Jose Corazon de Jesus was a writer-performer who was dubbed as the Philippines' "poet of the 20th century," and "first king of poetry jousts (Balagtasan)." Almario opens the volume with a 34-page ...

De Jesuswas acclaimed as the “First King of Balagtasan,” a poetical joust popular during the early decades of the 20th century. To the public mind, the poet José Corazon de Jesus (1894-1932 ...

Jose Corazon de Jesus (1894-1932) When he was young, Levi Celerio, National Artist for Music and Literature, never missed a public performance of the man they called “Hari ng Balagtasan,” Jose ...

MANILA, Philippines — Before the age of “FlipTop” battles, Filipino poet Jose Corazon de Jesus was already slaying verses in the early 1920s. Jose, better known by his pen name Huseng Batute ...

Poet Jose Corazon de Jesus, also known as “Huseng Batute,” was born in Sta. Cruz, Manila, on Nov. 22, 1894. Crowned as “Hari ng Balagtasan” in the 1920s, among his famous poems are “Ang ...

Jose Corazon de Jesus (Huseng Batute), the writer who penned the Tagalog lyrics to the song “Bayan Ko,” was the same person who took part, along with Florentino Collantes, in the very first ...