Since January 2018, every issue of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine features
an English-language section of poetry.
Editor: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho

ISSUE 48: Extradition (currently accepting submissions)
[Call for English-language Poems] In Issue 48 of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine 聲韻詩刊 (August/September 2019), we will publish an English-language section on "Extradition". In poetry, tell us what you think about the topic.
Poems can be sent to swpoetry@gmail.com before 30 June 2019 with the subject line "VV: Extra: [your initials]" for consideration. Each poet can submit up to TWO poems. Editor of this section: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho.
Note: Only poets whose work is accepted will be notified. If you do not hear a response within two weeks, please assume that your work has not been selected for publication.
[Call for English-language Poems] In Issue 48 of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine 聲韻詩刊 (August/September 2019), we will publish an English-language section on "Extradition". In poetry, tell us what you think about the topic.
Poems can be sent to swpoetry@gmail.com before 30 June 2019 with the subject line "VV: Extra: [your initials]" for consideration. Each poet can submit up to TWO poems. Editor of this section: Tammy Lai-Ming Ho.
Note: Only poets whose work is accepted will be notified. If you do not hear a response within two weeks, please assume that your work has not been selected for publication.

ISSUE 49: Coffee (rescheduled; forthcoming)
T. S. Eliot: 'I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.'
—"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".
In Issue 49 of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine (October/November 2019), we will publish an English-language section on "Coffee".
T. S. Eliot: 'I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.'
—"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".
In Issue 49 of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine (October/November 2019), we will publish an English-language section on "Coffee".

- ISSUE 47: Loneliness in the City (forthcoming)
In Issue 47 of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine (June/July 2019), we will publish an English-language section on "Loneliness in the City". What are some of the possible relationships between the individual and a city? What are cultural expressions that speak specifically to the city experience? How does one find and lose oneself in the city? Is unconditional self-love or love for others possible in the city?

ISSUE 46: Intercourse & Intertextuality
In Issue 46 of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine (double issue: April/May 2019), we published an English-language section on Intercourse & Intertextuality.
/// POETS featured in the INTERCOURSE & INTERTEXTUALITY section: Stvenson George ◍ Matt Turner ◍ Lucas Klein ◍ Alex Dreppec ◍ Gleb Shulpyakov ◍ Haochi Kiang ◍ Linda Ashok ◍ Low Kian Seh ◍ Quenntis Ashby ◍ Anna Yin ◍ Felix Lo ◍ Stephanie Han ◍ Ilaria Maria Sala ◍ Ang Jin Yong ◍ Piera Chen ◍ Yunte Huang ◍ Michael O'Sullivan ◍ Joshua Ip ◍ Suzanne Lai ◍ Chris Song ///
In Issue 46 of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine (double issue: April/May 2019), we published an English-language section on Intercourse & Intertextuality.
/// POETS featured in the INTERCOURSE & INTERTEXTUALITY section: Stvenson George ◍ Matt Turner ◍ Lucas Klein ◍ Alex Dreppec ◍ Gleb Shulpyakov ◍ Haochi Kiang ◍ Linda Ashok ◍ Low Kian Seh ◍ Quenntis Ashby ◍ Anna Yin ◍ Felix Lo ◍ Stephanie Han ◍ Ilaria Maria Sala ◍ Ang Jin Yong ◍ Piera Chen ◍ Yunte Huang ◍ Michael O'Sullivan ◍ Joshua Ip ◍ Suzanne Lai ◍ Chris Song ///

ISSUE 45: Ecopoetry
In Issue 45 of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine (double issue: April/May 2019), we published an English-language section on Ecopoetry—poems that are environmentally conscious.
/// POETS featured in the Ecopoetry section: Craig Santos Perez ◍ Bernard Kean Capinpin ◍ KIng Llanza ◍ Marc Nair ◍ Lian-Hee Wee ◍ Andrew Barker ◍ Thomas Leonard D. Shaw ◍Anurak Saelaow ◍ Stephen Page ◍ John Oliver Ladaga ◍ Cheng Tim Tim ◍ Gino Pastoriza Paradela ◍ Sally Dellow ◍ Susan Lavender ◍Kevin Cowdall ◍ Lian Sing ◍ Crispin Rodrigues ◍ James Walton ◍ Vinita Agrawal ◍ Michael Liaw ◍ Akin Jeje ◍ Rodrigo Dela Peña Jr. ◍ Grace Wong ◍ Jim Pascual Agustin ◍ Joan Gelfand ◍ Paola Caronni ◍ Loren Goodman ///
In Issue 45 of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine (double issue: April/May 2019), we published an English-language section on Ecopoetry—poems that are environmentally conscious.
/// POETS featured in the Ecopoetry section: Craig Santos Perez ◍ Bernard Kean Capinpin ◍ KIng Llanza ◍ Marc Nair ◍ Lian-Hee Wee ◍ Andrew Barker ◍ Thomas Leonard D. Shaw ◍Anurak Saelaow ◍ Stephen Page ◍ John Oliver Ladaga ◍ Cheng Tim Tim ◍ Gino Pastoriza Paradela ◍ Sally Dellow ◍ Susan Lavender ◍Kevin Cowdall ◍ Lian Sing ◍ Crispin Rodrigues ◍ James Walton ◍ Vinita Agrawal ◍ Michael Liaw ◍ Akin Jeje ◍ Rodrigo Dela Peña Jr. ◍ Grace Wong ◍ Jim Pascual Agustin ◍ Joan Gelfand ◍ Paola Caronni ◍ Loren Goodman ///

