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Special Focus on Leong Liew Geok –“Backyard Azaleas”
This is Part Five 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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The Singapore Poetry Contest – Finalist
Tragic Flaws by Inez Tan After Mary Szybist My tragic flaw was to believe I could leave home behind, and then think I could never return. My tragic flaw was that I imagined myself as an orphan from...
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Special Focus on Leong Liew Geok –“The Gardener’s Had Enough”
This is Part Six 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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The Singapore Poetry Contest – Third Prize Winner
Zones by Ellen Redbird “Don’t you have city planners?” she asked. Los Angeles sprawl was not built all in one go. She told me of parks and gardens in Singapore, school uniforms, and diving to study...
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Special Focus on Leong Liew Geok –“Gingko and Bottlebrush”
This is Part Seven 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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The Singapore Poetry Contest – Second Prize Winner
Gifts by Sue Hyon Bae 1703: Singapura offered to British Alexander Hamilton as a gift —Singapura: 700 Years, National Museum of Singapore A white English couple, boiled pink in khaki shorts, takes...
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Special Focus on Leong Liew Geok –“The Gardener Returns”
This is Part Eight 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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The Singapore Poetry Contest – First Prize Winner
At the Dentist in Michigan by Inez Tan I have to touch the red velcro strap holding the mirror to the chair, so much like the one I used to bind the textbooks I clutched to my navy school pinafore...
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Special Focus on Leong Liew Geok –“Equatorial”
This is Part Nine 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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Our SG50 Wishes
Singapore turns 50 today, August 9, 2015. National Day celebrations are more lavish than ever, even as the country faces an uncertain future with the passing of its founding leaders and with a general...
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Special Focus on Leong Liew Geok –“The Gardener Gets High”
This is Part Ten 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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Tuesdays at Ipster Cafe
The Middle Ground, a Singapore news website, has started a weekly series of light satirical verse on Southeast Asian current affairs. Scribe Joshua Ip will entertain and inform in his Ipster Cafe. Ip...
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Special Focus on Leong Liew Geok –“The Gardener’s Alphabet”
This is the final part 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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Critical Portraits
Loke Hong Seng’s photographs show the physical and social landscapes of Singapore undergoing dramatic changes between 1963 and 1985. Yeo Workshop, an independent art gallery in Singapore, is holding an...
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Singapore Film in New York
Something to Write Home About, a Singapore arts festival to be held in New York City from September 12 – 22, will feature an evening of Singapore film. Curated by Kirsten Tan, five short films by...
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Singapore Dance in New York
The acclaimed Singapore dance troupe Maya Dance Theatre will return to New York to perform for the arts festival, Something To Write Home About. The troupe will be joined by Singai Tamil Sangam &...
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Taking the Long Way Home
“Taking the Long Way Home” is the poetic name of an evening of music composed and performed by two very accomplished Singaporean musicians. A part of the Singapore arts festival in New York, Something...
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Take Out, Take Home
“Take Out, Take Home: Footloose Writers on Food and the Sense of Belonging” is the literary arts event of Something To Write Home About, a Singapore arts festival organized wholly by volunteers in New...
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Singapore Playwrights in New York
Three distinctive Singaporean plays will take to the stage for a reading at the iconic New York City venue of La Mama Theater. A Book By Its Cover (Damon Chua) is a hilarious yet pointed glimpse into...
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The Necessary Stage
One of Singapore’s foremost theater groups, The Necessary Stage will be in New York City to perform a classic from their repertoire. Best Of follows one day in the life of a young Malay Muslim woman...
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