DS Maolalaí has been nominated four times for Best of the Net and three times for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been released in two collections, “Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden” (Encircle Press, 2016) and “Sad Havoc Among the Birds” (Turas Press, 2019). Inscriptions. reading through books in a second hand store like shopping at lunchtime for...
DS Maolalaí – three poems
DS Maolalaí has been nominated four times for Best of the Net and three times for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been released in two collections, “Love is Breaking Plates in the Garden” (Encircle Press, 2016) and “Sad Havoc Among the Birds” (Turas Press, 2019). Juice. to die with an apple in apple season is to die with a pleasure which cannot be taken...
Lynette Tan – Porous: A reflection on Nissim Ezekiel’s ‘Background, Casually’ (1965)
Lynette Tan Yuen Ling has a PhD in Film Studies and has published poetry, short stories, and children’s books. She is also Director of Studies at Residential College 4, National University of Singapore where she teaches Systems Thinking. Porous: A reflection on Nissim Ezekiel’s ‘Background, Casually’ (1965) I don’t come from anywhere anymore I come from everywhere and my skin tells me how...
Karolina Pawlik – “Maud of Enduring Shores”
Karolina Pawlik is a Shanghai-based researcher, lecturer and writer of mixed Polish and Russian origins. Trained in anthropology, she is mostly interested in visual culture, especially typography evolving in Shanghai since the Republican era. Some of her poems in Polish have been published in Poland. “Migraintion” is the first poetry series she has written in English. Maud of...
Nazarii A. Nazarov – ‘To His Library’ (Моїй бібліотеці)
Nazarii A. Nazarov holds a PhD in linguistics, and lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine. His poems have appeared in national anthologies in Ukraine (both in Ukrainian and in French translation). Previously published collections include Escape from Babylon (2006), Torch Bearer (2009), and translation collections Gardens of Adonis: Minor Anthology of World Poetry (2015, translations from Modern and...
Jennifer Fossenbell – ‘WEARING MYSELF BACKWARDS’
Jennifer Fossenbell recently relocated from Beijing, China back to Denver, USA. Her poetry and other linguistic experiments have appeared in online and print publications in China, the U.S., and Vietnam, most recently So & So, Black Warrior Review, The Hunger, and where is the river. She completed her creative writing MFA at the University of Minnesota in 2014. Also, there is no...
Zhou Jianing – “There, there…” (translated by Ed Allen)
Zhou Jianing 周嘉宁 was born in Shanghai in 1982, and is the author of the full-length novels Barren City and In the Dense Groves, and the short story collections How I Ruined My Life, One Step At A Time and Essential Beauty. Zhou has translated works by Alice Munro, Flannery O’Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...
Jennifer Fossenbell – “WTF DID / YOU DO / TO MY OCEAN / (swoosh)”
Jennifer Fossenbell recently relocated from Beijing, China back to Denver, USA. Her poetry and other linguistic experiments have appeared in online and print publications in China, the U.S., and Vietnam, most recently So & So, Black Warrior Review, The Hunger, and where is the river. She completed her creative writing MFA at the University of Minnesota in 2014. Also, there is no...
Habib Mohana – ‘The Dark Dawn’
Habib Mohana was born in 1969 in Daraban Kalan, a town in the district of Dera Imsail Khan, Pakistan. He is an assistant professor of English at Government Degree College No 3, D. I. Khan. He writes fiction in English, Urdu, and Saraiki (his mother tongue). He has four books under his belt, one in Urdu and three in Saraiki. His Saraiki novel forms part of the syllabus for the MA in Saraiki at...
Jennifer Fossenbell – ‘I WANT TO GO BACK / TO BELIEVING A STORY’
Jennifer Fossenbell recently relocated from Beijing, China back to Denver, USA. Her poetry and other linguistic experiments have appeared in online and print publications in China, the U.S., and Vietnam, most recently So & So, Black Warrior Review, The Hunger, and where is the river. She completed her creative writing MFA at the University of Minnesota in 2014. Also, there is no...