Tan Kheng Yeang, who was born in former British Malaya and attended an English school there, is a poet of exuberance and diversity. His latest volume, following a free verse book, Diverse Modes, gathers three collections that draw from... Read More

This collection takes the building blocks of life—literally, a number of the chemical elements featured in the poems—and tries to make sense of them. For the most part, Tan Kheng Yeang paints a very dark picture of humanity; many... Read More

"Sauce of Life" is a family saga set in 1930s British Malaya, where Lai Pek, a middle-aged Chinese businessman, leads a prosperous life with his wife and five children. Pleased with his hard-earned accomplishments and certain of his... Read More

“We need a universal language … A universal language cannot be made by spreading one of the current languages … It can properly be established with only a new language, unconnected with any particular nation.” Tan Kheng Yeang has... Read More

Daniel Eckstein knows relationships. As a licensed psychologist and counselor, he has worked with couples for more than thirty years, and he has published popular books and academic articles on relationship issues for nearly as long. In... Read More

For most of his life, Graeme Boshoff experienced the same series of dreams five or six times a week. He details these in "The 13th Chapter". In the first dream, and the most frequent of the series, Boshoff is told that he needs to save... Read More

When ten-year-old Warren “Thump” Hearst returns from the hospital with his leg irreparably damaged from polio, he resigns himself to a hermetic life in his bedroom without friends or baseball. Because of his mother’s... Read More

What is politically correct or incorrect depends upon the audience and society as a whole. Ciera S. Louise’s poetry collection, "Poetically Correct", is full of bold poems that critique the skeletons in humanity’s closet. Spanning... Read More