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Preorders for Sine Theta Magazine Issue #5 (FLOW 流) are officially open!  

sinθ is an international, print-based creative arts magazine made by and for the Sino diaspora. Our third issue, with theme "FLOW 流”, will be released on August 22nd.

This issue focuses on themes of connection, language, and family; generational wisdom and distance; exploration and remembrance. This 50-paged magazine features poetry, prose, photography, and installation and multimedia art from Sino artists worldwide. Sine Theta Magazine also had the opportunity to interview Chinese-American poet Chen Chen on his relations to language, memory, and Chineseness and his experiences writing in diaspora.

You can preorder this issue for $20 USD (free shipping worldwide). The print run will be extremely limited, so grab yours now while we’re still in stock!

Five favorite poems from my book + two newer (previously published) poems, up now at From the Fishouse: an audio archive of emerging poets. I also give some (not super concrete but I hope still helpful!) advice to fellow writers and read/talk about a brilliant (!!) poem by Kazumi Chin. Thanks to Matt O'Donnell for putting this all together.

And here’s the book’s page on Barnes & Noble’s website! 

1. The last thing that made you smile.

Wearing my blue beanie cap while walking into the late November evening cool—with my boyfriend and our pug dog, Mr. Rupert Giles (yes, named after the Buffy the Vampire Slayer character). We live in Lubbock, Texas, which is not a particularly LGBTQ-friendly city, to put it gently. It’s a political act, every time my boyfriend and I hold hands in public. It’s an act of love and resistance and wonder...

I got interviewed. And couldn’t help but mention Mr. Giles, the pug of my life.