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Recalling Mother
Another must-see show in Something To Write Home About, a Singapore arts festival in New York, is the production of Recalling Mother by Checkpoint Theatre. It will play only for one night, Monday,...
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Closing Night – Cursed Earth
For the closing night of Something To Write Home About, a Singapore arts festival in New York, professional storyteller Verena Tay will bring you four tales about a piece of land in Singapore that was...
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The US Launch of UNION
The US launch of UNION – featuring Alvin Pang, Ravi Shankar, Sharon Dolin, Jee Leong Koh, and Amanda Lee Koe Sunday, September 27, 5.30pm to 6.30pm, Madison Square Park, NYC, a part of Singapore:...
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Featured Poem
The Fried Chicken by Jennifer Anne Champion The Fried Chicken was first discovered shortly after the extinction of the Fried Dodo bird. The Fried Chicken can reach a ground speed of about 15 km/hr...
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Phoenix Claws and Jade Trees
Second Saturdays reading series, the monthly platform for Singaporean and American authors in New York City, begins its new season on October 10 with a very special treat. Chef Kian Lam Kho will speak...
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I Am A Unicorn (But No One Believes Me) by Jennifer Anne Champion The truth is I am a unicorn. But no one believes me. People ask, If you’re a unicorn, where’s your horn? And I’m too embarrassed to...
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Bedok Jetty by Jinat Rehana Begum At five, I crossed the sea on a dare. They pestered and pushed, till finally the youngest of the tribe, I wobbled onto the long grey finger, sea to the left of me,...
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Suchen Christine Lim Reading in New York
One of Singapore’s most distinguished writers, Suchen Christine Lim will read from her new novel The River’s Song (Aurora Metro Books) at the Kinokuniya Bookstore in New York, next to Bryant Park, on...
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Keeping Things Real
Two young American poets pitched an idea to a small Singapore press. Separated by an enormous distance, but joined by a common enthusiasm, poets and press have given birth to a striking new anthology....
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Singapore’s Favorite Poem
Janet Liew, poet and educator, nominates Arthur Yap’s “2 mothers in a h d b playground” as her favorite Singapore poem. Lim writes, “It’s amusing for the obvious and keen competition between the two...
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Rebuilding This Broken Path
SP is pleased to present a second essay from Poets on Growth: An Anthology of Poetry and Craft (Math Paper Press, 2015), edited by Peter LaBerg and Talin Tahajian. (Read the first essay by Timothy Liu...
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Aadho aalo aadho andhar (Shades of light and dark) by Rajib Shil Jibon, translated by Shivaji Das and Gopika Jadeja, with Debabrata Basu and Souradip Bhattacharya Perhaps I experience something the...
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Poets Are Living People
SP is pleased to present the third essay from the new anthology Poets on Growth: An Anthology of Poetry and Craft, edited by Peter LaBerg and Talin Tahajian, and released by Singapore-based publisher...
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Second Saturdays – Oct 2015
Text by Jee Leong Koh and photos by Guy E. Humphrey October 10: The Second Saturdays Reading Series opened its third season in New York City with a delicious treat. The featured author Kian Lam Kho...
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Featured Poem
Prayer flags by Janet Liew Like a greedy child, the sun has sucked all the colour out of these flags. Strung up in repeated chromatic sequence—blue, white, red, green, then yellow—from the low places...
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Singapore’s Favorite Poem
Jinat Rehana Begum, educator and author of First Fires, nominates Isa Kamari’s poem “The Koran Chanter of Geylang Serai” as her favorite poem by a Singaporean. She writes, “I love poems that preserve...
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Saffron from Singapore
How does Singapore appear in the imaginings of contemporary writers not from Singapore? What do writers find poetic about Singapore? How does the country resist the imagination? Reference Singapore is...
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Open Letter in Response to National Arts Council CEO Kathy Lai’s Letter to...
I am greatly saddened by the NAC CEO’s defense of censorship in response to Ong Keng Sen’s radio interview and Haresh Sharma’s Cultural Medallion speech. In his hard-hitting interview, Ong Keng Sen...
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UNION
Union, a literary anthology jointly published by Ethos Books Singapore and Drunken Boat Media, celebrates 50 years of writing from Singapore and 15 years of the US-based journal Drunken Boat. Editors...
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Paris Mon Amour
Singapour Mon Amour, held for the first time in Paris in June 2015, was a presentation of Singapore’s contemporary art by innovative curatorial platform Lowave and its French partners, musée du quai...
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