26 August 2010
Good Read Elsewhere: Divya Rajan's The Weight of Silence in Ultra Violet
Writer's name: Divya Rajan
Title of work: The Weight of Silence
Genre: poem
Name of magazine/journal: Ultra Violet
Issue: August 2010

Author's bio: Divya Rajan’s work has been published in Poetic Chicago anthology, Apparatus, Read This, Gloom Cupboard, Danse Macabre, The Times of India, Femina, Asian Cha, and many others. She has been a recipient of a Pushcart Prize nomination in addition to other writing awards, and currently lives in Chicago where she co- edits poetry at The Furnace Review. She has recently finished work on her first chapbook, Chanting Silhouettes.

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19 August 2010
Good Read Elsewhere: Ocean Vuong's Seeing as It Is in Splinter
Writer's name: Ocean Vuong
Title of work: Seeing as It Is
Genre: poem
Name of magazine/journal: Splinter
Issue: August 2010

Author's bio: Born in 1988 in Saigon, Vietnam, Ocean Vuong currently resides in New York City as an undergraduate English Major at Brooklyn College, CUNY. His poems have received an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Beatrice Dubin Rose Award, the Connecticut Poetry Society’s Al Savard Award, as well as two Pushcart Prize nominations. His work appear in Word Riot, the Kartika Review, Lantern Review, SOFTBLOW, Asia Literary Review, and PANK among others. He enjoys practicing Zen Meditation and is an avid supporter of animal rights. More poems at www.oceanvuong.blogspot.com

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Good Read Elsewhere: Sumana Roy's Kosi in Green Light Dhaba
Writer's name: Sumana Roy
Title of work: Kosi
Genre: poem
Name of magazine/journal: Green Light Dhaba
Issue: August 2010

Author's bio: Sumana Roy’s first novel, Love in the Chicken’s Neck, was long listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008. She’s working on a collection of stories about clothes, tentatively titled SML. She’d like to work harder on growing her hair.

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Good Read Elsewhere: Sumana Roy's Kosi in Green Light Dhaba

13 August 2010
Good Read Elsewhere: Shweta Ganesh Kumar's The Long Road Home in Pothiz
Writer's name: Shweta Ganesh Kumar
Title of work: The Long Road Home
Genre: short story
Name of magazine/journal: Pothiz
Issue: August 2010

Author's bio: Shweta Ganesh Kumar is a writer and a freelance travel journalist who is based in the Philippines with articles frequently appearing in the New Indian Express. Prior to this she was a Communications Officer for Greenpeace India and a correspondent with CNN-IBN (CNN’s Indian sister concern). She has contributed articles for ‘Chicken Soup for the Indian Spiritual Soul’ and ‘CBW’s India’s Top 42 Weekend Getaways’. She has written columns for publications like the One Philippines and Your Story. Her short fiction has been published in literary journals like Australian Women online, Single Solitary Thought, Pothiz and the Asia Writes project. She writes a column for The NRI, an online magazine and is also a guest blogger for Pratham Books.

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“Wake up, Roy. Wake up! You’ll be late for school.” Sister’s persistent voice rang through his dreams. With his eyes still stubbornly shut, he turned over from his side and lay on his back. He knew that he would have to wake up in less than two minutes. She would not stop nagging him otherwise. He lifted his left hand and wiped away the drool on the corner of his mouth with the back of it. “Royyy.”

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09 August 2010
Good Read Elsewhere: Ocean Vuong's 2 Poems in Mascara Literary Review
Writer's name: Ocean Vuong
Title of work: Arrival by Fire, If You Are a Refugee
Genre: poem
Name of magazine/journal: Mascara Literary Review
Issue: Issue 7

Author's bio: Born in 1988 in Saigon, Vietnam, Ocean Vuong is currently an undergraduate English Major at Brooklyn College, CUNY. His poems have received an Academy of American Poets Prize, the Beatrice Dubin Rose Award, the Connecticut Poetry Society's Al Savard Award, as well as two Pushcart Prize nominations. His work appear in Word Riot, the Kartika Review, Lantern Review, SOFTBLOW, Asia Literary Review, and PANK among others. He enjoys practicing Zen Meditation and lives in Brooklyn with an 84 year old lady who he nurses in lieu of paying rent. Visit his blog at www.oceanvuong.blogspot.com

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04 August 2010
Good Read Elsewhere: Sumana Roy's Haircut in Ultra Violet
Writer's name: Sumana Roy
Title of work: Haircut
Genre: poem
Name of magazine/journal: Ultra Violet
Issue: August 2010

Author's bio: Sumana Roy’s first novel, Love in the Chicken’s Neck, was long listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008. She’s working on a collection of stories about clothes, tentatively titled SML. She’d like to work harder on growing her hair.

