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Alternative Dimension
Singaporean artist Maureen Hoon is showing her latest works at Project: ARTspace, a gallery on lower 5th Avenue, NYC. Titled “Alternative Dimension,” the show displays Hoon’s sustained explorations...
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The Rain Must Be Softer in Cardiff
Cardiff by Stephanie Ye You change out of your school uniform into street clothes in the Bishan station washroom, then take the MRT to Lavender. Ten stops, one transfer. The east-bound train is packed,...
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Foolish Questions – The Poetry of Stanley Moss
Review: Stanley Moss, It’s About Time (Hopewell, 2015 and Carcanet, 2016), 176 pages. The opening poem of this new collection by Stanley Moss is a searing, and unapologetically...
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SPOMENIK
They loom over the landscape of the Balkans, the spomeniks, the few of them left over from a ghost country of an earlier era. Commissioned by the former Yugoslavian President Josip Tito, these gigantic...
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Charlie Chan Hock Chye in New York!
NYT bestseller The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye, a graphic novel by Singaporean Sonny Liew will be making its long-awaited appearance in NYC. Through the fictional portrait of an artist-citizen, Liew...
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2nd Singapore Poetry Contest
To celebrate Poetry Writing Month this April, Singapore Poetry is holding its second annual poetry contest. We are looking for poems that include the word “Singapore” (or its variants) in some creative...
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An Archivist and Other Poems by Euginia Tan
an archivist by Euginia Tan should all names return to the world? he would ask himself this, on the nights he stays up scavenging for spirits buried under dried leaves. the mango tree is the tropical...
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Celebrate Poetry and Music
In celebration of National Poetry Month here in April, the Cheah Chan Duo (Phillip Cheah, voice; Trudy Chan, piano) will be presenting a unique recital of songs exploring different musical settings of...
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Inbound/Outbound: A Singapore Poet’s Recollections of Boston, With a Playlist
By YONG Shu Hoong I’m thinking that a pizza parlour might be an appropriate place to start. It is, to me, a way of breaking the ice (well, the temperature was settling just below freezing point that...
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Me Migrant
Three poems from Me Migrant, a new book of poetry by Md Mukul Hossine, transcreated by Cyril Wong with the help of Marc Nair, and translated from Bangla with help from Fariha Imran & Farouk...
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Review of “Giving Ground” by Theophilus Kwek
Giving Ground by Theophilus Kwek Singapore: Ethos Books, 2016 Review by Eric Norris Giving Ground, Theophilus Kwek’s second book, begins with an epigraph from Horace and an...
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Another Dunkirk: the Poetry of Jason Irwin
Another Dunkirk by Jee Leong Koh I arrived in America excited to be lost. I was to be a graduate student of creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, but what was I really to be? Unknown to me, the...
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Nothing Holds Water These Days
Pack (from And The Walls Come Crumbling Down) by Tania De Rozario It’s rainy season by the time I’ve booked my flight and the weather is seeping into every aspect of my life. Above and around the...
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Sold Out – The Poetry of Bob Hart
Sold Out by Jee Leong Koh Bob Hart passed away on the morning of August 13, 2014. It was a Saturday. He was 83. Born in 1931, he grew up in Harlem, on 145th Street, 142nd Street, and 158th Street, he...
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Keep Your Piece Nine Years
A Review of Shirley Geok-Lin Lim’s DO YOU LIVE IN? and ARS POETICA FOR THE DAY (Ethos Books, Singapore, 2015) by Helaine L. Smith In Act II of Shaw’s Pygmalion, Alfred Doolittle,...
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You Are Invited to an Evening of Food, Literature, Music, and Art
We’re excited to invite you to a captivating evening of food, literature, music, and art at the National Opera Center (330 7th Ave, Manhattan) on Thursday, June 16, 7:30 pm, to benefit the 2nd...
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The Bird and the Broom
The Bird and the Broom: the Poetry of R. Nemo Hill by Jee Leong Koh An introduction given at the launch reading of In No Man’s Ear by R. Nemo Hill (Dos Madres Press) on June 2, 2016, at KGB Bar, New...
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First Asian American Vaudeville Performer
A Singaporean’s new musical comedy receives a staged reading in NYC. Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America, Inc. presents Frank: The Musical, written and directed by Marcus Yi. From the website: “A...
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Singapore Unbound Fellowship
Singapore Unbound Fellowship (deadline June 24, 2016) WHO WE ARE SINGAPORE UNBOUND is an exciting new non-profit dedicated to free and open cultural exchange between Singapore and the USA. We...
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SLF NYC Benefit!
By all accounts, the Benefit for the 2nd Singapore Literature Festival in NYC was a great success. We were heartened by the attendance of so many benefactors, well-wishers and partners of the festival....
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