Esther Vincent

Reading of "Excuse me, what is your race?"

Book launch and readings by contributing poets

Editors sharing about the creative process

Edgefield Secondary school

Photo with editors and contributing poets

Editor-mentor sharing about the writing process

"Writing is a way of perceiving. We write to perceive and we write to understand ourselves and the world."

Co-editor facilitating a comparative reading of poems

Breakout session: Language and identity

Reading of three poems in progress: "Lost tongue", "Inheritance" and "Dream fruit"

Panellist sharing some early inspirations & more recent texts that have been influential

in inspiring the poetry I write & the environmental work that I do with The Tiger Moth Review

Sharing with researchers, ecologists and scientists the inspiration behind the work I do at The Tiger Moth Review, as well as the poetry I write in response to nature, the environment and ecology

Meeting in the Middle 2020, organised by Ethos Books Singapore

Featuring Esther Vincent Xueming (The Tiger Moth Review), Melissa Low (NUS Energy Studies Institute) and Komal Lad (SG Climate Rally), the hour-long dialogue delved into the intersections of literature and the climate crisis, how to manage eco-anxiety, how feminism relates to the climate crisis, etc.

Eco Poetry Reading #1 @ Thrive Hour Community Corner (Facebook live) from The Tiger Moth Review to raise funds for needy families at Beyond Social Services

Reading list:

1. “Eagle Poem” by Joy Harjo (Poetry Moves, p. 120)
2. “Tree” by Lee Soo Jin (The Tiger Moth Review, Issue 3, p. 19), Korea-Singapore
3. “I Tell The River That I Shall Pray Again” by Vinita Agrawal (The Tiger Moth Review, Issue 2, p. 45), India
4. “The Climb” by Ray DiZazzo (The Tiger Moth Review, Issue 2, p. 31), USA
5. “The Four Seasons” by Thomas Bacon (The Tiger Moth Review, Issue 4, p. 54-5), Alaska, USA

Eco Poetry Reading #2 @ Thrive Hour Community Corner (Facebook live) from The Tiger Moth Review to raise funds for needy families at Beyond Social Services

Reading list:

1. “Humpbacks” by Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems: Volume One, p. 168-170
2. “Enturtled” by Peggy Landsman (The Tiger Moth Review, Issue 2, p. 50), USA
3. “Elegy for a Silent Stalker” by Ow Yeong Wai Kit (The Tiger Moth Review, Issue 2, p. 17), Singapore
4. “Lament for the Thylacine” by Amanda McLeod (The Tiger Moth Review, Issue 3, p. 16), Australia 
5. “Into the Blue” by Dorsia Smith Silva (The Tiger Moth Review, Issue 2, p. 60), Puerto Rico

Eco Poetry Reading #3 @ Thrive Hour Community Corner (Facebook live) from The Tiger Moth Review to raise funds for needy families at Beyond Social Services

Reading list:

1. “Greece When Nobody’s Looking” by Linda Gregg, Sacraments of Desire, p. 11
2. "Le Morne beach” by Esther Vincent Xueming, unpublished, Singapore 
3. “Good Fossil Fuels” by Craig Santos Perez (The Tiger Moth Review, Issue 3, p. 39), Pacific Island of Guam
4. “Beatitude” by Kunle Okesipe, (The Tiger Moth Review, Issue 3, p. 9), Nigeria
5. “My Response:” by Lee Maracle (The Tiger Moth Review, Issue 2, p. 7), Sto: lo (Coast Salish Nation), Canada

"This edition of NEW WORKS invites you to explore artmaking and the role it plays in our larger cultural and ecological landscape. NEW CLIMATES / NEW WORKS features a multidisciplinary panel of artists — singer Inch Chua, writer and editor Esther Vincent (Tiger Moth Review), editor Matthew Schneider-Mayerson (Eating Chili Crab in the Anthropocene: Environmental Perspectives on Life in Singapore) and illustrator Tiffany Lovage. Pick their thoughts as they discuss their craft in the face of environmental calls-to-action and their views of the world through an ecocultural lens."

(http://www.singlitstation.com/calendar/2020/6/20/new-climates-new-works)

Co-editor conducting an online teaching poetry workshop for literature teachers

Sharing about artists and the role of art in Singapore today, following the release of a controversial survey in Straits Times on 14 June 2020 where artists were deemed non-essential by respondents

(https://readnus.com/kopi-talks/?fbclid=IwAR0b3XeXa9GRXIUYMKp3wEue_k9Z6Z5yumemPSH0khQweWetrAzsK2CV9wA)