New updates on 7 Cha contributors: Ivy Alvarez, Bob Bradshaw, Arjun Rajendran, Kaitlin Solimine, W.F. Lantry, Murli Melwani and Ricky Garni

Ivy Alvarez

"Tumbling", a poem by Ivy Alvarez, is now available in the August/September edition of Our Own Voice. 

|| See Ivy Alvarez's Cha profile. 

*****

Bob Bradshaw and Arjun Rajendran

Bob Bradshaw's poem "Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear" and Arjun Rajendran's poem "First Day at a New School" are now publsihed in the August 2012 issue of Red River Review. 

|| Read Bob Bradshaw's Cha profile.

|| Arjun Rajendran's poetry was published in Issue #11 of Cha.

*****

Kaitlin Solimine

Kaitlin Solimine's invaluable personal essay "The Chinese Expat in Exile" is now published in The World of Chinese. 

|| Kaitlin Solimine's fiction was published in Issue #14 of Cha.

*****

W.F. Lantry

W.F. Lantry's poem "Autumn" is featured in the Fall 2012 issue of Stone Voices. Learn more about the publication here.

||  Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.

*****

Murli Melwani

A new short story by Murli Melwani entitled "Those Seasons of Contentment" is included in the August 2012 issue of Open Road Review. 'Between the marble and kite seasons was the tops season'...

|| Murli Melwani's fiction "Freezing Time" is forthcoming in Issue #18 of Cha, due out in late September 2012.

*****

Ricky Garni

Ricky Garni's new poems "The Really Lone Ranger" and "A Look Inside" are published in The Bakery yesterday and today respectively. You can also listen to Ricky's recordings of the two pieces on the Bakery website. Don't you think "A Look Inside" is very interesting? Where does Ricky get all these ideas? A third poem is forthcoming tomorrow. 

|| Ricky Garni's poem "Literal Translation of Korean Ideograms" was published in Issue #16 of Cha and was creatively responded on A Cup of Fine Tea. Ricky's poem "Tarsier" is forthcoming in Issue #18 of Cha, due out in late September 2012.

*****

Updates on 8 contributors: Arthur Leung, Daryl Yam, Cyril Wong, Ivy Alvarez, Marc Vincenz, Rumjhum Biswas, Dena Rash Guzman and Kristine Ong Muslim

Arthur Leung, Daryl Yam and Cyril Wong

The new issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore is now available! Read Arthur Leung's "Chicken Rice in Singapore" (a reinterpretation of Leung Ping-kwan's Chinese poem), Daryl Yam's stories "It's Not Valid" and "Love Is A Killer" and Cyril Wong's regular column, Acid Tongue - this time the topic is "More things wrong in American poetry". There is also a review of Chris Mooney-Singh's The Bearded Chameleon by David Fedo in the new issue. 

|| See Arthur Leung's Cha profile.
|| Daryl Yam's poetry is forthcoming in Issue #17 of Cha.
|| Cyril Wong's poetry was published in Issue#1 of Cha. 
|| Chris Mooney-Singh's poetry was published in Issue #2 of Cha.

*****

Ivy Alvarez

Ivy Alvarez's poem "An Unidentified Man" is published in the April 2012 issue of Our Own Voice.   

|| See Ivy Alvarez's Cha profile. 

*****

Marc Vincenz

A Russian translation of Marc Vincenz's poem, "Taishan Mountain", translated by Jenya Krein, is published in the new issue of the Russian-language literary journal OKNO. Scroll to the bottom of the page to read/see the poem in Russian. You can also read the English original and Marc's discussion of it on the Lantern Review blog. 

|| See Marc Vincenz's Cha profile.

*****

Rumjhum Biswas

Rumjhum Biswas's poem "Last Night I Dreamed of Valpolicella" is available on Every Day Poets.

 || See Rumjhum Biswas's Cha profile. 

*****

Dena Rash Guzman

Read Dena Rash Guzman's discussion of Zachary Schomburg's video poem "Your Limbs Will Be Torn Off In a Farm Accident" on The Rumpus. It's a beautiful poem and Dena's personal take on it is equally beautiful.

|| Dena Rash Guzman's poetry was published in Issue #15 and Issue #16 of Cha.

*****

Kristine Ong Muslim

Kristine Ong Muslim's poem "The Half-Butterfly" is available in Punchnel's.  

|| Kristine Ong Muslim's poetry was published in issue #9 of Cha and her poem "Preface to a Pornographer's Dirty Book" is discussed here.

