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: 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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New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Ocean Vuong, Nicholas Y.B. Wong, Ricky Garni, Marc Vincenz and Eddie Tay

Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong's poem "Prayer for the Newly Damned" is now published in the September/October 2012 issue of the American Poetry Review.  

|| 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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Nicholas Y.B. Wong

Nicholas Y.B. Wong's "Privilege of Morning" is included in the latest edition of the Notre Dame Review. While you can't read the poem online, you can read "Ode to Objects", "Mirr-man-or" and "Epoch of Metallic Migration", which are available are available on the nd[re]view website (the online companion of the Notre Dame Review). Read the three poems and Nicholas's commentary here.

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

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Ricky Garni

Two poems by Ricky Garni, "Be Prepared" and "It's Not A Cat's World", are published in the August 2012 issue of Subliminal Interiors. Which one do you like more? 

|| Ricky Garni's poem "Literal Translation of Korean Ideograms" was published in Issue #16 of Cha and creatively responded on A Cup of Fine Tea. Ricky has a poem forthcoming in the September 2012 issue of the journal.

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Marc Vincenz

Marc Vincenz's poems "Yet Another Reincarnation" and "Apples" are published in issue 55 of Tears in the Fence. The issue is a 176 page bumper issue and features the work of many talented writers and poets. Learn more about Tears in the Fence here. 

||  See Marc Vincenz's Cha profile. 

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Eddie Tay

Congratulations to our very own Eddie Tay! His poetry collection The Mental Life of Cities is 1 of 4 books shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize this year. Good luck, Eddie! The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony later this year.

Leonard Ng's This Mortal World, which we reviewed in Cha, is also on the shortlist.

|| Eddie Tay is Reviews Editor of Cha.

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New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Ricky Garni, Nicholas Y.B. Wong, W.F. Lantry, Marc Vincenz and Kristine Ong Muslim

Ricky Garni

Ricky Garni's delightful poem "Wednesday", first published in his collection The Eternal Journals of Crispy Flotilla, is now reprinted in the newly-designed Reprint Poetry.  

||  Ricky Garni's poem "Literal Translation of Korean Ideograms" was published in Issue #16 of Cha and creatively responded on A Cup of Fine Tea. Ricky has a poem forthcoming in the September 2012 issue of the journal.

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Nicholas Y.B. Wong

reNicholas Y.B. Wong's poem "An Incredibly Brief Morning Directory to the City", which appropriates a number of Tang poems, is now available in the new issue of Poecology.

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

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W.F. Lantry

W.F. Lantry's personal and fun essay, "Jewels, Blood and Beeswax", is up at Stymie Magazine. Bill's essay is part of their Why I Write series. 

||  Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.

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Marc Vincenz

Marc Vincenz's poems "Inflation Goosed" and "The Ex-wife" are now available in On Barcelona. 

||  See Marc Vincenz's Cha profile. 

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Kristine Ong Muslim

Congratulations to Kristine Ong Muslim! Her new poetry collection, Grim Series (Popcorn Press), is now published! You can learn more about this book and read some sample excerpts from Kristine's website.

||  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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CHA's Best of the Net 2012 Nominations

We are happy to announce that the following pieces of work, selected from the July 2011, November 2011, March 2012 and June 2012 issues of Cha, have been nominated by us for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2012 (published by Sundress). Congratulations to these writers and good luck!

|| Arthur Leung, "Earthen Houses" (issue #14, July 2011) || Read an analysis of the poem here ||

|| Robert Masterson, "To the State Electrical Worker" (issue #15, November 2011) || Read an analysis of the poem here ||

|| José Manuel Sevilla, "Sonia Wants to Rent an Apartment" (issue #16, March 2012) || First prize winner of Cha's "Encountering Poetry" Contest || 

|| Ricky Garni, "Literal Translation of Korean Ideograms" (issue #16, March 2012) || Read a creative response to the poem here ||

|| Julian Stannard, "Winston and Candy" (issue #17, June 2012) ||

|| Daryl Yam, "Change Your Heart; Look Around You" (issue #17, June 2012) || 

|| Michael Slaby, "The Beautiful Branca" (issue #14, July 2011) || 

|| Chris Galvin Nguyen, "The Flood Season" (issue #16, March 2012) || 

|| Helena Hu, "The Last Resident" (issue #17, June 2012) || 

|| John Givens, "Winter Seclusion" (issue #17, June 2012) || 

Iris A. Law's "Circumnavigation" (issue #7) was selected for publication in Best of the Net 2009. Lillian Kwok's "Departure" (issue #8) and Elizabeth Weinberg's "The Earth That Stands Before Us" (issue #12) were selected as a Finalist in 2010 and 2011 respectively.