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 6 Cha contributors: Kristine Ong Muslim, Sridala Swami, Sumana Roy, Nabina Das, Anindita Sengupta and Ivy Alvarez

Kristine Ong Muslim

Kristine Ong Muslim's new collection of prose poetry and ekphrastic flash fiction We Bury the Landscape is now available for pre-ordering. Learn more about the book here. 
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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Sridala Swami, Sumana Roy, Nabina Das and Anindita Sengupta

The Spring 2012 issue of pyrta is now live and several Cha contributors have new poetry in it. Read Sumana Roy's "Marriage: Mirror", Nabina Das's "Shiva of the Shantytown" and Anindita Sengupta's "The Eye of Horus". The poetry in this issue was guest edited by Sridala Swami, whose has written a lovely note.

|| Read Sumana Roy's Cha profile.

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

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

|| 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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Ivy Alvarez

Read Ivy Alvarez's poem "Seph" and an interview in the latest issue of Certain Circuits Magazine.

Read Ivy Alvarez's Cha profile.  

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Sridala Swami, Aditi Rao, Nabina Das and Anindita Sengupta in Muse India

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Four Cha contributors have new works published in the new issue of Muse India.

||| Sridala Swami's  "Twisitng", "Today's Featured Sorrow" and "Synaesthetic"
||| Aditi Rao's "The International Mango Festival", "Sometimes, When Prayers are Shouted from Rooftops, the Echoes are the Answers" and "Athazagoraphobia"
||| Nabina Das's "Family Survey", "A Song for the Bihu-Waisted-Sister", "Her Love", "I Am the Second Earth, But", "In Spite of Our Bad Days' Splits" and "All things become islands..."
||| Anindita Sengupta's "Speaking in Tongues", "The Vivid Stream" and "I Am Not Part of Your Language"

• 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. 
• Aditi Rao's poem "Reunion" will be published in issue #16 of Cha.
• Nabina Das's poetry was published in Issue #10 of Cha.
• Anindita Sengupta's poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha.

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Sridala Swami and Priyadarshi Patnaik in DesiLit

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Sridala Swami's "Dancing to Political Songs" and Priyadarshi Patnaik's "Puri Town: Sketch no 27" are now published in DesiLit Magazine.

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• Sridala Swami's poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha.
• Priyadarshi Patnaik's photograph "Flight of the Toads" is the cover image of issue #9 of Cha.

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Cha contributors in Mascara Literary Review

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The following Cha contributors have new creative works published in the May 2011 issue of Mascara Literary Review.

-Nicholas Y.B. Wong: Poetry ("Walk With Words", "Mark Twain as an Anti-Anti Smoker")

-Sam Byfield: Poetry ("Split Earth", "Escaping the Central West")

-Desh Balasubramaniam: Poetry ("The Zoo", "The Country, My Lover", "Smoke of Zebu")

-Sridala Swami: Poetry ("Chromatography", "Of Clairvoyance")

-Michelle Cahill: Review ("Diasporic Fault Lines: Michelle Cahill reviews Create Dangerously")

-Ouyang Yu: Translations ("Ouyang Yu translates three poems by Shu Cai")

-Rumjhum Biswas: Fiction ("Ducklings")

• See Nicholas Y.B. Wong's Cha profile.
• Read Sam Byfield's Cha profile.
• Desh Balasubramaniam's poetry was published in issue #11 of Cha.
• Sridala Swami's poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha.
• Michelle Cahill's poetry was published in issue #2 of Cha.
• Ouyang Yu's poem "Bad English" was published in issue #4 of Cha and analysed on A Cup of Fine Tea.
• Rumjhum Biswas's poem "Bones" was published in issue #12 of Cha. The piece has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

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Poetics - Sridala Swami

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Read Sridala Swami's "Bitter as Wormwood" in the Poetics section of the new issue of Drunken Boat.

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Sridala Swami's poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha.

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Cha contributors at Hyderabad Literary Festival 2010

Cha contributors Rumjhum Biswas, Anindita Sengupta and Sridala Swami will be appearing at the Hyderabad Literary Festival 2010, a 3-day multi-lingual event to be held in Hyderabad on Dec 10-12, 2010. Learn more about the festival here. 

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• Rumjhum Biswas's poem "Bones" was published in issue #12 of Cha. The piece has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
• Anindita Sengupta's poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha.
• Sridala Swami's poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha.

