• Kit Kelen’s Poetry, Consciousness, Community reviewed

    In  Oxford Journals’  The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Nerys Williams reviews Kit Kelen’s Rodopi book Poetry, Consciousness, Community. Williams writes: Kelen skillfully sutures together essays on poetry and writing, ranging from Freud’s hypotheses on day dreaming and Julia Kristeva’s Revolution in…

  • The Great Wave, 180 years on

    By Sam Nallen Copley The Great Wave off Kanagawa  Around 180 years ago, Tokitarō (the birth name of Katsushika Hokusai), an elderly man from Eastern Japan embarked on a new project. His second wife had just passed away, his first having…

  • Kate Rogers’s City of Stairs

    The March 2012 Hong Kong Poetry OutLoud event will be devoted to a book launch: the debut of Canadian poet Kate Rogers’s second collection, City of Stairs, courtesy of Haven Books and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. For this…

  • New issue of Sweet

    – The 4.2 issue of Sweet: A literary Confection (founding editor: Ira Sukrungruang)  is now available. Read the new issue here. – Ira Sukrungruang’s poetry has been published in issue #9 of Cha. –

  • Anna Yin’s Wings Toward Sunlight reviewed

    – Anna Yin’s Wings Toward Sunlight is reviewed in the Fall 2011 issue of Loch Raven Review. Read the review here. – Anna Yin’s poem “Raspberries“, published in the November 2009 issue of Cha, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Read “A cup of…

  • Tony Barnstone in Poetry Flash

    –An interview with Tony Barnstone by Wilda Morris is now available at Poetry Flash. Read it here.–Tony Barnstone’s translation was published in Issue #14 of Cha. –

  • Ocean Vuong and the One Pause Poetry Project.

    Ocean Vuong has three poems recorded for the One Pause Poetry Project. He read an original poem, a poem for children, and one from another poet (Ocean chose Linh Dinh’s “Borderless Body”). You can listen to the recordings here.  –…

  • Ricky Garni in Everyday Genius

    – Ricky Garni’s poem “I Am There” is published in Everyday Genius. His other poems in Everyday Genuis are “Paris in the Springtime”, “Discovery” and a selection from TELE-FRICASSEE.  – Ricky Garni’s poetry will appear in Issue #16 of Cha.…

  • Marc Vincenz in October Babies

    – Marc Vincenz’s poem “Self-Portrait of a Lion as His Own Mistress” is now up at October Babies. The poem was previously published in Poets and Artists. – Read Marc Vincenz’s Cha profile. –

  • Ching-In Chen in Glitter Tongue

    – Ching-In Chen’s poem “The Absent Thing” is now up at Glitter Tongue. Read it here. – Ching-In Chen’s poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.  –