ISSUE 44: 1818
In 1818—two centuries ago—two important literary works, Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias” and Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, appeared. In Issue 44 of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine (November/December 2018), we published an English-language section honouring these two tammyholaiming.com/1818-2/works.
/// POETS featured in the 1818 section: Joshua Ip ◍ Anthony Tao ◍ Lian-Hee Wee ◍ Rebecca Ng ◍ Eileen Chong ◍ Kenneth Pobo ◍ Andrew Barker ◍ Lydia Kwa ◍ Akin Jeje ◍ Steven Schroeder ◍ Jade Hui ◍ Cheng Tim Tim ◍ David W. Landrum ◍ Stvenson George Tupas ◍ Lune Loh ◍ Ankush Banerjee ///
Read Tammy Lai-Ming Ho's 1818 editorial here.
In 1818—two centuries ago—two important literary works, Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias” and Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, appeared. In Issue 44 of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine (November/December 2018), we published an English-language section honouring these two tammyholaiming.com/1818-2/works.
/// POETS featured in the 1818 section: Joshua Ip ◍ Anthony Tao ◍ Lian-Hee Wee ◍ Rebecca Ng ◍ Eileen Chong ◍ Kenneth Pobo ◍ Andrew Barker ◍ Lydia Kwa ◍ Akin Jeje ◍ Steven Schroeder ◍ Jade Hui ◍ Cheng Tim Tim ◍ David W. Landrum ◍ Stvenson George Tupas ◍ Lune Loh ◍ Ankush Banerjee ///
Read Tammy Lai-Ming Ho's 1818 editorial here.

ISSUE 43: YOUNG VOICES (September 2018)
/// POETS featured in the YOUNG VOICES section: Christian S. Baldomero ◍ Troy Cabida ◍ Jessica Chan ◍ Cheng Tim Tim ◍ Lawdenmarc Dacamora ◍ Tiny Diapana ◍ Shehzar Doja ◍ Dave Drayton ◍ Juan Miguel Estocio ◍ Angela Gabrielle Fabunan ◍ Pinky Ho ◍ Priyanka Kapoor ◍ Rachel Mendis ◍ Gino Pastoriza Paradela ◍ Mayumi Paras ◍ Zoria Petkoska ◍ Phoebe Poon ◍ Rohith ◍ Mitsu Sahay ◍ Jaime Santirso ◍ Aishwarya Shrivastav ◍ Lakan Umali ◍ Dexter G. Yim ///
Read Tammy Lai-Ming Ho's YOUNG VOICES editorial here.
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ISSUE 41: FOOD (May 2018)
/// POETS featured in the FOOD section: Leung Ping-kwan ◍ Giovena Songwenjia Wang ◍ Michael Anthony Ingham ◍ Eileen Chong ◍ Jun Pang ◍ Alistair Noon ◍ Ana Padilla Fornieles ◍ Jason S Polley ◍ Nguyễn-Hoàng Quyên ◍ Danton Remoto ◍ Belle Ling ◍ Zoria Petkoska Kalajdjieva ◍ Phoebe Poon ◍ Michael Tsang ◍ Sithuraj Ponraj ◍ Lawrence Pettener ◍ Cheng Tim Tim ◍ Nicole Lai ◍ Jiaoyang Li
◍ Paola Caronni ◍ Kit Fan ◍ Sally Yue Lin ◍ Shikhandin ///
Read Tammy Lai-Ming Ho's FOOD editorial here.

