How Warm is His Hand?

Tea Solon enjoys drinking coconut water any given day. She runs the Butung is Layp (Coconut is Life) blog and posts her translations of life from her lens and sense. With an MA in Literature from the University of San Carlos and a PhD in English from the University of San Jose-Recoletos in Cebu City, Philippines, Tea had served the academe for nearly a score. Her Cebuano Visayan poems have found a home on the pages of Kabisdak, and her English poems have appeared in Spillwords and Gobblers & Masticadores, among others. Tea collaborated and published three books: SOLON DESCENDANTS Poetry and Creative Expressions from 3 Generations (2022); DEW OF MY MEMORIES Collection of Poetry in Cebuano and English (2022); PALWA (2023), her first collection of poetry.