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A Star-Lovely Art
Not many Singaporean writers deserve the accolade of literary pioneer as much as Goh Poh Seng (1936 – 2010). He wrote what is now widely recognized as the first Singaporean novel in English, If We...
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Second Saturdays Reading Series – April 2015
Text by Paul Rozario-Falcone. Photos by Paul Rozario-Falcone and Hong-Ling Wee. April’s Second Saturdays featured ceramicist Hong-Ling Wee, a Singaporean artist who has been based in New York for...
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Thaipusam Babies
Ramsundar Lakshminarayanan is a photographer based in New York City. From 2010 to 2014 he lived in Singapore and took his first lessons in photography at the Photographic Society of Singapore (PSS). In...
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Calling for Singapore Literature
American editors are showing a keen interest in the literature coming out of Singapore. In May last year, the much-esteemed journal Prairie Schooner published a Fusion issue of new Singapore writing...
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Featured Poem
A Chinese Box by Meiko Ko A Chinese jewelry box believes that it’s suffering from an identity crisis, because of the mismatched items in it: plastic earring fragments, woe, some maps of the world, a...
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Walking on Fire
M Ravi is a name both loved and hated in Singapore. A lawyer who has been involved in some of the most high profile constitutional challenges, he has argued against the mandatory death penalty, and...
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Featured Poem
A Photo of Jennifer by Meiko Ko The first sounds of the English language came from the Jennifer box, which was installed on the roof of every HDB flat in the Bedok region. Essentially these were...
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Asian Festival of Children’s Content
The Asian Festival of Children’s Content (30 May – 6 June, 2015) brings together content creators and producers with parents, teachers, librarians, and anyone interested in quality Asian content for...
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Featured Poem
The Last Ballad of Lah (by the Popiah Man in the Coffeeshop) by Meiko Ko And if I were to say, Ooi, my Lah is one more sound in the world. One more definition in the world, like how a king claims a...
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Hi-Lo Fide-Lio
If you had been in South Hadley, Massachusetts, in April, you would have had a chance to hear the music of Hoh Chung Shih. A leading light of Singapore’s classical music scene, Hoh was the resident...
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No Other City
LONTAR is the world’s only journal focusing on Southeast Asian speculative fiction. The brainchild of series editor Jason Erik Lundberg, the journal is published from Singapore, first by Math Paper...
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Second Saturdays Reading Series – May 2015
Text by Jee Leong Koh and Photos by Paul Rozario-Falcone and Philip M. Perry For the first time ever, Second Saturdays was held in the historic neighborhood of the Village in May. Our host Janice Tan...
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Special Focus on Leong Liew Geok –“Father’s Orchids”
The intent of Singapore Poetry’s “Special Focus” series is to highlight an important aspect of the work of an established poet of Singapore. This aspect may be a thematic thread, formal preoccupation...
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Requiem for the Factory
“This is a writing of light,” so Requiem for the Factory, this wonderfully idiosyncratic and provocative book, identifies itself. And it is a very apt self-description for this work of photography...
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Special Focus on Leong Liew Geok –“The Gardener Walks to the Bus Stop”
This is Part Two of SP’s first “Special Focus” series looking at the extraordinary gardening poems of Leong Liew Geok. Born in Penang, Malaysia, Leong moved to Singapore in 1981. Thereafter, she...
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Second Saturdays Reading Series – 13 June 2015
Text by Jee Leong Koh and Photographs by Yun-chun Chua Hosted by Paul and Al in their beautiful Carroll Gardens home, the last Second Saturdays reading before summer hiatus featured Brooklyn-based...
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Special Focus on Leong Liew Geok –“A Walk in the Japanese Garden, Jurong”
This is Part Three of SP’s first “Special Focus” series, looking at the extraordinary gardening poems of Leong Liew Geok. Born in Penang, Malaysia, Leong moved to Singapore in 1981. Thereafter, she...
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Something To Write Home About
Press release: Something To Write Home About: Singapore Arts Festival in New York 12 – 22 September 2015 NEW YORK – Inspired by their love for their home country, a group of New York-based creatives...
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Special Focus on Leong Liew Geok –“The Gardener Talks to Plants”
This is Part Four of SP’s first “Special Focus” series, looking at the extraordinary gardening poems of Leong Liew Geok. Born in Penang, Malaysia, Leong moved to Singapore in 1981. Thereafter, she...
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Winners of The First Singapore Poetry Contest
Congratulations to the winners of the first Singapore Poetry Contest! Open to non-Singaporeans living in the United States, the contest sought American perspectives on Singapore in the island-state’s...
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