New updates on 10 Cha contributors: Iris A. Law, Ricky Garni, Christopher Anthony Leibow, Sridala Swami, Berit Ellingsen, Greg Santos, Jee Leong Koh, Lee Herrick, Kim-An Lieberman and Joseph O. Legaspi

Iris A. Law

Iris A. Law's poem "Watching The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, I think of my father" is now published in the September 2012 issue of The Collagist. 'Shells and rough silica scrape at the catacombs of my ears'... .

|| Iris A. Law's poetry has been published in Issue #7 of Cha. Her"Circumnavigation" was selected for inclusion in Sundress Publications' 2009 Best of the Net Anthology and discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea.

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Ricky Garni

Ricky Garni's poem "Samantha" is published in The Bakery, edited by Albert Abonado. Listen to Ricky's very wonderful recording of the poem. LOL. WTF. 

|| 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.

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Christopher Anthony Leibow

Christopher Anthony Leibow has a piece of artwork, entitled "Dreaming Nagasaki", featured in the latest edition of Samizdat Literary Journal. Christopher is the cover artist of the current issue of Cha.

|| Christopher Anthony Leibow's artwork was published in Issue #17 of Cha. 

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Sridala Swami

Last Sunday, in The Sunday Guardian, Sridala Swami reviewed The Poetry of the Taliban, which was edited by Alex Strick Von Linschoten and Felix Kuehn. Read the review here. 

|| 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. 

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Berit Ellingsen

Berit Ellingsen's story "The Cat that Dogs Hissed At" is featured on Navigating the Havens.

|| Read Berit Ellingsen's Cha profile.

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Greg Santos

Greg Santos's new poem "Flickering into Oblivion" is available in the Summer 2012 issue of the New Haven Review, a publication that provides a platform for writers associated with the Greater New Haven area. If you cannot get a copy of the print edition, you can still read Greg's poem here. 'Neither of us can sleep'....

|| Greg Santos's poem "Siem Reap, Cambodia" was published in issue #10 of Cha and discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea.

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Jee Leong Koh, Lee Herrick, Kim-An Lieberman and Joseph O. Legaspi

A special issue of Mascara Literary Review, focusing on Asian American poetry and guest edited by Jee Leong Koh, is now out! The issue features works by several Cha contributors. Read Lee Herrick's poems "Kwi Ch’on " and "Self-Portrait"; Kim-An Lieberman's poems "Unearthing Song" and "The Anti-Chinese Riot at Seattle, Washington Territory, Drawn By W.P. Snyder, From Sketches By J.F. Whiting, of Seattle"; and an introduction - a love song - to Kundiman by Joseph O. Legaspi.

|| Jee Leong Koh's poem "Razminovenie, or Nonmeeting" was published in issue #6 of Cha and discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea.

|| Lee Herrick's poetry was published in issue #4 of Cha.

|| Kim-An Lieberman's poetry was published in issue #12 of Cha.

|| Joseph O. Legaspi's poetry was published in issue #17 of Cha.

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New updates on 6 Cha contributors: Ricky Garni, Changming Yuan, Vinita Agrawal, Jee Leong Koh, Greg Santos and Berit Ellingsen

Ricky Garni 

Two new poems by Ricky Garni, "i can't believe it's not marjoram" (p. 20) and "white out" (p. 21), are published in the Summer 2012 issue of em:me magazine. But it is more writing out than whiting out, don't you think?

|| Ricky Garni's poetry was published in Issue #16 of Cha. 

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Changming Yuan and Vinita Agrawal

Changming Yuan and Vinita Agrawal have new poems published in the June 2012 issue of Contemporary Literary Review India. Read Changming's "The Call of a Crow", "Self-Rebuilding: A Bodhi Poem" and "Epilogues: A Parallel Poem" and Vinita's "The Image and the Form". 

||  Changming Yuan's poetry was published in Issue #13 of Cha.

|| Vinita Agrawal's poetry was published in Issue #16 and Issue #17 of Cha. 

