Cha's March 2013 Issue (#20) Launch Reading at AWP

There will be a launch reading for the March 2013 issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal at AWP. The event will be hosted by guest editors Kaitlin Solimine and Marc Vincenz and co-hosted by the Fairbank Center forChinese Studies at Harvard University.

Feature readings by past and current Cha contributors Eleanor Goodman, Bill Lantry, Kim Liao, Mai Mang (Yibing Huang), Tracy Slater, Marc Vincenz, and Nicholas YB Wong. 

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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 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: 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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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 5 Cha contributors: Ricky Garni, Dena Rash Guzman, Kaitlin Solimine, Greg Santos and W.F. Lantry

Ricky Garni 

A 'miniature' by Ricky Garni titled "KO-AK" is now available in Ginger Piglet Magazine. As the man himself wisely writes, 'That's right. The sweet piglet is made of ginger.' Don't you want to smile to that?

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


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Dena Rash Guzman

Dena Rash Guzman's poem "checklist" is now available in Ink Node. define the short version of a long hoax... 

|| Dena Rash Guzman's poetry was published in Issue #15 and Issue #16 of Cha.

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Kaitlin Solimine

An excerpt from Kaitlin Solimine's first novel, Empire of Glass, is now available in Guernica Magazine! Read it here. Kaitlin won the 2012 Dzanc Books/Disquiet International Literary Program Award, selected by Colson Whitehead.

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



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Greg Santos 

Three poems by Greg Santos are now available in have you seen my whale  #2.   Read "what an age we live in", "a deep unimaginable sadness" and "help!" here.  Don't you want to send Greg an email to make him happy again?

|| Greg Santos's poem "Siem Reap, Cambodia" was published in issue #10 of Cha and discussed here.

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W.F. Lantry 

Congratulations to W.F. Lantry! His poetry collection, The Structure of Desire (Little Red Tress Press), which contains 108 poems of love, passion, mystery and devotion, is now launched! The book has a foreword by Jean-Yves Solinga, a prologue, introduction to each poem and a sixteen-page glossary. Learn more about The Structure of Desire and Bill's work here.

||Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.

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New updates on 6 Cha contributors: W.F. Lantry, Lee Herrick, Jennifer Wong, Alvin Pang, Craig Santos Perez and Bryan Thao Worra

W.F. Lantry

W.F. Lantry's short story "Arboretum" is published in the Summer 2012 issue of JMWW. 

|| Read W.F. Lantry's Cha profile.

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Lee Herrick

Two poems by Lee Herrick, "Van Gogh Writes to Gaugin" and "Focus Theory", are published in the Spring 2012 issue of Pebble Lake Review. 

|| Lee Herrick's poetry was published in issue #4 of Cha.


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Jennifer Wong, Alvin Pang, Craig Santos Perez and Bryan Thao Worra 

As part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, Southbank Centre held a week-long Poetry Parnassus, bringing poets from all the competing Olympic nations together. You can read poems by Jennifer Wong - Hong Kong ("Glimpse"), Alvin Pang - Singapore ("When the Barbarians Arrive"), Craig Santos Perez - Guam ("from preterrain") and Bryan Thao Worra - Laos ("No Regrets"), alongside with poems by all other representing poets using the Guardian interactive map. 

|| Jennifer Wong's poem "Companions" was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She has also reviewed books for the journal.
|| Alvin Pang's poetry was published in issue #2 of Cha and his photographs were published in issue #12 and issue #16 of the journal.
|| Craig Santos Perez's review was been published in issue #9 of Cha.
|| Bryan Thao Worra's poetry was published in Issue #1 and Issue #6 of Cha. His poem "Zelkova Tree" was discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea.
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New updates on 5 Cha contributors: Nicolette Wong, Bob Bradshaw, John McKernan, Marc Vincenz and W.F. Lantry

Nicolette Wong

Nicolette Wong's four prose poems, "The Glassblower", "Hinamatsuri", "Treehouse" and "Pith", are published in Escape Into Life. Read them here.

|| Nicolette Wong's short stories were published in Issue #1 and Issue #6 of Cha.
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Bob Bradshaw

Bob Bradshaw's poem "Soon", previously published in Mannequin Envy, is now available in Reprint Poetry. The poem describes a haunting picnic experience and contains this very lovely line: 'his kisses more memorable than any sermon'.

||  Read Bob Bradshaw's Cha profile.

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John McKernan

John McKernan's poem "Why Do You Write These Poems?" is featured in Issue #22 of Emprise Review. Actually / I am not writing this poem / I am erasing it...

|| John McKernan's poetry was published in Issue #15 of Cha and is forthcoming in the June 2012 issue.  His poem"We Used Chalk" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2012.  
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Marc Vincenz

Marc Vincenz's poem "Wolfboy" can now be read on October Babies. The poem was previously published in Brink Magazine.

 || See Marc Vincenz's Cha profile. 
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W.F. Lantry

W.F. Lantry's poem "Remembrance" is now published in the June 2012 issue of Flutter Poetry.

 || Read W.F. Lantry'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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