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03 August 2010
Good Read Elsewhere: Subhakar Das's A Void in Flutter Poetry Journal
Writer's name: Subhakar Das
Title of work: A Void
Genre: poem
Name of magazine/journal: Flutter Poetry Journal
Issue: Vol 5 Issue 7

Author's bio: A dentist by training, his work, mostly poetry and short fiction, has appeared in various e-zines, newspapers and print journals. When not enamored by the beauty of the Brahmaputra, he is fidgety about the turmoil in Assam, which forms the basis for his first work of full-length fiction Where the Rain Falls. He currently resides in Guwahati, India.

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31 July 2010
Good Read Elsewhere: Abha Iyengar 's Drought Country in Bewildering Stories
Writer's name: Abha Iyengar
Title of work: Drought Country
Genre: short story
Name of magazine/journal: Bewildering Stories
Issue: Issue 385, 24th May 2010

Author's bio: Abha Iyengar is an internationally published writer and poet. Her work has appeared in Mannequin Envy, Danse Macabre, Dead Drunk Dublin, Citizen 32, Arabesques Review, The Fabulist and others. She is a Kota Press Poetry Anthology contest winner. Her story, ‘The High Stool’ was nominated for the Story South Million Writers Award. She is a member of The Poetry Society of India and ‘Riyaz’ Writer’s Group at The British Council. Her flash fiction has won contests at Tattoo Highway and at Door Knobs and Body Paint. She is recipient of the Lavanya Sankaran Writing Fellowship for 2009-2010.Her website: www.abhaiyengar.com. Her blog: abhaencounter.blogspot.com.

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"This year, after seven years, the fields are dry once again and there is no rain. Mother does not need to tell Baabul how it will affect them, he knows. After all, he is the one who does the stocktaking, the inventory control. He knows that this year, if there is no rain, they will not have much money to go around to buy anything besides the basic food, maybe some rice gruel, maybe some onions and potatoes.

They are awaiting the monsoon. The heat is unbearable, the sun a red ball of fire that promises nothing but dry fields and baked earth, a wanting and a yearning. Baabul can feel the cracked hardness of the earth slicing through his heels. Anything will harden and stiffen when deprived, he thinks. Nature makes it so.

Mother is stiff, austere; she does not speak much and her eyes soften only sometimes, when a stray thought enters her mind or she hears an old song on the radio. But these are moments so rare that he can hardly vouch for their being true."

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28 July 2010
Good Read Elsewhere: Janice Pariat's 5 Poems in Poetry Super Highway
Writer's name: Janice Pariat
Title of work: 5 Poems
Genre: poem
Name of magazine/journal: Poetry Super Highway
Issue: 26th July-1st August 2010

Author's bio: Janice Pariat is a freelance writer currently based in her hometown Shillong, India after many years of being away in Delhi and elsewhere. She is inspired by her mixed Portuguese, British and Khasi ancestry, Shillong's troubled history, her childhood in Assam, travel. Her writing has been published in Soundzine, Tongues of the Ocean, The Smoking Poet, Barnwood International Poetry Mag, Poetry Friends, Tehelka, The Caravan, Art India, Ultra Violet and Literati among others. Janice has been awarded a 2011 Swiss Arts Council grant to work on a short graphic novel in Lucerne and she is founder-editor of "Pyrta", a journal of poetry, prose, photo essays and sketches. Visit Janice on the web here: www.janicepariat.blogspot.com and www.pyrtajournal.com.

