A. J. Huffman’s poetry, fiction, haiku, and photography have appeared in hundreds of national and international journals, including Labletter, The James Dickey Review, and Offerta Speciale, in which her work appeared in both English and Italian translation. On an Asphalt Carousel I spin like a horse without reins. Head inclined, my mind melts like fresh tar, drenches the floor in a...
Ana Pugatch is the Poetry Heritage Fellow at George Mason University in Virginia. She is a Harvard graduate who taught English in Zhuhai and Shanghai. While living in China, she also completed the Woodenfish Foundation’s Humanistic Buddhist Monastic Life Program. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in publications such as The Los Angeles Review, Foothill Poetry Journal, Short Edition...
Piyal Kariyawasam is a Sri Lankan writer, theatre activist, lecturer, and director of documentaries. Locally, he has won state awards for fiction and theatre. He has received international scholarships to U.S.A. and India. He represented Sri Lanka at the 1st China-South Asia Literature Forum, China, and at international events in Bhutan and Azerbaijan. He has published 5 works of fiction, as well...
Yejia Zhang is a second-generation Chinese Canadian studying Medicine in Ontario, Canada. She seeks to use the arts to explore pluralism and eventually inform her future practice. For her, stories are crucial to illuminating the complexity of people and their differing needs in a field that is intrinsically human. The Cyclical Nature of Everything On July 1st at 10 p.m., my father drives me to...
Ren Jie writes poetry and fiction. He recently graduated from Yale-NUS College in Singapore, majoring in Literature and Creative Writing, and currently works at NYU Shanghai as a Global Writing and Speaking Fellow. In his writing, Ren Jie engages with and explores questions about culture, religiosity, and the experience and narratives that surround familial life. Amnesia in the Forest of...
Ren Jie writes poetry and fiction. He recently graduated from Yale-NUS College in Singapore, majoring in Literature and Creative Writing, and currently works at NYU Shanghai as a Global Writing and Speaking Fellow. In his writing, Ren Jie engages with and explores questions about culture, religiosity, and the experience and narratives that surround familial life. Three Business Days Abroad...
is called
(Was) ‘Revolutionary’.
distorted t shirt fronts
feet buried
in concrete.
words swallowed
self-help pills.
In bronze.
Syntax torn
from lingering
roots.
#.
sold.
bright plastic
petrochemical packaging.
sacred phrases
fired from
relentless rifled lips
by those who would have sunk the nails in
(Then).
Laetitia Keok is a poet, writer, & English Literature student from Singapore. Her work has appeared in Vagabond City Lit, Tongue Tied Magazine & elsewhere. Memorabilia Shanghai is so much like Singapore—another cityscape brimming with new beginnings. You step out of a six-hour flight into a world that still seems unchanged, your entire life stuffed into a single luggage...
JGeorge’s poems appear or is forthcoming in several online and print journals, most recently in Mookychick, The Initial Journal, Active Muse, TROU Lit Mag, Peach Street Mag, The Martian Chronicles, and FishfoodMag, and the anthologies Boundless (Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival 2019) and Love, As We Know It (Delhi Poetry Slam). She currently lives in Pondicherry, where she is...
JGeorge’s poems appear or is forthcoming in several online and print journals, most recently in Mookychick, The Initial Journal, Active Muse, TROU Lit Mag, Peach Street Mag, The Martian Chronicles, and FishfoodMag, and the anthologies Boundless (Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival 2019) and Love, As We Know It (Delhi Poetry Slam). She currently lives in Pondicherry, where she is...