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= Epitacio Ramos Tongohan = Epitacio Ramos Tongohan (19 November 1955), known in global literary circuits as “Doc Penpen Bugtong Takipsilim,” or simply Doc Penpen, is a medical doctor, indie filmmaker and producer, artist, and poet from Tanay, Rizal, the Philippines, and was crowned by different poets’ organizations and groups all over the world as the “Father of Visual Poetry.” He also founded the global poetry group of distinct poets, Pentasi B Global Friendship Poetry.

Early Life and Education
Tongohan was a native of Tanay, a municipality in Rizal. A trained medical doctor specializing in anatomic pathology, he obtained his degree in Medical Technology from the Royal and Pontifical Catholic University of Santo Tomas in Manila in 1979. He got his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of the East - Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center in 1984. He returned to UST to study further and obtained his specialization in Anatomic Pathology in 1988.

His dream was to become the leading pathologist in the world, focusing on his studies on cloning. However, he was diverted into arts and poetry and began traveling all over the world to promote his visual poetry and also for the Philippines to become the “Poetry Heart of the World.” As a filmmaker and producer, he produced the film “Takipsilim,” which received a citation from the Film Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS) in 2016.

Awards and Accolades
In 2013, Tongohan was conferred by different Filipino poets as the Father of Visual Poetry at the National Library of the Philippines. This honor was sealed when Sophy Chen and prominent poets conferred the same title to Tongohan during the Pentasi B World Poetree in Beijing in 2020. Since then, Tongohan received numerous recognitions and accolades from prominent poetry groups worldwide.