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Jee Leong Koh

Jee Leong Koh's "Reproductive Rites" (pp. xviii-xxv), a series of short verses that incorporate four consecutive words from each poem of Julia Alvarez's sonnet sequence "33", is published in the June 2012 issue of Short, Fast, and Deadly Thanks, Joseph A. W. Quintela, for featuring the work in Short, Fast, and Deadly. 

|| Jee Leong Koh's poem "Razminovenie, or Nonmeeting" was published in issue #6 of Cha and discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea.


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Greg Santos 

Greg Santos's poem "Beware Reader" (p. 29?) can now be read in the online version of Black Tongue Review. Earl Grey tea, anyone?

|| Greg Santos's poem "Siem Reap, Cambodia" was published in issue #10 of Cha and discussed here.

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Berit Ellingsen 

Berit Ellingsen's lyrical "Sexual Dimorphism — A Nightmare Transcribed From Sanskrit" is published in the July/August 2012 issue of elimae. 'Your female self must walk through the woods'. 

|| Read Berit Ellingsen's Cha profile.

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Jee Leong Koh in Reprint Poetry

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Jee Leong Koh's poem "If the Fire Is in Your Apartment", first published in Shit Creek Review, is now featured in Reprint Poetry. 

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Jee Leong Koh's poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.

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Jee Leong Koh and W.F. Lantry in Umbrella

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Jee Leong Koh's "The Children and the Swan" and W.F. Lantry's "All Souls, At Dawn" are now published in the Carmine Street Metrics section of the latest issue of Umbrella: A Journal of Poetry and Kindred Prose.

• Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.
• Jee Leong Koh's poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.

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Cha contributors in Mascara Literary Review

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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.
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• 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.

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Royston Tester in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore

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Royston Tester's short story "A Beijing Minute" is now published in the July 2011 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Read it here. A review of Jee Leong Koh's Seven Studies for a Self Portrait by Nicholas Liu is also featured in the issue.

• Read Royston Tester's Cha profile.
• Jee Leong Koh's poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.

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Jee Leong Koh, Lyn Lifshin and Nicholas Y.B. Wong in Pirene's Fountain

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Cha contributors Jee Leong Koh, Lyn Lifshin and Nicholas Y.B. Wong have new works published in the April 2011 issue of Pirene's Fountain: A Journal of Poetry. Read Jee Leong's "Sons and Daughters" and "Five Poems"; Lyn's "Montmartre" and "BUT INSTEAD HAS GONE INTO WOODS"; and Nicholas's "Land".

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• Jee Leong Koh's poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.
• Lyn Lifshin's poems were published in issue 4 and issue 10 of Cha
  
• See Nicholas Y.B. Wong's Cha profile.

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Jee Leong Koh in Mascara

Three poems by Jee Leong Koh, "In His Other House", "The Hospital Life" and "The Bowl", are now featured on the "New Worlds" section of Mascara Literary Review. Read the poems here.
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Jee Leong Koh's poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.
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Jee Leong Koh's Seven Studies for a Self Portrait

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Jee Leong Koh's new poetry collection Seven Studies for a Self Portrait (Bench Press) is now available for purchase on Amazon. You can read a description of the book and a sample poem "Study #5: After Frida Kahlo" here.

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Jee Leong Koh's poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.
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Jee Leong Koh in The Flea

Image by Mark Bulwinkle

Jee Leong Koh's poem "Let This Year" is now published in the twelve issue of The Flea. Read it here.

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Jee Leong Koh's poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.

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Jee Leong Koh in Mixed Nerve

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Two poems by Jee Leong Koh are published in Issue #7 of Mixed Nerve. 

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Jee Leong Koh's poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.

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Jee Leong Koh's poem nominated for a Pushcart Prize

Congratulations to Jee Leong Koh -- his poem "Childhood Punishments" has been nominated by The Shit Creek Review for a Pushcart Prize. Read the poem here.