ISSUE 39-40 (Double Issue):
CHA Tenth Anniversary Special Feature (March 2018)
【A】Cover: Zoran Poposki
EDITORIAL
Tammy Lai-Ming Ho /Varied and Plenty: Ten Years of Cha Poetry and a New Beginning at Voice & Verse
Photographs by Aaron Anfinson
Daryl Qilin Yam/A Contingent of Birds
Piera Chen/Advice
Toh Hsien Min/After Catullus
Joshua Marie Wilkinson/After Reading Gozo Yoshimasu
Eleanor Goodman/Alleyways, Shanghai
Ouyang Yu/Bad English
Natalie Linh Bolderston/Aubade
Jeffrey Javier/Blackout
Shikhandin/Bones
Bernice Chauly/But we would have to write letters
Nick Admussen/Can Send Not Receive
Kathlene Postma/Chinese Box
Judith Huang/Chinatown Bus
Janice Ko Luo/Close Quarters, 1962
Grace Chia/Dog Paddling
Henry Wei Leung/Disobedience
Jason Eng Hun Lee/Dragons Rising
Arthur Leung/Earthen Houses
Michael Tsang/Epicentre
Divya Rajan/Factory Girls
Wawa/Farming in the Air
Reid Mitchell/Flowers are as Permanent as Brick
Stuart Christie/Father and Son
Joshua Ip/first date at jumbo eafood
Boris But/Forgotten Golds
Elbert Lee/Ginger Flower Woman
Aryanil Mukherjee / Hand Movements of a Puppeteer
Eliot Weinberger/From a Hymn to the Goddess of the Three Cities
Russell C. Leong/Forms of Flesh
Lai Kuen Seimao Chan/From “Dead Cat Soushi” (after Makuranosoushi’s The Pillow Book)
May Huang/Hong Kong
Shirley Geok-lin Lim/Hong Kong in Black Today
Jennifer Wong/Home
Marc Vincenz/Hunchback Rat of the Red Star Hotel
Joshua Burns/Huang Yong Ping
Reid Mitchell/I Planted A Banana Tree Outside My Window
Louise Ho/Fact/Fiction
Louise Ho/Muse
Marjorie Evasco/In the Desert
Isabela Banzon/Kids Everywhere and You and Me in Nowhere
Alan Jefferies/Last Stand
Luca Lum/Letter to Ru Yi, the River-Merchant’s Wife
Michael Gray/Letter to Queen Victoria from the People of Hong Kong, 2012
Shirley Lee/Letter to a Prominent Korean Man And to You
Sumana Roy/Love: Made in China
Theophi Kwek/Love Poem
Andrea Lingenfelter/Master of Nets
Alvin Pang/Magnetic
Tegan Smyth/Mother Tongue
Gilbert Koh/Not Home
Blair Reeve/Of Horologists & Jazzologists
Adam Radford/Old Shikumen Gate
Andrew Barker/On Encountering Jean-Claude Van Damme
Bob Bradshaw/On Giving Birth to Your Daughter
Ocean Vuong/Paramour
Kate Rogers/On The Flight To Manila
Jim Pascual Agustin/Photographs Under Plastic Sheets
Anna Yin/Raspberries
Sithuraj Ponraj/Ravana
Nicholas Wong/Panda, Macao, Gondolas
Jee Leong Koh/Razminovenie, or Nonmeeting
Akin Jeje/Reach
Antony Huen/Remembering Hong Kong as 39 Everyday Objects
Greg Santos/Siem Reap, Cambodia
Lian-Hee Wee/Revolution Without Text
Bill Lantry/Silk Road
David McKirdy/Shining
Martin Alexander/Smashing up the Grand Piano
Viki Holmes/smoking double happiness at the grand stage dinner & dance
Phoebe Tsang/Song for a Commuting Gravedigger
José Manuel Sevilla/Sonia Wants to Rent an Apartment
Gillian Sze/Sonnet II
Phill Provance/St. Petersburg Has Many Churches
Michael O'Sullivan/Stranger
Mantz Yorke/Sunset, Kowloon
Mang Ke (Translated by Lucas Klein)/Street
B.B.P. Hosmillo/Subjections
Anuradha Vijayakrishnan/Suicide Note
David W. Landrum/Tan Yunxian 1461-1554
Grace Chin/The Clothesline
Kate Rogers/The Borrowed Children
Alistair Noon/The Expat’s Partner: An Email
Miho Kinnas/Sudoku
Henrik Heog/The Flame and The Fist (Inez Beverly Prosser)
Paul Christiansen/The Ice-Makers of Trần Hưng Đạo Street
James Shea/The Phrase You Gave Me
Ricky Garni/The Tarsier
Ng Yi-Sheng/The Queen of the Night
Bryan Thao Worra/Zelkova Tree
Gregory J. Dunne/Treasure
Kit Fan/To the Shadow-Millions
Cathy Candano/Exercise: Unlearning “Heart”
Robert Masterson/To the State Electrical Worker
May Dy/We
Eddie Tay/Whose Woods These Are
Jason S Polley/Welcome to the Xiang Gang Museum
Cyril Wong {Cy Rai}/What We Are Given
Dena Rash Guzman/When I Was the Chinaman’s Granddaughter-In-Law
Catherine Edmunds/Where the Red Stone Crumbles
Mai Mang (Yibing Huang)/You Are Island
Arian Tejano/When A Ladyboy Loves A Foreign Man
Luisa A. Igloria/Who Was Your First Love?
Jennifer Feeley/Why Not Say