What is it like to give birth in America? What is it like to be praised for speaking good English? Three new poems, by Mia Ayumi Malhotra, find a way out of the bewilderment.
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Announcing the winners of the 9th Singapore Poetry Contest, aka, the snail contest.
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The body as a vessel of experience. The body out of place. Three visceral poems by Yashasvi Vachhani.
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The dangers of looking are ameliorated by the beauty of singing in two new poems by Ashish Kumar Singh, “A Poem on the Nature of Things” and “Me Looking At Him.”
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In these two poems, Jake Dennis persuades us a silver streak on our new carpet is a journey, and plumeria cuttings are totems.
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In this poetic meditation, Tim Tim Cheng finds death’s accents in a moon elder, a pillar of shame, a fat dick, and a line that keeps closing in.
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In these moving poems about transphobia, arrests of street protesters, and a missing daughter, Yee Heng Yeh speaks imaginatively and empathetically from the viewpoints of oppressors and victims.
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In these three new poems, Miguel Barretto Garcia meditates wryly and agonizingly on masculinity and sexuality, and the penetrating influence of parents on both.
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Sceptical and loving, these three poems by Faiz Ahmad inquire into the nature of constancy and change.
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“Where to look after a semblance of you?” Innas Tsuroiya asks in these two sensuous poems and finds answers in the sentient world.
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Is it a chapbook or a map? Or both? Haunting work by Hamid Roslan.
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In their review of Paul Tran’s All the Flowers Kneeling, Jack Xi shows that Tran’s project is “not to write about survival as purely triumphant or as an ending they have already reached but rather to reflect their real, ongoing journey.”
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“I have swords in my mouth,” proclaims debut poet Teddy Jericho Cheng, and in these two poems, they answer why.
Read More“When one sees at a distance a coffin with the corpse in it/ he should not sing.” In these two poems, Thomas Mar Wee mourns and sings according to the Book of Rites.
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“You smell like the sun, we say to a person/ carrying the loosened backpack of a long day.” —from “BRUSHING MY TEETH AT THE EDGE OF ELIZABETH PLACE”
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Three poems by Sal that play with tropes in NSFW K-pop fanfiction and borrow language from real YouTube comments left on 'focus cams' or jigcams.
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“I wanted to live to tree time.” Shalini Sengupta reviews How I Became a Tree (India: Aleph Books, 2017) and VIP: Very Important Plant (London: Shearsman, 2022) by Sumana Roy.
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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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