New Updates on 5 Cha contributors: Ricky Garni, Donna Vorreyer, Christopher Anthony Leibow, Bob Bradshaw and Murli Melwani

Ricky Garni

Ricky Garni's four new poems "Well If That's The Way It Must Be, OK", "Stroll by Numbers", "Magic" and "1961" are now published in the latest edition of Softblow.

|| 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. His poem "Tarsier" was published in Issue #18 of Cha,

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Donna Vorreyer

Donna Vorreyer has two new poems, "Bringing in the Sheaves" and "Mailing a Snowflake", featured in the Fall 2012 issue of Apple Valley Review. 

|| Donna Vorreyer's poetry was published in Issue #17 of Cha. 

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Christopher Anthony Leibow

A poem by Christopher Anthony Leibow , "Abandon", has been translated into Crimean Tartar and published in Nazar Look. You can read the original and the translation as well as an interview with Christopher, alongside with some of his art pieces here.

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

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Bob Bradshaw

Bob Bradshaw's poem "Visiting Mother's Grave" is now available in the August 2012 issue of Drowning in My Own Fears.

|| Read Bob Bradshaw's Cha profile.

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Murli Melwani

Murli Melwani's real life story about his father, "An Exile All His Life", is now available in Under the Banyan Tree.

|| 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 4 Cha contributors: Christopher Leibow, Nicholas Y.B. Wong, Kaitlin Solimine and Jason Lee

Christopher Anthony Leibow

Christopher Anthony Leibow's "I will draw two ravens" (in five poems) is now available in Reprint Poetry, a new publication which is interested in resurrecting previously published poetry.

|| Christopher Anthony Leibow's artwork is forthcoming in the June 2012 issue of Cha. 


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Nicholas Y.B. Wong and Kaitlin Solimine 

Nicholas Y.B. Wong's poems "An Incredibly Brief Morning Directory to the City" (pp. 52-53) and "Mirr-man-or" (pp. 104-105) and Kaitlin Solimine's short story "Flying Lesson" (pp. 84-98) are included in the new edition of Two Thirds North. Download the entire issue here (pdf). 

||  See Nicholas Y.B. Wong's Cha's profile here.
|| Kaitlin Solimine's fiction was published in Issue #14 of Cha.

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Jason Lee

Congratulations to Jason Lee! his poetry manuscript has been shortlisted for the Melita Hume Poery Prize, run by Eyewear Publishing. 

|| Read Jason Lee's Cha profile. His poem "45 Belgrave Square", published in Issue #6 of the journal, was discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea.

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