Cha's 2013 Pushcart Nominations

We at Cha would like to announce our nominations for the 2012 Pushcart Prize:

• "Sonia Wants to Rent An Apartment" by José Manuel Sevilla (March 2012)
• "When I Was the Chinaman's Granddaughter-In-Law" by Dena Rash Guzman (March 2012)
• "Winter Seclusion" by John Givens (June 2012)
• "Change Your Heart; Look Around You" by Daryl Yam (June 2012)
• "Huang Yong Ping" by Joshua Burns (September 2012)
• "Unpacking" by Nicholas Francis (November 2012)

Congratulations to the above nominees. We wish you the best of luck and thank you for letting us publish your wonderful work.
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New updates on 6 Cha contributors: Patrick Donnelly, Mag Tan Yee Mei, Vinita Agrawal, Wendy Xu, Nicolette Wong and Dena Rash Guzman

Patrick Donnelly

Patrick Donnelly's "In Which I Explain Why I Set the Fire" and "Poem Contradicting the Previous Poem" are now published in Plume. Read the poems here. There was no fire. There was never any fire.

||  Patrick Donnelly and Stephen D. Miller's poetry was published in issue #8 of Cha.

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Mag Tan Yee Mei and Vinita Agrawal 

Mag Tan Yee Mei's two stories "The Musician and the Muse" and "The Lampblacker" and Vinita Agrawal's poem "Thoughts" are now available in the latest issue of Fox Chase Review. 

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


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Wendy Xu

Three poems by Wendy Xu - "YOU THINK YOU ARE SOMETHING LESS REAL THAN YOU ARE", "WE ARE BOTH SURE TO DIE" and "WE ARE BOTH SURE TO DIE" - are now published in the new edition of Diagram. 

|| Wendy Xu's poetry was published in Issue #16 of Cha. 

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Nicolette Wong and Dena Rash Guzman

Nicolette Wong's "The Runaway Conductor" and Dena Rash Guzman's "Pages Apocalypse" and "Moon Baby Eats Lunch In Shanghai" are included in the September 2012 issue of Thrush Poetry Journal. 

|| Nicolette Wong's short stories were published in Issue #1 and Issue #6 of Cha.
|| Dena Rash Guzman's poetry was published in Issue #15 and Issue #16 of Cha.


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New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Ricky Garni, Dena Rash Guzman, Kaitlin Solimine, Greg Santos and W.F. Lantry

Ricky Garni 

A 'miniature' by Ricky Garni titled "KO-AK" is now available in Ginger Piglet Magazine. As the man himself wisely writes, 'That's right. The sweet piglet is made of ginger.' Don't you want to smile to that?

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


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Dena Rash Guzman

Dena Rash Guzman's poem "checklist" is now available in Ink Node. define the short version of a long hoax... 

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

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Kaitlin Solimine

An excerpt from Kaitlin Solimine's first novel, Empire of Glass, is now available in Guernica Magazine! Read it here. Kaitlin won the 2012 Dzanc Books/Disquiet International Literary Program Award, selected by Colson Whitehead.

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



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Greg Santos 

Three poems by Greg Santos are now available in have you seen my whale  #2.   Read "what an age we live in", "a deep unimaginable sadness" and "help!" here.  Don't you want to send Greg an email to make him happy again?

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

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W.F. Lantry 

Congratulations to W.F. Lantry! His poetry collection, The Structure of Desire (Little Red Tress Press), which contains 108 poems of love, passion, mystery and devotion, is now launched! The book has a foreword by Jean-Yves Solinga, a prologue, introduction to each poem and a sixteen-page glossary. Learn more about The Structure of Desire and Bill's work here.

||Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.

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New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Marc Vincenz, Maurice Oliver, W. F. Lantry, Todd Swift and Dena Rash Guzman

Marc Vincenz and Maurice Oliver

The June 2012 issue of Eyesocket Journal, a monthly e-zine featuring poetry and photography/artwork and edited by former Cha contributor Maurice Oliver, is now out! Featured in this issue are four poems by Marc Vincenz, "Moon Trees, a Mouldering", "Black Skies", "The Uh-Huh" and "Barcelona B a c k h a n d".

|| See Marc Vincenz's Cha profile.  
|| Maurice Oliver's poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha


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W.F. Lantry

........................................."even the slow / progress of stones reflects a whispered prayer." -from W.F. Lantry's "Sailing Stones" 

W.F. Lantry's four new poems, "Songe", "Six Thousand Steps", "Romance" and "Sailing Stones" are now published in Escape into Life, each poem is accompanied by a beautiful photograph. 

|| Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.