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Sridala Swami in DesiLit and Mint

Sridala Swami's "Dancing to Political Songs" is published in the Spring 2010 issue of DesiLit Magazine and her new poem "Daybreak" is featured in the newspaper, Mint.
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Sridala Swami's poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha.

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The launch of Anindita Sengupta's CITY OF WATER

This is a belated post but we want to congratulate Anindita on the publication and launch of City of Water!

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Toto Funds the Arts
is pleased to invite you

to the launch of Anindita Sengupta's first volume of poetry, City of Water,
where she will be 'in conversation' with poet/writer Sridala Swami

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Venue: Crossword Bookstore, ACR Towers, Ground Floor, 32 Residency Road, Bangalore – 1

Date and time: Friday, 7 May 2010 at 6.30 pm

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Anindita Sengupta's poetry has been published in several journals including Eclectica, Nth Position, Yellow Medicine Review, Origami Condom, Pratilipi, Cha: An Asian Journal, Kritya,and Muse India. It has also appeared in the anthologies Mosaic (Unisun, 2008), Not A Muse(Haven Books, 2009), and Poetry with Prakriti (Prakriti Foundation, 2010). In 2008, she received the Toto Funds the Arts Award for Creative Writing, annually given to two writers under thirty in India. In 2010, she was the Charles Wallace writer-in-residence at University of Kent in England. Sengupta, who lives in Bangalore, is also a freelance writer and journalist and has contributed articles to The Guardian (UK), The Hindu, Outlook Traveler and Bangalore Mirror. Her personal website is at http://aninditasengupta.com/.

Sridala Swami’s poetry and fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals including Chandrabhaga, Pratilipi, New Quest, Wasafiri, Asian Cha, Desilit and the Creative Writing Issue of The South Asian Review (28:3, 2007). Her work also features in The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (Bloodaxe, 2008); in the anthology, Not A Muse (Haven Books, 2009) and in First Proof: 4 (Penguin Books, 2009). Her book of poemsThe Reluctant Survivor was published in 2007.

"City of Water is remarkable for its supple language and tensile strength. Her images are sharp and there is integrity about the core of feeling that propels the poem. One cannot spot any weak moments either in terms of emotion or language….Anindita Sengupta never lets a poem run away with her. Like all good poets, she is original both in her way with words and her personal angle of vision."
–– Keki Daruwalla in the Preface to City of Water

• Anindita Sengupta's poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha.
• Sridala Swami's poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha.

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Posting the Light: Dispatches from Hamburg -- An exhibition of texts and images by Sridala Swami

(Click the image to enlarge)

Sridala Swami's poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha.
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Sridala Swami in Pratilipi

Read Sridala Swami's reflection on Wallace Stevens' poem "The Snow Man" here in the July 2009 issue of Pratilipi, a bi-lingual literary journal in English and Hindi.

Sridala Swami's poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha.

NOT A MUSE

Cha excitedly announces the launch of Not A Muse. Not A Muse is edited by Viki Holmes (Cha contributor) and Kate Rogers and published by Haven Books.

The anthology includes poems by "over 100 sensational contributors from 24 countries including". The following Cha contributors are featured in the long-awaited anthology: Agnes Lam (issue#2), Anindita Sengupta (issue#3), Kavita Jindal (issue#1), Louise Ho (issue#4), Luisa A Igloria (issue#2), Mani Rao (issue#1), Michelle Cahill (issue#2), Phoebe Tsang (issue#6), Sridala Swami (issue#3), Tammy Ho Lai-Ming (co-editor of Cha) and Viki Holmes (issue#3).

You can find more detail about the launch of Not A Muse on the Haven Books website and the the Man Kong International Literary Festival 2009 website.

If you are in Hong Kong, do join the launch party!

Sridala Swami's new works

Sridala Swami's short story is now published in the First Proof: The Penguin Book of New Writing 4.She also has new poems published in the Creative Writing issue of The South Asian Review (28:3).

Sridala Swami's poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha.

Sridala Swami's Poems in Pratilipi

Sridala Swami has three poems published in Pratilipi, a bi-lingual literary journal in English and Hindi. The three poems are "Red Chillies", "Chimera", and "Songlines: Six".

Sridala Swami's poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha.
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