Central Library at the National Library Building - Programme Room 1 (Basement 1)
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Free Admission
About the Programme
Start your Valentine's Day with a live reading of personal love stories! From heart-tugging verses to tangled tales, four poets and writers will read from and discuss their creative interpretations of modern love.
No prescriptions, no how-to guides. Just an intimate look at how these artists’ capture the messy, subjective, and complicated sentimentalities of being in love. Come ready to listen, laugh and linger on what love might mean in our time.
About the Speakers
Carissa Foo teaches literature and writes fiction. She received her Doctorate from Durham University, with a focus on 20th-century women’s writing. Her writing and research interests include love studies and modes of feminine relationality. She is the author of the short-story collection, No Wonder, Women (Penguin RH SEA); her latest novel is Almost A Love Story, published by Epigram Books in 2025.
Marylyn Tan is a linguistics graduate and queer writer-artist. Her first volume of poetry, GAZE BACK, was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Awards in 2019 and made Marylyn the first woman to win the Singapore Literature Prize for poetry in 2020, the nation’s longest-running literary award. Her work addresses the body, queerness, and the conditions of alienation and marginalisation, through trading in the conventionally obscene and radically pleasurable.
Noonherd is a brown writer, and studies at the National University of Singapore. Her works have been featured in Kopi Break Poetry, Mahogany Journal, sploosh!, and elsewhere. She was the youngest finalist for the Manuscript Bootcamp 2025 (Poetry). She dabbles in other art forms such as zine-making and photography. She is excited for you to read her works and contact her at noonherd.wordpress.com, and at instagram.com/noonherd.
Max Pasakorn (he/she/they) is the author of creative nonfiction chapbook A Study in Our Selves (Neon Hemlock Press, 2023), co-editor of home-brewed poetry magazine Kopi Break and co-editor for Perks of Being Dumped (Marshall Cavendish, 2024), an anthology of Singaporean heartbreak writing. Max’s writing has won the 2024 swamp pink prize and the 2022 Chestnut Review Stubborn Writers’ Contest. Max is currently working on a memoir that laces Singaporean food culture with their queer coming-of-age across Thailand and Singapore. Follow Max on Instagram at @maxpsk_writes.