New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Nicholas Y.B. Wong, Marc Vincenz, Berit Ellingsen, W.F. Lantry and Murli Melwani

Nicholas Y.B. Wong

Nicholas Y.B. Wong's poem "Common" and its Chinese translation are now published in the Fall 2012 issue of The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review.

|| Read Nicholas Y.B. Wong's Cha's profile here.

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Marc Vincenz

Marc Vincenz's poem "Similar" can now be read on October Babies.
and trees whisper pheromones, 

|| Read Marc Vincenz's Cha profile. 

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Berit Ellingsen

Berit Ellingsen's "How These Games Work" is featured in Pure Slush. 

|| Read Berit Ellingsen's Cha profile.  

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W.F. Lantry

Two poems by W.F. Lantry, "To Have and Have Not" and "Oz in the Jungle" are included in Now Culture's "Poetry At the Movies" issue. Remember to listen to the lovely recordings of the poems as well.

|| Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.

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Murli Melwani

Murli Melwani's short story "Teesta Holiday" (pp. 71-77) is now available in the Fall issue of Mount Hope Magazine.

|| Murli Melwani's fiction "Freezing Time" was published in Issue #18 of Cha.

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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 7 Cha contributors: Aditi Rao, Arjun Rajendran, Changming Yuan, Nabina Das, Anuradha Vijayakrishnan, Berit Ellingsen and Birgit Linder

Aditi Rao, Arjun Rajendran, Changming Yuan and Nabina Das

Four Cha contributors have new works published in the August 2012 issue of The Four Quarters Magazine. Read Nabina Das's short story "Asking Anandi" (pp. 8-10), six poems by Aditi Rao (pp. 93-96), Changming Yuan's poems "Natural Confrontations" (p. 108) and "January 2: for Yuan Hongqi" (p. 109) and Arjun Rajendran's poem "Over a Cup of Coffee" (pp. 114-115) in the new issue.

|| Aditi Rao's poem "Reunion" will be published in issue #16 of Cha.

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

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

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

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Anuradha Vijayakrishnan and Changming Yuan 

Anuradha Vijayakrishnan and Changming Yuan have poems included in the Summer 2012 issue of Conversation Poetry Magazine. Read Anuradha's "Curtains" (p. 20) and Changming's "The Mouse, A Mouse" (p. 21) and "SAWS: A Seasonal Poem" (pp. 22-23) here.

|| Anuradha Vijayakrishnan's poem "Suicide Note" was published in Issue #10 of Cha and discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea. 

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

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Berit Ellingsen

Berit Ellingsen's prose poem "A Catalog of Planets" is available in the latest edition of Negative Suck.   

||  Read Berit Ellingsen's Cha profile.

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Birgit Linder

Congratulations to Birgit Linder! Her poetry collection has been named a semi-finalist of the Proverse Prize (2012). Birgit, born in Germany and educated in Germany and the USA, has previously lived in Taiwan and China. She is currently teaching in Hong Kong. You can see the full list of semi-finalists here. The finalists will be announced on 20 November 2012 and the winner (or two joint-winners) will be announced in the Spring of 2013. Congratulations, Birgit! And good luck!

|| Birgit Linder's poetry was published in Issue # 17 of Cha and her photography sequence "Urban Philosophies" is forthcoming in Issue #18 of the journal, due out in late September 2012. 

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New updates on 6 Cha contributors: Alison Wong, Vinita Agrawal, Berit Ellingsen, Mani Rao, Rheea Mukherjee and Sumana Roy

Alison Wong

Alison Wong, a poet and novelist whose first novel As the Earth Turns Silver won the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Award for Fiction and selected by the New Zealand Listener and the Sunday Star-Times as one of the best books published in 2009, will be reading from her book and discussing it at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival next month. Learn more about the event here.

Alison's poem "There's Always Things To Come Back to the Kitchen For" was published in Issue #5 of Cha and discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea. Her As the Earth Turns Silver was reviewed in Cha.

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Vinita Agrawal

Vinita Agrawal's poem "Nine-Bow Rain" is hotly available in Spark Magazine. Vinita's poem "Textile Homeland" and a review of The Poetry of Yoga were also published in Spark.

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

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Berit Ellingsen

A prose poem by Berit Ellingsen, titled "Polaris", is now part of writer xTx’s Supermodel Summer project. Read Berit's poem here.  

||  Read Berit Ellingsen's Cha profile. 

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Mani Rao

In this review of The HapperCollins Book of English Poetry (ed. Sudeep Sen), which includes post-1950s Indian poetry in English, you can read the poem "Shiva's Dig" by Mani Rao. Read the full review and Mani's poem here.

||  Mani Rao's poetry was published in Issue #1 of Cha.

