New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Wendy Xu, Nicholas Y.B. Wong, W.F. Lantry, Alistair Noon and Rumjhum Biswas

Wendy Xu 

"I WAS NOT EVEN BORN WHEN YOU BECAME AN EXPERT", a poem co-written by Wendy Xu and Nick Sturm, is published in the Summer 2012 issue of Birdfeast. You know, we are all made of very small particles...

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

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Nicholas Y.B. Wong

Nicholas Y.B. Wong's poem "Buddha’s Public Lecture: Who is Afraid of Ai" is now available in the fourth issue of Buddhist Poetry Review. How much do you know about the Chinese word 'love'?

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

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W.F. Lantry

W.F. Lantry's topical poem "Derecho", which concerns the recent storm, is now published in The New Verse News. Yes, and even now butterflies resume their dance...

|| Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.

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Alistair Noon

Alistair Noon's Earth Records and three other publications are extensively, intensively and generously (stealing Alistair's words) reviewed by Peter Riley at The Fortnightly Review. I am so glad to see this review - I am a big fan of TFR! 

|| Alistair Noon's poetry and creative non-fiction were published in issue #2 of Cha. His poem "The Expat Partner: An Email" is discussed here.

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Rumjhum Biswas

Two pieces of work by Rumjhum Biswas were featured in the June 2012 issue of Spark. Read Rumjhum's flash story "Rainbow" and poem "The Day Heaven Came Down". What to do when Heaven came down / and scoop you up / in copious soft-as-cloud arms?

|| See Rumjhum Biswas's Cha profile. 

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New updates on 6 Cha contributors: Les Wicks, Louie Crew, Sumana Roy, Rumjhum Biswas, Matthew Wong and W.F. Lantry

Les Wicks and Louie Crew

This is not really new news but I've just noticed that Les Wicks and Louie Crew have poetry featured in the latest issue of Otolith. Read Les Wicks's "Rime" and Louie Crew's three poems "Found in a Station of the Atlanta Subway", "Nativity, #2" and "Poem My Husband Left on our Answering Machine at 3:30 a.m". Squeeze yourself for me.

|| Les Wicks's poetry was published in Issue #8 of Cha. 
|| Louie Crew's three poems were published in issue #7 of Cha. 

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Sumana Roy

Sumana Roy's essay on eating flowers, entitled "Flowers You Can Chew", is now published in Forbes India Magazine. A thing of beauty also offers food for the palate. Read the piece here. 

|| See Sumana Roy's Cha profile.

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Rumjhum Biswas

Rumjhum Biswas's poem "Missive" is available in Helter Skelter. The poem was written in response to a picture of a telephone. What was time? Rumjhum gives you some ideas in the poem.

|| See Rumjhum Biswas's Cha profile. 
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Matthew Wong

Matthew Wong can be read on the  website of the course "Visual Ethnography: Critical & Creative Practices", offered by the City University of Hong Kong.

 || Matthew Wong's photography was published in Issue #15 of Cha and is forthcoming in the June 2012 issue of the journal.

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W.F. Lantry

W.F. Lantry's poem "Magic" is now available in String Poet. 'She' neither asked for small objects nor tried to fascinate. What did 'she' do?

 || Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.

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New updates on 3 Cha contributors: Rumjhum Biswas, Bob Bradshaw and Royston Tester

Rumjhum Biswas

Rumjhum Biswas's poem "The Fish, The Sea, and Me", previously published in Contemporary Rhyme, is now reprinted in Wisdom Crieth Without. The poem has this line: 'There, right there, I found a fish on the sand'. What will happen to this fish? Read on.  

|| See Rumjhum Biswas's Cha profile. 

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Bob Bradshaw

Bob Bradshaw's poem "Coleridge" is now published in the May 2012 issue of Red River Review. Dorothy Wordsworth and her brother appear in the poem too.

|| Read Bob Bradshaw's Cha profile.

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Royston Tester

 Congratulations to Cha's Associate Editor Royston Tester! His second collection of short fiction, Fatty Goes to China, published by Tightrope Books, will be launched on 20 June 2012  (7pm) at Revival, on College Street  in Toronto's Little Italy. The title story "Fatty Goes to China" was published in the March 2012 issue of Cha.

|| Read Royston Tester's Cha profile.

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New updates on 7 Cha contributors: Astha Gupta, Rumjhum Biswas, Ira Sukrungruang, Berit Ellingsen, Sumana Roy and Luisa A. Igloria

Astha Gupta and Rumjhum Biswas

Astha Gupta's poem "Breathprints" (p. 33) is published in the May-June issue of Reading Hour, a highly respected print magazine in India. Astha's poem is also the only one featured in the web sample preview of the issue. Also in the same issue is Rumjhum Biswas's story "Feral" (p. 27). 

|| Astha Gupta's poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha. 

|| See Rumjhum Biswas's Cha profile. 

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Astha Gupta

Astha Gupta's story "Diffusing Light" has recently been anthologised in a compilation of stories inspired by Rabindranath Tagore. The book is published in British Council and you can learn more about it here. and see a complete list of contributors.

|| Astha Gupta's poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha. 

