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Shelly Bryant – five poems

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SHELLY BRYANT divides her year between Shanghai and Singapore, working as a poet, writer, and translator. She is the author of eight volumes of poetry (Alban Lake and Math Paper Press), a pair of travel guides for the cities of Suzhou and Shanghai (Urbanatomy), and a book on classical Chinese gardens (Hong Kong University Press). She has translated work from the Chinese for Penguin Books, Epigram...

Nancy L. Conyers – ‘Honey Lou’

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Nancy L. Conyers has an MFA from Antioch University in Los Angeles and lived in Shanghai from 2004-2009. She has been published in Lunch Ticket, The Manifest-Station, Role Reboot, The Citron Review, Alluvium, Tiferet, and Hupdaditty, and contributed the last chapter to Unconditional: A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child, by Telaina Eriksen. Honey Lou is adapted from a novel she is...

Verena Tay – four poems

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Within Singapore, Verena Tay (www.verenatay.com) has published two short story collections, Spectre (2012) and Spaces (2016), and four play collections, and edited twelve fiction anthologies, including Math Paper Press’ popular Balik Kampung series. She is now working on her first novel as part of her PhD studies in Creative Writing at Swansea University.     relations blocked*   woman...

Luis Morales-Navarro – three poems

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Luis Morales-Navarro (莫路) is a writer/coder interested in natural language processing, computational literature, networked physical computing, poetry and speculative fiction. Currently he is a Resident Research Fellow at New York University Shanghai.   Nongfu Spring Clusters of dust blossom with the winter In my body there are kegs of Chinese beer I inhale blue-white air Walls drip sweat and all...

Cyril Wong – three poems

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Cyril Wong is the author of The Lover’s Inventory, and other works of poetry and fiction in Singapore.   On Universality Ben Lerner writes in The Hatred of Poetry, “Everybody can write a poem,” and asks if “the distillation of your innermost being …   [can] make a readership, however small, a People …?” Maybe because I’m not American   or because I was never a...

Miho Kinnas – two poems

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Miho Kinnas was re-transplanted from Shanghai to Carolina. She struggles with non-metric units but is beginning to carry on with writerly activities. Her poetry collection Today Fish Only was published by Math Paper Press in 2015, and her work also appears in The Classical Gardens of Shanghai (HKU Press 2016) and Quixoteca: Poems East of La Mancha (Chameleon Press 2016). Her translations have...

Shelly Bryant – six poems

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SHELLY BRYANT divides her year between Shanghai and Singapore, working as a poet, writer, and translator. She is the author of eight volumes of poetry (Alban Lake and Math Paper Press), a pair of travel guides for the cities of Suzhou and Shanghai (Urbanatomy), and a book on classical Chinese gardens (Hong Kong University Press). She has translated work from the Chinese for Penguin Books, Epigram...

Brandon Marlon – ‘Shanghai Ghetto’

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BRANDON MARLON is a writer from Ottawa, Canada. He received his B.A. in Drama & English from the University of Toronto and his M.A. in English from the University of Victoria. His poetry was awarded the Harry Hoyt Lacey Prize in Poetry (Fall 2015), and his writing has been published in 170+ publications in 23 countries. www.brandonmarlon.com.   Shanghai Ghetto Destitute refugees craving...

Cyril Wong – three poems

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Cyril Wong is the author of The Lover’s Inventory, and other works of poetry and fiction in Singapore. Fantasia 1 Dreaming of Kyoto in Osaka and growing old in that town where shrines would knock tranquility into us at every turn and a Buddha statue is composed from ashes of the dead. But food would hold no flavour for your curried tongue; ryokans have no proper chairs and the floor is not...

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