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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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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