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Todd Swift

"I Go Out in My Suit, Too White for this Weather" and "The Morning after Speaking to an Eighty-four Year-old Blind Woman, on the Loss of Her virginity", two new poems by Todd Swift, are published in the début issue of The Battersea Review. Read them here. 

||  Todd Swift's poems were published in issue #2, issue #3 and issue #11 of Cha.

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Dena Rash Guzman

Dena Rash Guzman's new fiction "Belva’s Meat Market" is available in Issue #29 of Ducts, a webzine of personal stories. Dena's story is loosely based on true events.

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

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New updates on 3 Cha contributors: Robert E. Wood, Marc Vincenz and Dena Rash Guzman

Robert E. Wood

Robert E. Wood's poem "Breathless" is published in the May 2012 issue of Blue Fifth Review. 'She has come to Paris to study art / and her own reflection.' 

|| See Robert E. Wood's Cha profile. 


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Marc Vincenz

Marc Vincenz's poem "The Policeman Who Came to See You", previously published in Prime Number Magazine, is now up at October Babies. What does the policeman want? Who is he asking after?

||  See Marc Vincenz's Cha profile.  

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Dena Rash Guzman

Dena Rash Guzman's "I, I, I." is now available in Ink Node. The persona of the poem liked street animals. Why? Find out here. 

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

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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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New updates on 4 Cha contributors: Marc Vincenz, Changming Yuan, Craig Santos Perez and Dena Rash Guzman

Marc Vincenz and Changming Yuan

The new issue of Mad Hatters' Review is now out! It is a tribute issue to Carol Novack (founder of MHR) and is edited by Cha contributor Marc Vincenz. The issue features 100+ writers, poets, artists, musicians and tightrope walkers as well as work by Carol that has never been seen before. Changming Yuan has two pieces (audio recordings) in the issue.

|| See Marc Vincenz's Cha profile.
|| Changming Yuan's poetry was published in Issue #13 of Cha. 

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Craig Santos Perez

Craig Santos Perez's poetry collection From Unincorporated Territory was chosen for 60 for 60, a list of sixty books that represent, promote, and showcase Guam and Micronesia. This list was compiled by the University of Guam's Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Library in celebration of University's 60th Anniversary. See the full list here.

|| Craig Santos Perez's review was been published in issue #9 of Cha.
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Dena Rash Guzman

Read Dena Rash Guzman's poem "Liberty and Doorknobs" on H.A.L. Publishing. 

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

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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Rumjhum Biswas

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

 || See Rumjhum Biswas's Cha profile. 

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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.

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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.

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New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Dena Rash Guzman, Craig Santos Perez, Marc Vincenz, W.F. Lantry and Ocean Vuong

Dena Rash Guzman

Read Dena Rash Guzman's poem "Bad Had God" in ink node.

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

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Craig Santos Perez

Craig Santos Perez's poem "Does Huam Suck?" is published in the latest issue of VOLT. This is a poem from Craig's fourth, unwritten book. 

Craig Santos Perez's review was been published in issue #9 of Cha.

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Marc Vincenz

 Marc Vincenz's poem "Psychotropics" , previous published in Pull of the Gravitons (Right Hand Pointing, 2012), is featured on October Babies. 
Read Marc Vincenz's Cha profile.

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W.F. Lantry

W.F. Lantry's small poem, "Exchange", which concerns the gifts of Spring, and other things, is now available at Extract(s), your daily dose of literature. 

Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.   

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Ocean Vuong

 A Pocket Broadside (i.e. literature that fits in your pocket!) by Ocean Vuong — a miniature poem titled "Mother Tongue" — is now available on Lantern Review and Kartika Review's Tumblr. To see all of the Pocket Broadsides they've posted so far, visit the project's website. 

Ocean Vuong's poem "Paramour" was published in issue#10 of Cha; the poem has been nominated for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2010.

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