New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Mani Rao, Grace V.S. Chin, Ankur Agarawal, Sushma Joshi and Nicholas Y.B. Wong

Mani Rao, Grace V.S. Chin, Ankur Agarawal, Sushma Joshi

A new issue of Mascara Literary Review, edited by Michelle Cahill, is out. It features poetry by Mani Rao and Grace Chin, fiction by Ankur Agarawal and creative non-fiction by Sushma Joshi. 

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

|| Grace V. S. Chin's poetry was published in Issue #4 and Issue #5 of Cha. Her poem "Clotheslines" was discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea. 

|| Read Ankur Agarwal's Cha profile.

|| Sushma Joshi's fiction has been published in issue #3 of Cha.

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Nicholas Y.B. Wong

Four stunning poems by Nicholas Y.B. Wong, "TOYS "Я" US", "Blown", "American Standard" and "Five Steps on Expository Writing: Origin of Hydrophilia", are included in the Fall 2012 issue of superstition [review]. 

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

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New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Nabina Das, Reid Mitchell, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Ricky Garni and Vinita Agrawal

Nabina Das

"Eyes", a short story by Nabina Das, is now available in Open Road Review. A squall gets the power out.

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

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Reid Mitchell

"Sea Shells", a new poem by Reid Mitchell, is featured in Reprint Poetry. What if the circus arrives?

|| Read Reid Mitchell's Cha profile.
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Mia Ayumi Malhotra

Mia Ayumi Malhotra's  "[A MECHANICAL BEEPING FILLS THE SPACE]" is available in DIAGRAM. A woman touches her eyes with a white tissue.

|| Mia Ayumi Malhotra's poetry was published in issue #15 of Cha. 
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Ricky Garni

Ricky Garni's poem "Barbara Stanwyck" is available in Commas and Colons. Would do anything to please a man.

 || 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 and was discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea.

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Vinita Agrawal

Vinita Agrawal's poem "Mortakka"is included in the anthology entitled The Poetry of Yoga, which was released to mark the special date of 12/12/12 by One Community. More information about The Poetry of Yoga can be found here. Half the proceeds from the book will go to One Community. 

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

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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 5 Cha contributors: Leanne Dunic, O Thiam Chin, Ouyang Yu, Toh Hsien Min and Wendy Xu

Leanne Dunic, O Thiam Chin, Ouyang Yu, Toh Hsien Min

It is always exciting to read a new issue of QLRS. In the current issue, you can read "Our Greatest Years Have Passed Like Flowers", a poem by Leanne Dunic;  "The Years", a short story by O Thiam Chin; "A Room for Three", a short story by Ouyang Yu; and a review by Toh Hsien Min. Read the entire new issue of QLRS here.

|| Leanne Dunic's poetry was published in Issue #16 of Cha.

|| O Thiam Chin's short story "Pebbles" was published in Issue #8 of Cha.

|| Ouyang Yu's poem "Bad English" was published in issue #4 of Cha and analysed on A Cup of Fine Tea.

|| Toh Hsien Min's poetry was published in issue #5 of Cha.

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Wendy Xu

Wendy Xu in the new edition of Connotation Press - "Reasons People Go to the Theatre", "Unapologetic Poem" and "Something Else Is Burning So You Don't Have To". There is also an interview with Wendy. 

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

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New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Matthew Wong, Reid Mitchell, Ricky Garni, Nikesh Murali and Patrick Donnelly

Matthew Wong and Reid Mitchell

The Fall 2012 issue of Unshod Quills is now available! Matthew Wong is the featured artist and , two new poems by Reid Mitchell, "LIT BY FUJIAN MOONLIGHT" and "WOMAN WITH A MAN’S HEART", are included in the new issue.

|| Matthew Wong's photography was published in Issue #15 of and Issue # 17 of Cha.

|| Read Reid Mitchell's Cha profile.

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Ricky Garni

Ricky Garni's "Boris Karloff" poems are published in the latest issue of six finch. 

||  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 and was discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea.

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Nikesh Murali

Nikesh Murali's story "Commonwealth games", which won the 4th place for Katha prize 2012, is now available online at India Currents Magazine. WARNING: There is graphic violence in this story.

|| Nikesh Murali's fiction was published in issue #8 of Cha.

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Patrick Donnelly

Patrick Donnelly's exquisite new poem "Throne Verse" is now published in Plume. You will find many of the lines stunning, and I particular like these:

sometimes viewed from our bed, which / either went unmade or was made so particularly // as the only task I could complete all day / that I would not let my love help // and accused him / of not knowing how.

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

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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 7 Cha contributors: Ivy Alvarez, Bob Bradshaw, Arjun Rajendran, Kaitlin Solimine, W.F. Lantry, Murli Melwani and Ricky Garni

Ivy Alvarez

"Tumbling", a poem by Ivy Alvarez, is now available in the August/September edition of Our Own Voice. 

|| See Ivy Alvarez's Cha profile. 

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Bob Bradshaw and Arjun Rajendran

Bob Bradshaw's poem "Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear" and Arjun Rajendran's poem "First Day at a New School" are now publsihed in the August 2012 issue of Red River Review. 

|| Read Bob Bradshaw's Cha profile.

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

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Kaitlin Solimine

Kaitlin Solimine's invaluable personal essay "The Chinese Expat in Exile" is now published in The World of Chinese. 

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

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W.F. Lantry

W.F. Lantry's poem "Autumn" is featured in the Fall 2012 issue of Stone Voices. Learn more about the publication here.

||  Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.

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Murli Melwani

A new short story by Murli Melwani entitled "Those Seasons of Contentment" is included in the August 2012 issue of Open Road Review. 'Between the marble and kite seasons was the tops season'...

|| Murli Melwani's fiction "Freezing Time" is forthcoming in Issue #18 of Cha, due out in late September 2012.

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Ricky Garni

Ricky Garni's new poems "The Really Lone Ranger" and "A Look Inside" are published in The Bakery yesterday and today respectively. You can also listen to Ricky's recordings of the two pieces on the Bakery website. Don't you think "A Look Inside" is very interesting? Where does Ricky get all these ideas? A third poem is forthcoming tomorrow. 

|| 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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