*****

New updates on 6 Cha contributors: Kristine Ong Muslim, Sridala Swami, Sumana Roy, Nabina Das, Anindita Sengupta and Ivy Alvarez

Kristine Ong Muslim

Kristine Ong Muslim's new collection of prose poetry and ekphrastic flash fiction We Bury the Landscape is now available for pre-ordering. Learn more about the book here. 
Kristine Ong Muslim's poetry was published in issue #9 of Cha and her poem "Preface to a Pornographer's Dirty Book" is discussed here.

*****

Sridala Swami, Sumana Roy, Nabina Das and Anindita Sengupta

The Spring 2012 issue of pyrta is now live and several Cha contributors have new poetry in it. Read Sumana Roy's "Marriage: Mirror", Nabina Das's "Shiva of the Shantytown" and Anindita Sengupta's "The Eye of Horus". The poetry in this issue was guest edited by Sridala Swami, whose has written a lovely note.

|| Read Sumana Roy's Cha profile.

|| Nabina Das's poetry was published in Issue #10 of Cha.

|| Anindita Sengupta's poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha.

|| Sridala Swami's poem "moments before they take him away" was published in issue #3 of Cha and discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea. 

*****

Ivy Alvarez

Read Ivy Alvarez's poem "Seph" and an interview in the latest issue of Certain Circuits Magazine.

Read Ivy Alvarez's Cha profile.  

*****

Ivy Alvarez in We Are Cardiff

-

Ivy Alvarez's poem "Chapel" is now featured on We Are Cardiff. Read it here.

-

Read Ivy Alvarez's Cha profile.  

-

-

Ivy Alvarez in Poems in the Waiting Room, Australia

-

Ivy Alvarez's poem "Hold" is in the first edition of Poems in the Waiting Room, Australia. Learn more about the history of the publication here.

-

Read Ivy Alvarez's Cha profile.  

-

-

Cha - Call for Submissions - Issue #18 (September 2012)

-[click-

due out in September 2012.

-

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for its September 2012 issue (Issue # 18).

Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines can be found here. Deadline: 15 June, 2012.

Former contributors Ivy Alvarez (poetry) and Berit Ellingsen (prose) will act as guest editors and read the submissions with co-editors Tammy Ho and Jeff Zroback. Please contact Reviews Editor Eddie Tay at eddie@asiancha.com if you want to review a book or have a book reviewed in the journal.

If you have any questions, please feel free to write to any of the Cha staff at editors@asiancha.com.-

-- , 

-

Ivy Alvarez reads | 13 March 2012

-

Ivy Alvarez will be reading on 13 March 2012. More information here.

-
Read Ivy Alvarez's Cha profile.
-

Ivy Alvarez in Eye Socket Journal

-

Four poems by Ivy Alvarez, "The Farmer's Wife", "With This Ring", "Stolen" and "Uncle", are now published in the February 2012 issue of Eye Socket Journal: A Monthly E-Zine. Read Ivy's poems here.

-

Read Ivy Alvarez's Cha profile.

-

Ivy Alvarez and Luisa A. Igloria in Fire On Her Tongue

-

Cha contributors Ivy Alvarez and Luisa A. Igloria have works in Fire On Her Tongue: An eBook Anthology of Contemporary Women's Poetry, edited by Kelli Russell Agodon and Annette Spaulding-Convy. Ivy's poems are "What Vivien Leigh Dropped" and "What Rita Hayworth Threw Away" and Luisa's poems are "Forager", Despedida de Soltera", "Speaking Of____" and "Consonance". Learn more about the anthology and purchase a copy here. 

• Read Ivy Alvarez's Cha profile.
• Luisa A. Igloria's poetry was published in issue #2 and issue #8 of Cha.

-

Ivy Alvarez in Cordite

-

Ivy Alvarez's poems "Curing the Animal" and "The Pastoralist Speaks" are included in the 29.0: PASTORAL edition of Cordite Poetry Review. 

-
Read Ivy Alvarez's Cha profile.
-

Cha contributors in Mascara Literary Review

-

Read Nicholas Y.B. Wong's "Journey" and "Paranormal Panorama" and Ivy Alvarez's "The secret sister" and "The Museum of Inexplicable History" in the new issue of Mascara Literary Review. Also in the issue is Paul Sharrad's review of Michelle Cahill's Vishvarūpa and Carol Chan's review of Jee Leong Koh's Seven Studies for a Self Portrait.
-

• See Nicholas Y.B. Wong's Cha profile.
• See Ivy Alvarez's Cha profile.
• Michelle Cahill's poetry was published in issue #2 of Cha.
• Jee Leong Koh's poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.