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Ira Sukrungruang

Ira Sukrungruang's poem "Dexatrim: An Autobiography" and an Q&A with Ira are now available in Prime Number. Read everything here. 

||  Ira Sukrungruang's poetry has been published in issue #9 of Cha.  

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Berit Ellingsen

Berit Ellingsen's story "Person Ore Heart" is now available in Everyday Genius. It begins with this sentence: "For this story you must believe that the mind is imprisoned inside the body, that the body is separate from the rest of the world, and that the mind’s thoughts make up a whole personality."

|| Read Berit Ellingsen's Cha profile.

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Sumana Roy

Sumana Roy's new poem "Long Distance Relationship" is now published in Livemint. The poem will make you reflect on your own relationships. 

|| See Sumana Roy's Cha profile.

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Luisa A. Igloria

Luisa Igloria's poem "Cuauhtemoc" (p. 247) is published in the latest issue of POETRY. You can read the poem here. 

|| Luisa A. Igloria's poetry was published in issue #2 and issue #8 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 7 Cha contributors: Lyn Lifshin, Ricky Garni, Nabina Das, Anindita Sengupta, Sumana Roy, Nikesh Murali and Rumjhum Biswas

Lyn Lifshin and Ricky Garni

The April 2012 issue of Pirene's Fountain is now available and Lyn Lifshin is one of the featured poets. Read her "Reading Song to a Sea Gull" and "I Think I Understand" as well as an interview with her. Ricky Garni's poem "Before You Go" is also featured in the new issue. Has he made you rethink your reaction to Rumi?

|| Lyn Lifshin's poetry was published in issue 4 and issue 10 of Cha.

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

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Nabina Das, Anindita Sengupta, Sumana Roy, Nikesh Murali and Rumjhum Biswas

The April 2012 issue of The Four Quarters Magazine, guest edited by Nabina Das (there is an editorial by Nabina), is now out! It features poetry by Anindita Sengupta ("How to Make a Cup", "Grihapravesh", "The Smell of Water", pp. 9-10) and Sumana Roy ("Anger", "Lunch", pp. 38-39); creative non-fiction by Sumana Roy ("In the Chicken's Neck", pp. 57-63); and fiction by Nikesh Murali ("The Note", p. 83) and Rumjhum Biswas ("Old Man Sitting on a South Kolkata Park Bench, Ruminating", pp. 87-90).

Read the entire issue here.

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

|| Anindita Sengupta's poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha.

|| See Sumana Roy's Cha profile.

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

|| See Rumjhum Biswas's Cha profile. 

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New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Marc Vincenz, Mani Rao, Eleanor Goodman, Grace V. S. Chin and Rumjhum Biswas

Marc Vincenz, Mani Rao and Eleanor Goodman

The April 2012 issue of Asymptote is now available and you can read Marc Vincenz's Mani Rao's and Eleanor Goodman's work in it.

|| Read Marc Vincenz's Cha profile. 

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

|| Eleanor Goodman's poetry and translation were published in Issue 14 of Cha.

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Grace V. S. Chin

In the Spotlight: Bruneian Plays in English, an anthology edited by Grace V. S. Chin, is now published! Learn more about the book here.

|| 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. 

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Rumjhum Biswas

 Congratulations to Rumjhum Biswas! Her short story "The Well" has been named the winner of Anam Cara Short Fiction Competition. The judge Vanessa Gebbie has the following to say about Rumjhum's work: "I thought the interpretation of the theme was great - slightly off-centre, unexpected and original. So many congratulations to the writer". Rumjhum has won a place on Vanessa Gebbie's short fiction retreat. Learn more about the competition and other winning stories here. 

|| See Rumjhum Biswas's Cha profile. 

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Rumjhum Biswas in Pixelhose

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Rumjhum Biswas's story "Mother’s Garden" (first published in Sybil's Garage) is now published in Pixelhose. Read the story here. If you like it, do click the "Like' button to show support.

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See Rumjhum Biswas's Cha profile.
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Rumjhum Biswas in Everyday Writer's Resource

Rumjhum Biswas's short story "She Doesn't Know" is published in Everyday Writer's Resource. You can also read Rumjhum's story "My Soul" here.-
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Best of the Net 2011 Nominations

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We are happy to announce that the following pieces of work have been nominated by Cha for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2011, published by Sundress. Congratulations to these writers and good luck!

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=W.F. Lantry, "Rainbow Bridge" (issue #12, September 2010)

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=Phill Provance, "St. Petersburg Has Many Churches" Read an analysis of the poem here.(issue #12, September 2010)

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=Rumjhum Biswas, "Bones" Read an analysis of the poem here. (issue #12, September 2010)

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=Divya Rajan, "Ode to Poetry"  (issue #13, February 2011)

=Vineet Kaul, "Parapraxis" (issue #13, February 2011)





=Graeme Brasher, "Mereles" (issue #13, February 2011)

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=Shivani Sivagurunathan, "The Bat Whisperer" (issue #13, February 2011)


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=Elizabeth Weinberg, "The Earth That Stands Before Us" (issue #12, September 2010)




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Iris A. Law's "Circumnavigation" (issue #7) was selected for publication in Best of the Net 2009 and Lillian Kwok's "Departure" (issue #8) was selected as a Finalist in 2010. 

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