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 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 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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Dena Rash Guzman in Ink Node

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Dena Rash Guzman's poem "We Came From A Place" is now publiehd in Ink Node. Check it out here.

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

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Dena Rash Guzman's poem "The Quarterback" is now publiehd in Ink Node. Read the poem here.

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

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Dena Rash Guzman in Ink Node

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Dena Rash Guzman's poem "An Itch Somewhere" is now publiehd in Ink Node. Read the poem here.

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

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Dena Rash Guzman in Ink Node

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Dena Rash Guzman's poem "Yeti, You Made Like Byron" is now publiehd in Ink Node. Read the poem here.

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

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Dena Rash Guzman in Ink Node

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Dena Rash Guzman's poem "Not Enough Mildreds" is now publiehd in Ink Node. Check it out here.

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