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Rheea Mukherjee

The Spring 2012 issue of the Southern Humanities Review is now out and Rheea Mukherjee has a fiction piece, titled "Help With Packing", is included in it. Learn more about SHR and the new issue here.

|| Rheea Mukherjee's poetry was published in Issue #15 of Cha.

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Sumana Roy

"Planchette", a short story by Sumana Roy, is now published in a special edition of the Daily Star, based in Bangladesh.

|| See Sumana Roy's Cha profile.

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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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New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Fiona Sze-Lorrain, J.H. Martin, Berit Ellingsen, Marc Vincenz and J.A. Tyler

Fiona Sze-Lorrain and J.H. Martin

Fiona Sze-Lorrain's poem "Pearl", first published in Tiger's Eye (Fall/Winter 2009), is now reprinted in New Mystics. Also available in New Mystics are J.H. Martin's eight gorgeous poems, "An Ancient Song", "Nothing & All", "Shadows of Dust", "Drinking Alone", "Zeit", "Holograms Are We", "Tell Them, Tell Them All" and "Hasta La Primavera". I liked all of them and my favourites are "Shadows of Dust" and "Hasta La Primavera".

|| Fiona Sze-Lorrain's poetry was published in Issue 12 of Cha and her book Water The Moon is reviewed in the same issue.
|| J.H. Martin's poetry was published in Issue #15 of Cha.

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Berit Ellingsen

Berit Ellingsen's "The Rain on Titan", an excerpt from her The Empty City, is new featured in New Sun Rising, which publishes stories for Japan.  

|| Read Berit Ellingsen's Cha profile.


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Marc Vincenz

Marc Vincenz's poem "The Sour the Sweetens the Bitter", previously published in Durable Goods, is now featured on October Babies. The poem offers this interesting image: 'a slice of lemon / almost in almost out'.

|| See Marc Vincenz's Cha profile.
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J.A. Tyler

June is Novella Month. Read a definition of the form by expert J.A. Tyler here.

 || J.A. Tyler's fiction was published in Issue #1 of Cha.

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New updates on 4 Cha contributors: Nicolette Wong, Greg Santos, Berit Ellingsen and Sumana Roy

Nicolette Wong

Nicolette Wong's prose poem "Pastoral Hide & Seek" is now published in the sixth issue of YB Poetry (themed "Plants"). Nicolette's piece opens with this evocative sentence: 'Little bird, take me to the kimono girls.' Read the whole poem here. 

||  Nicolette Wong's short stories were published in Issue #1 and Issue #6 of Cha.

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Greg Santos

Greg Santos's new found poetry, which is derived from a simultaneously 'funny' and 'condescending' comment left by a spam bot, is now in Internet Poetry.

|| 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 mini-essay entitled "Short Stories are Like Gems", is now up on the Atticus Review blog. The essay is written in celebration of National Short Story Month.

|| Read Berit Ellingsen's Cha profile.

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Sumana Roy

Sumana Roy's essay "We Are All Mamata Now", which centres on Mamata Banerjee, Bengal and Bangla is now published in the June 2012 issue of Caravan. Read the full article here.

|| See Sumana Roy's Cha profile.

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New updates on 4 Cha contributors: Jennifer Wong, Greg Santos, Berit Ellingsen and Dena Rash Guzman

Jennifer Wong

Jennifer Wong's poem "Queen's Pier Central" (originally published in her collection Summer Cicadas) is reprinted in Apple Daily, a Hong Kong Chinese-language newspaper (but the poem is in English!). The poem is published alongside an article on Jenny, who will be representing Hong Kong and reading her poetry at Poetry Parnassus (part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad). Read the poem and the article on Jenny's blog.

|| Jennifer Wong's poem "Companions" was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She has also reviewed books for the journal.

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Greg Santos

Greg Santos's "Facebook Status Found Poem" can now be found in Internet Poetry. As the title of the piece suggests, Greg culled this poem from his Facebook friends' status updates. Interestingly, it has this line: 'Crispin Best is an English dude.' Indeed he is! Read the rest of the poem here.

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

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Berit Ellingsen

"Crane Legs", a poetic flash story by Berit Ellingsen, can be read on FlashFlood, a project which celebrates Flash Fiction Day. 

|| Read Berit Ellingsen's Cha profile.

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Dena Rash Guzman

A  powerful poem by Dena Rash Guzman, "the greatest famine in history", is now published in Ink Node. '[H]e snapped and tanks shot concrete like semen', 'children died / eating pond scum' and 'mao souvenir / alarm clock will never tell time' are just some of the memorable images/ideas from the poem. Read the whole poem here.

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

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