Steven Schroeder, who told us he's already expecting the first snow in Chicago, has appeared in Cha several times. His poems "Guidebook Says" and "A Water Planet" were published in the first anniversary issue ("Guidebook Says" was also discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea), while his poetry sequence "Shenzhen, Three Times" was featured in Issue 8 of the journal. In the September 2010 issue of Cha, we will be publishing a poem from his collection A Dim Sum of the Day Before: "You Can Smell Roads". Our Consulting Editor Reid Mitchell, who is reviewing the book for the issue, described the poem:
It is set in a city "growing / unfamiliar fast," presumably Shenzhen. The newly rich are displacing the traditional dwellers: "Now / oyster fishermen's huts have given way to tents, and you know they will not be here long."
Bio: Steven Schroeder is the co-founder, with composer Clarice Assad, of the Virtual Artists Collective (a "virtual" gathering of musicians, poets, and visual artists) that has published five poetry collections each year since it began in 2004. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in After Hours, Concho River Review, the Cresset, Druskininkai Poetic Fall 2005, Macao Closer, Mid-America Poetry Review, Poetry East, Poetry Macao, Rhino, Shichao, Sichuan Literature, Texas Review, TriQuarterly, Wichita Falls Literature & Art Review, and other literary journals. He has published two chapbooks, Theory of Cats and Revolutionary Patience, and five full-length collections, Fallen Prose, The Imperfection of the Eye, Six Stops South (reviewed in Cha), A Dim Sum of the Day Before, and (with Debby Sou Vai Keng) A Guest Giving way Like Ice Melting: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Laozi. He teaches at the University of Chicago in Asian Classics and the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults.
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