• originally posted here. Listening Outloud My favourite place in Hong Kong is forever tied to a book, or rather a scene from an audio book. The spot is a small glade a few kilometres south of Tai O’s salt marshes…

  • Originally posted on November 26, 2009. He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart. — Proverbs 11:29 A play at the Old Vic — is there a…

  • The first prose poems and linoleum block prints in Inara cedrins’s Chicago Facades series, which the Kenyion Review describes as ‘literary nonfiction’, are now available in The Kenyon Review here.  – – Inara Cedrins’s poetry was published in Issue #6…

  • On Dec. 3, Haliterature, Shanghai’s independent English language publishing house, will release its second anthology, Middle Kingdom Underground – 13 Stories From the People’s Republic of. Cha contributor Dena Rash Guzman has two stories in this book, one co-written by Hal’s founder…

  • – Marc Vincenz’s “Unfathomable Mammals” (previously published in PIF Magazine) is now up at October Babies. You can also listen to Marc’s recording of the poem here. – Read Marc Vincenz’s Cha profile. ––

  • Kristine Ong Muslim’s “Living with Ezra” is now published on Mad Hatters’ Review Blog. Read the poem here. – –Kristine Ong Muslim’s poetry was published in issue #9 of Cha and her poem “Preface to a Pornographer’s Dirty Book” is discussed here. ––

  • – Read Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s “Journey” and “Paranormal Panorama” and Ivy Alvarez’s “The secret sister” and “The Museum of Inexplicable History” in the new issue of Mascara Literary Review. Also in the issue is Paul Sharrad’s review of Michelle Cahill’s Vishvarūpa…

  • – Ocean Vuong’s new poem “Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome” is now published in the November 2011 issue of The Collagist. Read it here. –– Ocean Vuong’s poem “Paramour” was published in issue#10 of Cha; the poem has been nominated for inclusion in Best…

  • –– Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s translation Bai Hua‘s and Lan Lan‘s poetry is now available in the new issue of Cerise Press.  –Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s poetry was published in Issue 12 of Cha and her book Water The Moon is reviewed in the same issue.––

  • Congratulations to Cha contributors Marc Vincenz and Robert Masterson. Their poems, “While Facing the Urinal” and “The Distance Between These Things” respectively, are nominated by Fleeting Magazine for the Pushcart Prize 2012.  – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of…