-

Ivy Alvarez in BIG Kids Magazine

-

Ivy Alvarez's "Tilt", written in response to Makaelathe's (aged 7) "The Viollisa Bird" is now featured on BIG Kids Magazine. Ivy's piece begins with the following:

Every airport has a particular smell. Hong Kong International Airport's a dried fish/market stall smell while Heathrow is all diesel dust and desperation.

Continue reading here.

-

Ivy Alvarez's poetry was published in issue #7 of Cha

-

Concelebratory Shoehorn Review - The Fourth Anniversary Issue

The Fourth Anniversary Issue of Concelebratory Shoehorn Review (editor: Maurice Oliver) is now online. It features poetry by Barry Ballard, Cheong Lee San, Kevin Prufer, Corey Cook, John Gallaher, Sandra McPherson and Kelly Norman Ellis; and photography of Milan Malovich and art of Kathleen Pequignot. The new issue also includes Ivy Alvarez's poems "auricle, ventricle", "lost flesh", "mother, daughter" and "resurrection". Read the entire issue here.

-

• Maurice Oliver's poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha.
• Ivy Alvarez's poetry was published in issue #7 of Cha

-

Ivy Alvarez and Michelle Cahill in Red Leaves

From the Red Leaves website: 

Red Leaves/ 紅葉 is Australia's (and the world's!) first English-language / Japanese bi-lingual literary journal. The inaugural issue of this independent publication — which is now available for purchase online, as well as throughout Australia and Japan — was published and distributed in MAY, 2010: during the height of Australian autumn. 

In issue #001 (Australian fall, 2010), you will find Ivy Alvarez's and Michelle Cahill's poetry. Read more:

http://www.myspace.com/redleaveskoyo#ixzz14mJMtOIx

• Ivy Alvarez's poetry was published in issue #7 of Cha
• Michelle Cahill's poetry was published in issue #2 of Cha

-

Whale Sound

Whale Sound is Nic Sebastian's project. According to Nic, "My idea is to record and post readings of contemporary poems that affect me in one way or another." Learn more about Whale Sound here.


Several Cha contributors' poems have been recorded by Nic. Listen to:

• 'Flaubert's Babies' by Divya Rajan
• 'bend' by Ivy Alvarez
• 'A Bigfoot Poem' by Dave Bonta
• 'Blue Mexico' by Robert E. Wood
• 'Childhood Punishments' by Jee Leong Koh

-

-

Ivy Alvarez in Verity La

Ivy Alvarez's poem "Garage [hat]" is now published on Verity La. Read it here.

-

-

Ivy Alvarez's poetry was published in issue #7 of Cha

-

-

Ivy Alvarez in The Nepotist

Read Ivy Alvarez's three Spain poems, "Phrases", "Lemon flowers, dama de noche" and "En las montañas", freshly published in The Nepotist.

-

-

Ivy Alvarez's poetry was published in issue #7 of Cha

-

-

Cordite Poetry Review -- Zombie 2.0

The new issue of Cordite Poetry Review -- Zombie 2.0 is now out. It is guest edited by Cha contributor Ivy Alvarez. Also read Arlene Ang's poems "We Came Out At Night", "Life with Mr Darcy", "How She Changed Her Diet", "Toward a State of Symbiosis" and "Some Bad Life".

-

• Ivy Alvarez's poetry has been published in issue #7 of Cha
• Arlene Ang's poetry has been published in issue #1 of Cha

Cha contributors in Blue Fifth Review

Cha contributors Ivy Alvarez and Divya Rajan have new works in the Winter 2010 issue of Blue Fifth Review. Read Ivy's "B", "J" and "K" on this page. And Divya's gorgeous artwork ("Ocean Desires" and "Veiless Woman") is also found in the issue.

• Divya Rajan's poetry has been published in issue #8 of Cha. Her poem, "Factory Girls", was discussed in A Cup of Fine Tea and nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
• Ivy Alvarez's poetry has been published in issue #7 of Cha.

Poetry on Tap (Sunday 18th April, 2pm)

[Click the image to enlarge.]

Ivy Alvarez's poetry has been published in issue #7 of Cha.