Kabel Mishka Ligot

<A man with dark hair, a short beard, and glasses looks on through the branches of a houseplant.>

Kabel Mishka Ligot is a writer from Quezon City in the Philippines. You can find recent work of his in the Iowa Review, Poetry Magazine, Shō, Cordite, and elsewhere. Mishka has received fellowships and support from Tin House Summer Workshop, the Luminarts Cultural Foundation, and other institutions. He moved to the American Midwest in 2017 to pursue degrees in Poetry and Information. Mishka is currently based in Shikaakwa (Chicago), where he studies and teaches.

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Translating Mga Larong Pambata

Kabel Mishka Ligot  | 
Issue 75.1 Fall 2025

My grandfather is the lone doctor in this mountain town. The day is infinitely / chambered into fifteen-minute intervals in his clinic.