An old book & The Sound of Tro – Poems by Yeng Chheangly
An Old Book Books on the shelf are in categories, Well kept and arranged in order, While one lies elsewhere, Is covered in thick dust. Kept but never cared for, Tossed into a corner, An outcast from the new shelved books, Fearful it may destroy the shelf’s proper...
This Body Mystery – By Chath pierSath
This Body Mystery – Painting and poem by Chath pierSath Briefcase Owner Combination lock regrets and memories Buried over the years. Stored in pockets pictures of his wife and children – A resume of a border camp a diary to forget. He jotted down...
Kho Tararith: Breathing Life into Cambodian Literature
By Chath pierSath As a Khmer writer and poet living in the U.S., I straddle two worlds. I write while torn by confusion about where home is, the risk of stagnation, and the danger of being a body in stasis, writing with a mind in constant grief and a heart...
Words Sprouting Lives – Poetry from Writing Through
Poetry builds fresh connections between the old and the new, and between the familiar and the unconventional. It is a sublime voice of the personality of the human being who makes the poem, and of those who read it with appreciation. Like all art, it is a form of experience. Seldom are these experiences generated in schools or homes across the world’s landscapes. In Cambodia, these experiences rarely exist.
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