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26 July 2010
Good Read Elsewhere: Khurshid Alam's 4 Poems in Muse India
Writer's name: Khurshid Alam
Title of work: 4 Poems
Genre: poem
Name of magazine/journal: Muse India
Issue: July 2010

Author's bio: Khurshid Alam, MA in English Literature, is a Technical Writer with an IT company based in Gandhinagar, Gujarat (India). Besides technical writing, he writes poems, stories, short flash fiction, and on life, literature and culture. Many of his poems have been published in various journals and magazines in India and abroad such as Meantime (Kerala, India), Muse India, Mainstream (New Delhi), ken* again, and The Blue Fog Journal, and The Quatrain City to name a few. Other writings are coming with The Feline Muse, The New Criterion, Kaal4Flash and others. Two of his poems have been included in a book titled An Anthology of Contemporary Love Poems published by The Blue Fog Journal. Many other writings are in the queue to be published in various journals. He edits Contemporary Literary Review: India and is currently working on a novel.

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22 July 2010
Good Read Elsewhere: Oliver de la Paz's How I Learned Quiet in Verse Daily
Writer's name: Oliver de la Paz
Title of work: How I Learned Quiet
Genre: poem
Name of magazine/journal: Verse Daily
Issue: June 2010

Author's bio: Oliver de la Paz was born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in Ontario, Oregon. He has a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in English from Loyola Marymount University, and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Arizona State University. He currently teaches creative writing at Western Washington University. A recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, his work has appeared in journals such as Quarterly West, The Asian Pacific American Journal, North American Review, and elsewhere. His book of prose and verse, Names Above Houses, was a winner of the Crab Orchard Award Series and published by Southern Illinois University Press. His second book, Furious Lullaby, is the editor’s selection for 2007, published by Southern Illinois University Press.

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Good Read Elsewhere: Jennifer Chang's Goodnight, Ladies in Verse Daily
Writer's name: Jennifer Chang
Title of work: Goodnight, Ladies
Genre: poem
Name of magazine/journal: Verse Daily
Issue: May 2010

Author's bio: Jennifer Chang is the author of The History of Anonymity. Her poems and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in A Public Space, The Believer, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, The New Republic, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.

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Good Read Elsewhere: Jennifer Chang's Goodnight, Ladies in Verse Daily

Good Read Elsewhere: Ivy Alvarez's En las montañas in The Nepotist
Writer's name: Ivy Alvarez
Title of work: En las montañas
Genre: poem
Name of magazine/journal: The Nepotist
Issue: July 2010

Author's bio: Ivy Alvarez is the author of Mortal (Washington, DC: Red Morning Press, 2006). A recipient of writing residencies from MacDowell Colony (USA), Hawthornden Castle (UK) and Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain), her poetry is published in journals and anthologies in many countries and online. www.ivyalvarez.com

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Good Read Elsewhere: Ivy Alvarez's En las montañas in The Nepotist

Good Read Elsewhere: Ivy Alvarez's Lemon flowers, dama de noche in The Nepotist
Writer's name: Ivy Alvarez
Title of work: Lemon flowers, dama de noche
Genre: poem
Name of magazine/journal: The Nepotist
Issue: July 2010

Author's bio: Ivy Alvarez is the author of Mortal (Washington, DC: Red Morning Press, 2006). A recipient of writing residencies from MacDowell Colony (USA), Hawthornden Castle (UK) and Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain), her poetry is published in journals and anthologies in many countries and online. www.ivyalvarez.com

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Good Read Elsewhere: Ivy Alvarez's Lemon flowers, dama de noche in The Nepotist

Good Read Elsewhere: Ivy Alvarez's Phrases in The Nepotist
Writer's name: Ivy Alvarez
Title of work: Phrases
Genre: poem
Name of magazine/journal: The Nepotist
Issue: July 2010

Author's bio: Ivy Alvarez is the author of Mortal (Washington, DC: Red Morning Press, 2006). A recipient of writing residencies from MacDowell Colony (USA), Hawthornden Castle (UK) and Fundacion Valparaiso (Spain), her poetry is published in journals and anthologies in many countries and online. www.ivyalvarez.com

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Good Read Elsewhere: Ivy Alvarez's Phrases in The Nepotist

