Media Coverage

MEDIA / SOCIAL MEDIA COVERAGE (POETRY-RELATED)

1. Straits Times (2017): mention of poem Job | Less within article
2. Southeast Asian Poetic Forms blog (2017): mention of The Last Thing, Every Night under the liwuli section and atomos under the anima methodi section
3. SingPoWriMo Facebook group (2018): poem Singaporean | Son went viral and was mentioned in social media:
   • Mothership
   • Reddit
   • Mustsharenews
   • SGAG reposted the poem in 2019 and it went viral again
4. 联合晚报 (2019): Interview in 27 May 2019 article with Chinese poem, 《亚坤》, published within article
5. Poetry Festival Singapore (2019): Winner Interview for First Prize in National Poetry Competition 2019
6. SingPoWriMo Facebook group (2020): poem front | lines, which is a tribute to nurses, went mildly viral; the poem was shared by Singapore General Hospital, SingHealth Medicine ACP Medical Humanities, and ELIS Singapore
7. Poetry Festival Singapore (2020): Catharsis – Our Stories in Verse poetry reading, from 47:30 to 49:38
8. Quarterly Literary Review Singapore (2020): mentioned in a critique of Contour within the article Representation in Two Dimensions by Kendrick Loo
9. Circuit Breaker Zine (2020): Zoom interview with contributors
10. Southeast Asian Poetic Forms blog (2020): mention of DO NOT FILL ME WITH YOUR RNA under the coronasonnet section
11. Hype Magazine (2020): Shoutout from Desmond Kon’s interview in response to SingLit works he recommends
12. Digital Communities at Work: Singapore Poetry Writing Month (2021): Discussion of poems Marriage | Vows and Singaporean | Son in journal article (2021) by Joshua Ip, Ann Ang and Cheryl Julia Lee
13. Poetry Festival Singapore (2021): A Given Grace – The Anthology Reading Series Part 9, from 5:43 to 9:33
14. Carnival of Poetry (2022): A Fresh Page – Reading and Interview
15. Catharsis, Poetry Festival Singapore (2022): hosted the event at LASALLE College of the Arts
16. Night at the Library (2022): panelist and workshop facilitator at the National Library Board event, at the Pod
17. Catharsis, Poetry Festival Singapore (2023): hosted the event at the National Library, Imagination Room
18. Catharsis, Poetry Festival Singapore (2024): hosted the event at The Arts House, Blue Room

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MEDIA COVERAGE (EDUCATION-RELATED)

1. AsiaOne (2013): Article about me being the first JC teacher to receive the Outstanding Youth in Education Award (OYEA)
2. National Archives Singapore (2013): Photograph at the Teachers’ Day Reception with President Tony Tan and Mrs Mary Tan
3. Ministry of Education Singapore (2019): Speech by Ms Indranee Rajah, with mention of how I inspired my ex-student, Mr Lim Chuan Li, to become a teacher who also received OYEA
4. Schoolbag (2019) and The New Paper (2019): Interviews of Mr Lim Chuan Li on schoolbag and The New Paper respectively in which he talked about the time I was his Civics Tutor in Temasek Junior College