Category: Jee Leong Koh

  • We are very happy to announce that selected poems from the ten-year history of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (November 2007-October 2017) will be published in a special edition of the Hong Kong-based print poetry magazine, Voice & Verse, in February 2018.…

    Announcement: Collaboration with Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine
  • Iris A. Law Iris A. Law’s poem “Watching The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, I think of my father” is now published in the September 2012 issue of The Collagist. ‘Shells and rough silica scrape at the catacombs of my ears’……

    New updates on 10 Cha contributors: Iris A. Law, Ricky Garni, Christopher Anthony Leibow, Sridala Swami, Berit Ellingsen, Greg Santos, Jee Leong Koh, Lee Herrick, Kim-An Lieberman and Joseph O. Legaspi
  • – Jee Leong Koh’s poem “If the Fire Is in Your Apartment”, first published in Shit Creek Review, is now featured in Reprint Poetry.  – Jee Leong Koh’s poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha. –

  • – Jee Leong Koh’s “The Children and the Swan” and W.F. Lantry’s “All Souls, At Dawn” are now published in the Carmine Street Metrics section of the latest issue of Umbrella: A Journal of Poetry and Kindred Prose. Read W.F.…

  • – Read Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s “Journey” and “Paranormal Panorama” and Ivy Alvarez’s “The secret sister” and “The Museum of Inexplicable History” in the new issue of Mascara Literary Review. Also in the issue is Paul Sharrad’s review of Michelle Cahill’s Vishvarūpa…

  • – Royston Tester’s short story “A Beijing Minute” is now published in the July 2011 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Read it here. A review of Jee Leong Koh’s Seven Studies for a Self Portrait by Nicholas Liu is…

  • – Cha contributors Jee Leong Koh, Lyn Lifshin and Nicholas Y.B. Wong have new works published in the April 2011 issue of Pirene’s Fountain: A Journal of Poetry. Read Jee Leong’s “Sons and Daughters” and “Five Poems”; Lyn’s “Montmartre” and…

  • Three poems by Jee Leong Koh, “In His Other House”, “The Hospital Life” and “The Bowl”, are now featured on the “New Worlds” section of Mascara Literary Review. Read the poems here.0Jee Leong Koh’s poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.– ––

  • – Jee Leong Koh’s new poetry collection Seven Studies for a Self Portrait (Bench Press) is now available for purchase on Amazon. You can read a description of the book and a sample poem “Study #5: After Frida Kahlo” here.…

  • Image by Mark Bulwinkle Jee Leong Koh’s poem “Let This Year” is now published in the twelve issue of The Flea. Read it here. – Jee Leong Koh’s poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha. –

  • – Two poems by Jee Leong Koh are published in Issue #7 of Mixed Nerve.  – Jee Leong Koh’s poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha. –

  • Congratulations to Jee Leong Koh — his poem “Childhood Punishments” has been nominated by The Shit Creek Review for a Pushcart Prize. Read the poem here. ––Jee Leong Koh’s poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.––

  • Whale Sound is Nic Sebastian’s project. According to Nic, “My idea is to record and post readings of contemporary poems that affect me in one way or another.” Learn more about Whale Sound here.Several Cha contributors’ poems have been recorded…

  • Jee Leong Koh’s “A Lover’s Recourse”, a sequence of 49 ghazals, is now published in at Length.  ––Jee Leong Koh’s poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.––

  • GASPP: a Gay Anthology of Singapore Poetry and Prose is an anthology of writing by queer Singapore writers, co-edited by Ng Yi-Sheng with Dominic Chua, Jasmine Seah and Irene Oh. The book features works by several Cha contributors including Cyril Wong, Lee Yew…

  • Photography courtesy Paolo Aquino – Jee Leong Koh’s new poem “I Am My Names” is published in Zocalo Public Square. Read it here. – – Jee Leong Koh’s poetry was published in issue#6 of Cha. = =

  • Jee Leong Koh has several new poems published in Issue 12 of The Shit Creek Review. Read “Childhood Punishments“, “Approaching Thirtyseven“, “Chapter Six: Anal Sex“, “Ten Poems on the Plum Blossom” and “Digging in a bed of guilt, I grow…

  • Cha contributors Billy Collins (“Two Creatures”) and Jee Leong Koh (“Take heart and sing of love’s recourse: the river”) are featured in the new issue of Cimarron Review. – Billy Collins’s four Asian-themed poems were published in issue #5 of…

  • – – The first issue of The Walnut Literary Review, a bimonthly online literary journal devoted to writings and the visual arts, is now launched. It features creative works by a number of Cha contributors. Visit the review’s website and…

  • The April 2010 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore is now live and Cha contributors Cyril Wong, Toh Hsien Min and Wena Poon have works in it. Read Cyril’s poems “Fire” and “Something“; Hsien Min’s review of David Oliveria’ A…

  • Jee Leong Koh’s new poem “I pluck my theory of winter from the violin” is published in the current issue of The Raintowbn Review. You can purchase a copy of the journal here. – Jee Leong Koh’s poetry was published…

  • Jee Leong Koh’s new poem “What We Call Vegetables” is published in the sixth issue of Los Angeles Review. You can get a copy of the new issue here. Jee Leong Koh’s poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.

  • The October 2009 issue of Softblow is now live. Read Jee Leong Koh’s poems “Cheeks”, “Roof of the Mouth, Jaws and the Jaw-hinges”, “The Wine Bottle Holder” and “Decorative Figure On An Ornamental Background”. Jee Leong Koh’s poetry was published…

  • Jee Leong Koh is the September Guest Poet on the Academy of American Poets discussion forum. Come and talk about poetry here. Jee Leong Koh’s poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.

  • Jee Leong Koh has joined the advisory team for Mascara Literary Review. Mascara is currently accepting submissions of fiction and essays for Issue 6 to be published in November 2009. Jee Leong Koh’s poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.––