988, which led to an opportunity to work in the radio industry in 1995 at WILD 107.7 FM (which shortly changed to WILD 94.9) in San Francisco. In 1997, he landed himself a spot as an On-Air Personality and Mixshow DJ at Jammin Z90.3 FM in San Diego where he made his mark as the first DJ in San Diego to spin live on the air on 3 turntables.
After over 11 years working in radio, in the Fall of 2006, Marlino passed on an opportunity to return to the radio industry in order to develop the podcast show Heavy Rotation – The Rise of Filipino Hip Hop and R&B. The idea was realized on December 8, 2007, as the first Filipino Hip Hop and R&B radio show on the world wide web. The idea was to establish a media outlet for Filipino Hip Hop and R&B music.
Aside from his professional experiences in radio, Marlino earned a Bachelor's of Art degree in Communications from California State University, San Marcos, and is Certified as a Media and Marketing Specialist from San Diego State University. Marlino also founded Bitanga Advertising, Inc., a boutique Asian American Advertising Agency specializing in reaching an Urban Asian audience. As a community leader and role model, Marlino also facilitates workshops at local and regional Filipino American high school conferences, and offers advertising and marketing-related seminars for schools and businesses.
E-Mail: mbitanga@bitanga.net