21 July 2010
Good Read Elsewhere: Nicholas Wong's Walker in amphibi.us
Writer's name: Nicholas Wong
Title of work: Walker
Genre: poem
Name of magazine/journal: amphibi.us
Issue: July 2010

Author's bio: Nicholas Y.B. Wong lectures film studies and contemporary literatures in English at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. His academic articles have appeared in Asian Cinema and two Australian publications concerning media studies and education, namely Screen Education and Metro Magazine. He is also a creative writer based in Hong Kong. His poems and short stories are featured in Cha, Yuan Yang, Asian Pacific Writers’ Network, The Other Voice Poetry Project, Poetry Sky and Fifty-fifty: New Hong Kong Writing, edited by Xu Xi (2007, Haven Books). Visit him at http://nicholasybwong.weebly.com

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20 July 2010
Good Read Elsewhere: Luisa A. Igloria's On the Difficulty of Discerning Shapes in the Distance in Narrative Magazine
Writer's name: Luisa A. Igloria
Title of work: On the Difficulty of Discerning Shapes in the Distance
Genre: poem
Name of magazine/journal: Narrative Magazine
Issue: July 2010

Author's bio: LUISA A. IGLORIA is a poet and associate professor at Old Dominion University, where she currently directs the MFA Creative Writing Program. Originally from Baguio City, she is the author of JUAN LUNA'S REVOLVER (2009 Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, University of Notre Dame Press), TRILL & MORDENT (WordTech Editions 2005), and 8 other books. Visit her at www.luisaigloria.com.

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13 July 2010
Good Read Elsewhere: Simran Oberoi Multani's Where I Belong in Apostrophe'O
Writer's name: Simran Oberoi Multani
Title of work: Where I Belong
Genre: poem
Name of magazine/journal: Apostrophe'O
Issue: July 2010

Author's bio: Simran is a graduate in Economics with a Government of India scholarship and a post graduate in Business Management (Human Resources). She currently works as a Asia Pacific Sector Leader for Hay Group, a global consulting firm. Alongside working in management consulting for the past 7.5 years with a diverse set of clients across the globe she writes poetry as a medium to express her thoughts and writing is her core area of interest. She is actively sharing it in poetry reading sessions in large clubs such as Delhi Poetree. Her work has been published online on websites such as www.freeindiamedia.com and http://apostrophe-o.com in the past. She maintains her own blog for poetry http://simran-oberoi.blogspot.com/. Simran was also a Coordinator for “Voices” which is a supplementary publication of The Statesman, for articles on non-government organizations like CRY and SAHAY. Apart from poetry her work related publications have been for HR magazines such as People Matters, Human Capital and Oil Asia – International Edition.

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Good Read Elsewhere: Simran Oberoi Multani's Where I Belong in Apostrophe'O

Good Read Elsewhere: Subhakar Das's Lorn in Danse Macabre
Writer's name: Subhakar Das
Title of work: Lorn
Genre: poem
Name of magazine/journal: Danse Macabre
Issue: XXXV Revolution

Author's bio: A dentist by training, his work, mostly poetry and short fiction, has appeared in various ezines and local newspapers. When not enamored by the beauty of the Brahmaputra, he is constantly fidgeting about the turmoil in Assam, which forms the basis for his first work of full-length fiction Where the Rain Falls. He currently resides in Guwahati, India.

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I woke up with a start and realized
I still have hours to my flight. People crowd
The concourse in their hustle for work or home
I turned and saw this girl, red-haired

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Good Read Elsewhere: Subhakar Das's Lorn in Danse Macabre

10 July 2010
Good Read Elsewhere: Luisa Igloria 's A String of Days in From the Fishouse
Writer's name: Luisa Igloria
Title of work: A String of Days
Genre: poem
Name of magazine/journal: From the Fishouse
Issue: July 2010

Author's bio: LUISA A. IGLORIA is a poet and associate professor at Old Dominion University, where she currently directs the MFA Creative Writing Program. Originally from Baguio City, she is the author of JUAN LUNA'S REVOLVER (2009 Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, University of Notre Dame Press), TRILL & MORDENT (WordTech Editions 2005), and 8 other books. Visit her at www.luisaigloria.com.

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