1. Amit Majmudar, Rites to Allay the Dead, poem, published in Verse Daily, Mar. 11, 2010 issue
About the writer: Amit Majmudar is a diagnostic radiologist specializing in nuclear medicine in Columbus, Ohio, where he lives with his wife and twin sons. His poetry has appeared in Poetry, First Things, and TriQuarterly, among other publications. His poem "A Pedestrian" was read on WNYC as part of National Poetry Month, and "By Accident" was selected for The Best American Poetry 2007.
2. Belline Chao, Night cuts these streets into lines, poem, published in The 2 River View, Spring 2010 issue
About the writer: Belline Chao will soon be featured in an anthology celebrating the work of Weldon Kees. Her poems now appear in Askew, Connotation Press, Mosaic, and The Packinghouse Review. She is currently pursuing an MFA at the University of North Carolina — Wilmington.
3. Dilruba Ahmed, Venice During an Election Year in the U.S., poem, published in The Collagist, Mar. 2010 issue
About the writer: Dilruba Ahmed is the author of Dhaka Dust (Graywolf, 2011), winner of the 2010 Bakeless Literary Prize for poetry, selected by Arthur Sze and awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Ahmed’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Cream City Review, New England Review, New Orleans Review, Drunken Boat, and Pebble Lake Review. Her work will also appear in the forthcoming anthology, Indivisible: Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (University of Arkansas Press, 2010).
4. Hanif Kureishi, A Terrible Story, short story, published in Times Online, Feb. 21, 2010 issue
5. Jo Ann Balingit, Comfort, Cape Henlopen, poem, published in Verse Daily, Feb. 24, 2010 issue
About the writer: JoAnn Balingit’s work has appeared in Harpur Palate, Salt Hill Journal, Smartish Pace and elsewhere, including the anthologies DIAGRAM.2 and Best New Poets 2007. She serves as Delaware’s poet laureate, appointed in 2008. She teaches poetry in schools and community organizations throughout the state and lives with her family in Newark.
6. Kimiko Hahn, Alba, poem, published in Cerise Press, Spring 2010 issue
About the writer: KIMIKO HAHN is the author of eight books of poems, including: Earshot (Hanging Loose Press, 1992), which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award; The Unbearable Heart (Kaya, 1996), which received an American Book Award; The Narrow Road to the Interior (W.W. Norton, 2006); and Toxic Flora (W.W. Norton, forthcoming 2010). She is a recipient of a number of fellowships and awards, such as the PEN/Voelcker Award, The Shelley Memorial Prize and a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award. She is a distinguished professor in the English Dept. and the MFA Program at Queens College, The City University of New York. Her poems in Cerise Press were inspired by and in some cases quoted from the science section of The New York Times.
7. Lee Jing-Jing, Bones, poem, published in Quarterly Literary Review, Singapore, Vol. 9 No. 1 2010 issue
About the writer: Lee Jing-Jing is currently doing a Masters in Creative Writing at Oxford. She is a fiction writer as well as a poet and is now working on her first novel.
8. Ma. Eliza Victoria, Night: Notes, poem, published in Sunday Inquirer Magazine, Feb. 20 issue
9. Papa Osmubal, A Bum's Demise , poem, published in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Feb. 2010 issue
About the writer: Papa Osmubal writes from Macau. His works, visual and literary, appear in numerous places, online and hardcopy, most recently in Bulatlat and Poor Mojo's Almanac(k). He writes regularly for eK! (electroniKabalen / electroniKapampangan / electroniK...). He is currently working on a collection of modernist papercuts for his planned solo exhibition tentatively called 'Nocturnal Voice'.
10. Patrick Rosal, Man Hanging Upside Down, poem, published in The Collagist, Feb. 2010 issue
11. R. Torres Pandan, The Gathering of Stones, poem, published in Poet's Picturebook, Mar. 2010 issue
About the writer: R. Torres Pandan is a poet, fictionist, lawyer, and recently resumed writing his first novel. He has published his poetry and fiction in various Philippine publications and has collected his poems in a book titled Days of Grace (USLS Press, 2005). He has been a fellow at the Silliman and UP Writers workshops, and a senior fellow at the USLS Iyas Writers Workshop. He is presently Dean of the College of Law of the University of St. La Salle and lives in Bacolod City with his wife and three children.
12. Sueyeun Juliette Lee, (no title), poem, published in Citiphoria, Mar. 2010 issue
Note: Includes a few that we missed out in February. Kindly nominate works of Asian writers if you happen to see them online or advise us of your recently published works/forthcoming publications, so we can include them in the next release. Email us at asiawritesmail@gmail.com.
