Mila D. Aguilar 1096509 222797307 2008-07-01T04:17:08Z Otterspace 7342522 trimmed excessive linkage [[Image:Replace this image female.svg|right]] '''Mila D. Aguilar''' (born [[1949]]) is a [[Filipino people|Filipina]] poet and revolutionary, author of ''A Comrade is as Precious as a Rice Seedling'' and ''Journey: An Autobiography in Verse (1964-1995)''. She is also an essayist, teacher, video documentarist, and website designer. As a poet, she has written almost 240 poems in English, [[Filipino language|Filipino]], and [[Ilonggo]]. About 125 of these are in her collection of poems, ''Journey: An Autobiography in Verse (1964-1995),'' published by the [[University of the Philippines Press]] in 1996. This collection contains poems from six books printed in [[Manila]], San Francisco, and New York between the years 1974 and 1987 (including ''A Comrade is as Precious as a Rice Seedling''), as well as poems written in subsequent years up to 1995. Ms. Aguilar has written more than a hundred essays, a handful of which were done when she went "underground"– first as an ordinary member, then later as head of the Regional United Front Commission of [[Mindanao]], and last as head of the National United Front Commission of the [[Communist Party of the Philippines]], from which she resigned in 1984. She has produced, written, and directed almost 50 videos on subjects ranging from community organizations to regional cultures and good manners for government employees. As a "webweaver", a term she invented, she has designed her own web pages as well as the website of a non-governmental organization. At present she is teaching at the Department of English and [[Comparative Literature]] of the [[University of the Philippines, Diliman]]. {{DEFAULTSORT:Aguilar, Mila D.}} [[Category:Filipino writers]] [[Category:1949 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Filipino women writers]] {{Philippines-writer-stub}}