In these attentive poems, Jackson Minjoon Wright shines a light on, as he puts it, “the particularities of adoption and secluded life in the Midwest.”
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In these exacting poems, Joey S. Kim considers the impact of empire on identity and writing.
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What if dogs can read? Chris Huntington ponders this and other questions in these new poems.
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“To what extent should Singlit speak to global cultures and the threat of the climate crisis, and how should it do so?” Zining Mok reviews Red Earth by Esther Vincent Xueming (USA: Blue Cactus Press, 2021).
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We’re very pleased to announce the results of the 8th annual Singapore Poetry Contest. Enjoy the winning poems!
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Lim Xin Hwee examines the lingering effects of colonialism in “S.A.M.” by Singaporean poet Ann Ang.
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In these poems, Kuching-born, Cantonese American poet Daniel W.K. Lee explores the fraught spaces of sex apps, hanging gardens, and department stores.
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Shelley Fairweather-Vega and Katherine E. Young translate poems by Oral Arukenova, Anastasiya Belousova, Asel Omar, Kanat Omar, Ramil Niyazov-Adyldzhyan, and Irina Gumyrkina, which respond urgently to the January 2022 protests and their aftermath in Kazakhstan.
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Lim Xin Hwee examines the paradoxes of survival in “Acts of Self Consumption” by Ally Chua.
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From Iranian-born, Toronto-based poet Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi, one poem and two translations of Nima Youshij from Farsi to English.
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An essay by Rachel Kuanneng Lee about a sister's suicide and how to write about it.
Read MorePitamber Kaushik translates 5 Bhojpuri poems by Avinash Chandra Vidyarthi, Awadhendra dev Narayan, and Aniruddh into English.
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