Yunqin Wang is a writer based in Shanghai / New York. She writes in English, Chinese, and occasionally Japanese. She has been an editor for The Poetry Society of New York. Currently, she lives in Shanghai, where she serves food at a beer bar and music at a livehouse. The First Dream On the cold hospital bed, a baby’s heart beat like a sheet of flame. Something small and strong in an...
David Tait’s poetry collections include Self-Portrait with The Happiness, which received an Eric Gregory Award and was shortlisted for the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, and The AQI, which was shortlisted for the Ledbury Forte Prize. His poems appear in Poetry Review, Magma, The Rialto and The Guardian. In 2017 he was Poet-in-Residence for The Wordsworth Trust. He lives in Shanghai and...
Choo Yi Feng is currently an undergraduate majoring in life sciences at the National University of Singapore (NUS). His short stories have been published in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Alluvium, the journal of Literary Shanghai, and Curios. His aspirations are divided between becoming a fiction writer and a marine biologist. An Investor’s Guide to Abyssal Burial Imagine with me...
The Ogura Hyakunin-Isshu is one of the most popular poetry collections in classical Japanese literature. Since its reputed compilation by Fujiwara no Teika around 1235, it has been widely read and parodied. Artists produced artworks inspired by the poems, and a card game made in modern times is still played in Japanese homes. The presence of classical poetry stars, including the authors of The...
DS Maolalaí has been nominated eight times for Best of the Net and five 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). The onion smell. my window is open. through it stumble words, each holding a glass to its...
DS Maolalaí has been nominated eight times for Best of the Net and five 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). The mattress. the building manager works for a company which also sells furniture. bargaintown...
DS Maolalaí has been nominated eight times for Best of the Net and five 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). The safety of populated lights. cars on the street which settle into spaces, heavy and hanging...
LeeAnne Lavender is an international educator and poet living in Shanghai. She is Canadian, and has made Shanghai her home for six years. She has also lived in Kenya and South Korea, and is spending more and more time writing, immersed in the beauty of words. Shanghai Moment There’s a spot on the Huangpu path where music floats to the sun. A trumpet croons, alto tones rich and burnished...
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...