About the writer: Amit Majmudar is a diagnostic radiologist specializing in nuclear medicine in Columbus, Ohio, where he lives with his wife and twin sons. His poetry has appeared in Poetry, First Things, and TriQuarterly, among other publications. His poem "A Pedestrian" was read on WNYC as part of National Poetry Month, and "By Accident" was selected for The Best American Poetry 2007.
2. Belline Chao, Night cuts these streets into lines, poem, published in The 2 River View, Spring 2010 issue
About the writer: Belline Chao will soon be featured in an anthology celebrating the work of Weldon Kees. Her poems now appear in Askew, Connotation Press, Mosaic, and The Packinghouse Review. She is currently pursuing an MFA at the University of North Carolina — Wilmington.
3. Dilruba Ahmed, Venice During an Election Year in the U.S., poem, published in The Collagist, Mar. 2010 issue
About the writer: Dilruba Ahmed is the author of Dhaka Dust (Graywolf, 2011), winner of the 2010 Bakeless Literary Prize for poetry, selected by Arthur Sze and awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Ahmed’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Cream City Review, New England Review, New Orleans Review, Drunken Boat, and Pebble Lake Review. Her work will also appear in the forthcoming anthology, Indivisible: Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (University of Arkansas Press, 2010).
4. Hanif Kureishi, A Terrible Story, short story, published in Times Online, Feb. 21, 2010 issue
5. Jo Ann Balingit, Comfort, Cape Henlopen, poem, published in Verse Daily, Feb. 24, 2010 issue
About the writer: JoAnn Balingit’s work has appeared in Harpur Palate, Salt Hill Journal, Smartish Pace and elsewhere, including the anthologies DIAGRAM.2 and Best New Poets 2007. She serves as Delaware’s poet laureate, appointed in 2008. She teaches poetry in schools and community organizations throughout the state and lives with her family in Newark.
6. Kimiko Hahn, Alba, poem, published in Cerise Press, Spring 2010 issue
About the writer: KIMIKO HAHN is the author of eight books of poems, including: Earshot (Hanging Loose Press, 1992), which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award; The Unbearable Heart (Kaya, 1996), which received an American Book Award; The Narrow Road to the Interior (W.W. Norton, 2006); and Toxic Flora (W.W. Norton, forthcoming 2010). She is a recipient of a number of fellowships and awards, such as the PEN/Voelcker Award, The Shelley Memorial Prize and a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award. She is a distinguished professor in the English Dept. and the MFA Program at Queens College, The City University of New York. Her poems in Cerise Press were inspired by and in some cases quoted from the science section of The New York Times.
7. Lee Jing-Jing, Bones, poem, published in Quarterly Literary Review, Singapore, Vol. 9 No. 1 2010 issue
About the writer: Lee Jing-Jing is currently doing a Masters in Creative Writing at Oxford. She is a fiction writer as well as a poet and is now working on her first novel.
8. Ma. Eliza Victoria, Night: Notes, poem, published in Sunday Inquirer Magazine, Feb. 20 issue
9. Papa Osmubal, A Bum's Demise , poem, published in Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Feb. 2010 issue
About the writer: Papa Osmubal writes from Macau. His works, visual and literary, appear in numerous places, online and hardcopy, most recently in Bulatlat and Poor Mojo's Almanac(k). He writes regularly for eK! (electroniKabalen / electroniKapampangan / electroniK...). He is currently working on a collection of modernist papercuts for his planned solo exhibition tentatively called 'Nocturnal Voice'.
10. Patrick Rosal, Man Hanging Upside Down, poem, published in The Collagist, Feb. 2010 issue
11. R. Torres Pandan, The Gathering of Stones, poem, published in Poet's Picturebook, Mar. 2010 issue
About the writer: R. Torres Pandan is a poet, fictionist, lawyer, and recently resumed writing his first novel. He has published his poetry and fiction in various Philippine publications and has collected his poems in a book titled Days of Grace (USLS Press, 2005). He has been a fellow at the Silliman and UP Writers workshops, and a senior fellow at the USLS Iyas Writers Workshop. He is presently Dean of the College of Law of the University of St. La Salle and lives in Bacolod City with his wife and three children.
12. Sueyeun Juliette Lee, (no title), poem, published in Citiphoria, Mar. 2010 issue
Note: Includes a few that we missed out in February. Kindly nominate works of Asian writers if you happen to see them online or advise us of your recently published works/forthcoming publications, so we can include them in the next release. Email us at asiawritesmail@gmail.com.