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Jee Leong Koh's poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.
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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

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Jee Leong Koh in at Length

Jee Leong Koh's "A Lover's Recourse", a sequence of 49 ghazals, is now published in at Length. 

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Jee Leong Koh's poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.
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GASPP: a Gay Anthology of Singapore Poetry and Prose

GASPP: a Gay Anthology of Singapore Poetry and Prose is an anthology of writing by queer Singapore writers, co-edited by Ng Yi-Sheng with Dominic Chua, Jasmine Seah and Irene Oh. The book features works by several Cha contributors including Cyril Wong, Lee Yew Leong, Koh Jee Leong, O Thiam Chin and Ng Yi-Sheng. More information about the collection can be found here.

GASPP: A Gay Anthology of Singapore Poetry and Prose is reviewed on the Fridae. Reviewer June Lee writes, "[F]or better or verse, GASPP represents the brave voices of contemporary writers who voluntarily identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and otherwise queer in Singapore. [...] These voices are a collective gasp that cannot be hushed." Read the full article.
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• Ng Yi-Sheng's poetry was published in issue #8 of Cha.
• Cyril Wong's poetry was published in issue#1 of Cha.
• Yew Leong Lee's short story "The Disappearance" was published in Issue#6 of Cha.
• Jee Leong Koh's poetry was published in issue#6 of Cha.
• O Thiam Chin's short story "Pebbles" was published in Issue #8 of Cha.

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Jee Leong Koh in Zocalo Public Square

Photography courtesy Paolo Aquino

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Jee Leong Koh's new poem "I Am My Names" is published in Zocalo Public Square. Read it here.

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Jee Leong Koh's poetry was published in issue#6 of Cha.

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Jee Leong Koh in The Shit Creek Review

Jee Leong Koh has several new poems published in Issue 12 of The Shit Creek Review. Read "Childhood Punishments", "Approaching Thirtyseven", "Chapter Six: Anal Sex", "Ten Poems on the Plum Blossom" and "Digging in a bed of guilt, I grow marvelous flowers". There is also a review of Jee Leong's Equal to the Earth in the new issue.

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Jee Leong Koh's poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.

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Cha contributors in Cimarron Review

Cha contributors Billy Collins ("Two Creatures") and Jee Leong Koh ("Take heart and sing of love's recourse: the river") are featured in the new issue of Cimarron Review.

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• Billy Collins's four Asian-themed poems were published in issue #5 of Cha.
• Jee Leong Koh's poetry was published in issue#6 of Cha.

CHA contributors in the debut issue of The Walnut Literary Review

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The first issue of The Walnut Literary Review, a bimonthly online literary journal devoted to writings and the visual arts, is now launched. It features creative works by a number of Cha contributors. Visit the review's website and read poems by Jee Leong Koh, Ocean Vuong and Yew Leong Lee (Yew Leong translates poems by Jing Siang Hai from Chinese to English) and short fiction by O Thiam Chin.

• Jee Leong Koh's poetry was published in issue#6 of Cha.
• Ocean Vuong's poetry was published in issue#10 of Cha.
• Yew Leong Lee's fiction was published in issue#6 of Cha.
• O Thiam Chin's short story "Pebbles" was published in Issue #8 of Cha.

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CHA contributors in QLRS

The April 2010 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore is now live and Cha contributors Cyril Wong, Toh Hsien Min and Wena Poon have works in it. Read Cyril's poems "Fire" and "Something"; Hsien Min's review of David Oliveria' A Little Travel Story; and Wena's review of Mary O'Donnell's The Ark Builders. You can also read a review of Jee Leong Koh's Equal to the Earth by Nicholas Liu in the issue.

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• Cyril Wong's poetry was published in issue#1 of Cha.
• Toh Hsien Min's poetry was published in issue#5 of Cha.
• Wena Poon's poem "Copernicus for a Singaporean Grandmother" was published in Issue #10 of Cha.