New updates on 6 Cha contributors: W.F. Lantry, Lee Herrick, Jennifer Wong, Alvin Pang, Craig Santos Perez and Bryan Thao Worra

W.F. Lantry

W.F. Lantry's short story "Arboretum" is published in the Summer 2012 issue of JMWW. 

|| Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.

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Lee Herrick

Two poems by Lee Herrick, "Van Gogh Writes to Gaugin" and "Focus Theory", are published in the Spring 2012 issue of Pebble Lake Review. 

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


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Jennifer Wong, Alvin Pang, Craig Santos Perez and Bryan Thao Worra 

As part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, Southbank Centre held a week-long Poetry Parnassus, bringing poets from all the competing Olympic nations together. You can read poems by Jennifer Wong - Hong Kong ("Glimpse"), Alvin Pang - Singapore ("When the Barbarians Arrive"), Craig Santos Perez - Guam ("from preterrain") and Bryan Thao Worra - Laos ("No Regrets"), alongside with poems by all other representing poets using the Guardian interactive map. 

|| Jennifer Wong's poem "Companions" was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She has also reviewed books for the journal.
|| Alvin Pang's poetry was published in issue #2 of Cha and his photographs were published in issue #12 and issue #16 of the journal.
|| Craig Santos Perez's review was been published in issue #9 of Cha.
|| Bryan Thao Worra's poetry was published in Issue #1 and Issue #6 of Cha. His poem "Zelkova Tree" was discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea.
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New updates on 3 Cha contributors: Ricky Garni, Alvin Pang and W.F. Lantry

Ricky Garni

Ricky Garni's poem "Sonata Eyes" (in three parts) is now available in Spinozablue. Do you think the poem has earned its last sentence 'Now: back to love.'? 

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

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Alvin Pang

Alvin Pang's Other Things and Other Poems, a collection of new and selected poems in English and Croatian translation, is now available from Books Actually. 

|| Alvin Pang's poetry was published in issue #2 of Cha and his photographs were published in issue #12 and issue #16 of the journal.

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W.F. Lantry

W.F. Lantry's new short story, "Whirlwind", which is about the discovery of witches, is now published in the California-based twice-yearly e-zine, Verdad. Read the story here.

|| Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.

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New updates on 3 Cha contributors: Alvin Pang, Arjun Rajendran and Vaughan Rapatahana

Alvin Pang

Alvin Pang's When the Barbarians Arrive, a selection of works from his previous five collections, is now available from Arc Publications! The selection ranges from love poems to satirical writing. These are poems that are "wry and shrewd, intelligent and sensitive". They are also "at once recognizably national and international in reach, offering a fresh edgy energy to the wave of urban poetry emerging from Singapore". Learn more about When the Barbarians Arrive here.

|| Alvin Pang's poetry was published in issue #2 of Cha and his photographs were published in issue #12 and issue #16 of the journal.

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Arjun Rajendran

Arjun Rajendran's poems "A reading of Kon-Tiki" and "Memories of Light" are now published in Softblow.

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


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Vaughan Rapatahana

Two poems by Vaughan Rapatahana are now published in Rem Magazine. 

|| Vaughan Rapatahana's poetry was published in Issue #8 of Cha.

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Alvin Pang's 【 What Gives Us Our Names 】

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Alvin Pang's What Gives Us Our Names (Math Papers Press, 2011), a collection of prose, is now available.  Learn more about the book here. 

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Alvin Pang's poetry was published in issue #2 of Cha and his photographs were published in issue #12 of the journal.

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Alvin Pang's essay "TERRA INCOGNITA"

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Read the essay "TERRA INCOGNITA" by Cha contributor Alvin Pang, featured on Civic Life. In it, "he writes of a geography of Singapore mapped through personal reminiscences."

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Alvin Pang's poetry was published in issue #2 of Cha and his photographs were published in issue #12 of the journal.

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ceriph presents - SYNÆSTHESIA: drawing words, reading pictures

[click the image to go to the website]

• Ng Yi-Sheng's poetry was published in issue #8 of Cha.
• Alvin Pang's poetry was published in issue #2 of Cha and his photographs were published in issue #12 of the journal.

NUS Literary Society Evening of Poetry and Music 26 Feb. 2011

From their website:

The annual NUS Literary Society Evening of Poetry and Music will feature upcoming writers and literary figures, interspersed with live musical performances from NUS music groups. Also included in the EPM will be the prize presentation for the ’10/’11 Creative Writing Competition and readings by the winners.

Alvin Pang and Ovidia Yu, judges of this year's competition, will appear as special guests of the evening. More information here.

