{"id":342,"date":"2009-11-24T17:25:11","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T22:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lanternreview.com\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2009-11-25T11:01:23","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T16:01:23","slug":"friends-neighbors-cha-issue-9-kartika-review-issue-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/24\/friends-neighbors-cha-issue-9-kartika-review-issue-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends & Neighbors: Cha Issue 9, Kartika Review Issue 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our friends at Cha: An Asian Literary Journal<\/em><\/a> and Kartika Review<\/em><\/a> both put up their newest issues last week.\u00a0\u00a0Please head on over to check them out. Here’s quick rundown of the goods in store:<\/p>\n

\"Cha<\/a>
Cha Issue 9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal<\/a><\/em> celebrates its second anniversary with a stunning 9th Issue, guest edited by Reid Mitchell (poetry) and Jonathan Mendelsohn (prose).\u00a0 I especially admired the cinematic textures of “Mope,” the second of two poems<\/a> by Caroline Bird, the earthy resonances of Arlene Kim’s “The Tiger-Brother<\/a>,” and the deft syntactical footwork of Kate Rogers’ “Sai Ying Pun Sestina<\/a>.”\u00a0 Also worth checking out is their Lost Teas<\/a> section, which features reprinted work that has been “lost” due to the folding of its original place of publication.<\/p>\n

\"Kartika<\/a>
Kartika Review Issue 6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kartika Review<\/em>‘s Issue 6<\/a> is also fantastic, featuring poetry, fiction, and non-fiction by a number of rising Asian American artists.\u00a0 One of my own poems was selected for this issue, and I am both thrilled and honored that they’ve chosen to include my work in such an exciting lineup.\u00a0 My personal favorites from Issue 6’s poetry section are Mary Chi-Whi Kim’s “Pyongyang Phantom Feeling, 1952<\/a>,” for its sharply visceral, arresting imagery, and Lee Minh Sloca’s conversational, but incisive examination of Asian American masculinity in “Just[ice] Please<\/a>.”\u00a0 Kartika<\/em> also just announced its Pushcart nominations.\u00a0 In poetry, they selected Kenji Liu’s beautifully spare “Letter to Myself as a Newborn<\/a>” and Ocean Vuong’s intimate elegy, “Dear Vietnam<\/a>,” both from Issue 5.\u00a0 Congrats to both poets on this honor!<\/p>\n

Many congratulations to both Cha<\/em> and Kartika<\/em> on the launch of these new issues.\u00a0 We admire the work that you’re doing, and look forward to reading what’s next!<\/p>\n

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Our friends at Cha: An Asian Literary Journal and Kartika Review both put up their newest issues last week.\u00a0\u00a0Please head on over to check them out. Here’s quick rundown of the goods in store: Cha: An Asian Literary Journal celebrates its second anniversary with a stunning 9th Issue, guest edited by Reid Mitchell (poetry) and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}