Ralph-Michael Chiaia's Publishing History (As of July 2009)

*updated 24 July 2009

New Poems are in Green

June 2009
Name Changes & Man Drawing a Butterfly

Clockwise Cat

Dear Poetry

The Poetry Warrior

(there's a funny photo of me from my Korean Driver's Licence)

Is there LSD in my beer?

For Monks Only Blog

December 2008
One Poem (for Daniel Tammet)
For Monks Only

November 2008

Cat, Poem, and Notes (Gato, Poema, y Notas)

Jesus on the Subway (Jesus en el Metro)

read by Andy Riverbed, poet

youtube.com

October 2008

Four Katas

Ink, Sweat & Tears

*these are question- and answer-based haikus without a set number of syllables. Each line is one breath. See the note on the site

Up the Park

Yellow Mama

September 2008

Bats (a short movie shot in Gunung Mulu, Borneo, Malaysia)

revver.com

August 2008

Good Etiquette

Poetic Diversity

*check out the bio they made for me, one of the best i've been a part of!

Two Poems: "Waiting to Shower" and "Closing Time"
Clockwise Cat

July 2008
What is Kiblat?
Yellow Mama
(a fiction, a fact)

June 2008
Instructions on Calming Allergies--
Yellow Mama
(never mind the formatting troubles, the piece is funny!)

What is poetry, anyway?
Mad Swirl Poetry Forum
(1st alter-ego revealed)

May 2008
Singapore side-street
Ink, Sweat & Tears

April 2008
3 Poems about Jin-a
BlazeVox

We should all be cynics
Ink, Sweat, and Tears

February 2008
The Chartreuse Album
chiaia.blogspot.com
*originally in The East Hampton Star

Cat, Poem, and Notes
litchaos.com

January 2008
All Day
Cerebral Catalyst

December 2007
Allegra-D
Clockwise Cat

November 2007
Phnom Penh
Zygote in My Coffee (4th Print Edition)
*available online at the Zygote Bookstore

October 2007
Ten Poems About East Asia
Cerebral Catalyst

September 2007
The Sweetest Thing
Cerebral Catalyst

The Chartreuse Album
The East Hampton Star
*not available online, see Feb 2008 to see it published online

May 2007
Beautiful Almost
The East Hampton Star Print Edition
*not available online

The Weed God
The East Hampton Star Print Edition
*not available online

She's Got the Jimjams
The Sidewalk's End

She Smacks Him
Typepad

September 2006
First ¶
DecomP Magazine

April 2006
Tear this Poem Apart
26.19.69 Variation #6 of 11 Variations
DadaYow!

January 2006
The Mosquito's Improbable Schemes & Dreams
Ode to Cunts
Zygote in My Coffee

December 2005
Ode to the & sign (Ampersand)
Ode for the Fucking Sake of It!
Zygote in My Coffee

Ode to My Glasses
Katauta Invertida
DadaYow!

November 2005
Prologue: Glyphic
Anatomy of a Phone
Zygote in My Coffee

Onion Ring Funeral
Thieves Jargon

June 2005
Art History
No Beauty Sleep
Disintegration - Young Virgin Auto-sodomized by her own Chastity
Misanthropists Anonymous

May 2005
Pillow Talk with My Girl
Word Riot
Part of the novella-in-verse Glyphic. This sections deals with the two revolutionaries, Cris & Paco, and how they met each other. It is all a story to the girl to whom he speaks. Or is it?

March 2005
TV
Typepad

2004
Not a lot going on for Ra writing-wise. At least not that he can remember.

August 2003
Searching Instructions
Word Riot
A man's obsessive search for one strand of hair.

Book Reviews:

By Lo Galluccio

By Joe De La Rosa

By Clarence Wolfshohl

By Charles Christian