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Alvin Pang's poetry was published in Issue #2 of Cha and his photography was published in Issue #12 of Cha.

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What is the new dominant language of the internet?

According to Nicholas Ostler in The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel  (2010):

The online communities that use languages other than English have grown meteorically in the first decade of the twenty-first century. From 2000 to 2009, the fastest growing languages on the Net (in numbers of users) were Arabic (twentyfold), Chinese (twelvefold), Portuguese (ninefold), Spanish (sevenfold), and French (sixfold). (pp. 263-264)

See more from this book.

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And according to the infographic below, Chinese will become the dominant internet language in five years. But I am not entirely convinced, are you? 

Click image to enlarge.

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(Thank you, Alvin, for drawing my attention to this. The image is from Gizdomo via. The Next Web.) 

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Meet Alvin Pang

Earlier, we unveiled the beautiful cover of our September 2010 issue here. Apart from "Wall in Namdaemun Market, Seoul", we will also be publishing four other photographs (three from Singapore and one from China) by Alvin, whose poems were published in the second issue (February 2008) of Cha. When discussing a possible title for this group of pictures, Alvin mentioned "copy.paste" (and later, "copy.paste.cut"), "e pluribus unum" and "sama sama" because 'the images all seem to have to do with repetition, or an assemblage of similar but not identical units'. In the end, however, we chose "We Belong Together" as the title. Alvin wrote: 'it evokes the idea of a set/collection/family of units. Call me sentimental!' Our response was: 'Don't you know - Cha is overall quite sentimental ....'

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Bio: Alvin Pang is a lifelong image junkie and trafficker, but usually smuggles them through poems. A poet, writer, editor (and occasional photographer) based in Singapore, he has appeared in major festivals, anthologies and media around the world. A Fellow of the University of Iowa International Writing Program (2002), he was Young Artist of the Year (Literature) in 2005, and snagged the Singapore Youth Award (Arts and Culture) in 2007. His latest books include City of Rain (Poems, Ethos Books), and TUMASIK: Contemporary Writing from Singapore (Autumn Hill Books: USA 2009). He's a Canon loyalist but has recently flirted with iPhonography. He has always needed glasses.

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• View Alvin Pang's photography in Cha.
• Who else is in Issue 12?

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Alvin Pang will appear in Helsinki on 28 August

Alvin Pang will be appearing in a literary event called "Poetry Mash!" in Helsinki on 28 August, 2010. More information here.

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Alvin Pang has had three poems published in issue#2 of Cha.

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Alvin Pang in Asia Writes

Cha contributor Alvin Pang has three poems, "the bridge", "so many ways our fathers mark us" and "in transit", featured in Asia Writes.

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Alvin Pang has had three poems published in issue#2 of Cha.

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Singapore Writers' Festival 2009

Come and join the Singapore Writers' Festival this year and meet Cha contributors Alvin Pang, Cyril Wong, Daren Shiau, Leung Ping-kwan, Ng Yi-Sheng and O Thiam Chin.

• Alvin Pang has had three poems published in issue#2 of Cha.
• Cyril Wong's poetry has been published in issue#1 of Cha.
• Daren Shiau's prose poems have been published in issue #5 of Cha.
• Leung Ping-kwan's poetry has been published in issue #1 of Cha.
• Ng Yi-Sheng's poetry has been published in issue #8 of Cha.
• O Thiam Chin's fiction has been published in issue #8 of Cha.

Alvin Pang in The Wolf

Alvin Pang's new poem "Thirteen ways of looking at a snowscape" is now published in the August 2009 issue of The Wolf.

Alvin Pang has had three poems published in issue#2 of Cha.

Mascara Literary Review 5

The fifth issue of Mascara Literary Review (editors: Boey Kim Cheng and Michelle Cahill) is now live. Read a fine selection of poetry here. Cha contributors Michelle Cahill and Cyril Wong (here and here) also have review articles published in the issue. One of the reviews by Cyril Wong is on Cha contributor Ouyang Yu's The Kingsbury Tale. There is also an interview with Cha contributor, Alvin Pang.

• Michelle Cahill's poetry was published in issue #2 of Cha.
• Alvin Pang's poetry was published in issue#2 of Cha.
• Cyril Wong's poetry was published in issue#1 of Cha
• Ouyang Yu's poetry was published in issue #4 of Cha.

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Alvin Pang in Soundings

Alvin Pang has new work published in the new issue of Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture.






Alvin Pang has had three poems published in issue#2 (February 2008) of Cha.