• Jennifer Wong in Eyewear

    – Jennifer Wong’s poem “The Last Monologues” is now featured on Eyewear. Read it here.– Jennifer Wong’s poem “Companions” was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She has also reviewed books for the journal.–– –

  • Nicholas Y. B. Wong in The Adroit Journal

    – Three new poems by Nicholas Y.B. Wong, “Residues”, “My Japanese Robot” and “Attachment”, are now published in the Summer 2011 issue of The Adroit Journal. Find out how to download the issue by clicking “Current Issue” on their website.…

  • What is it we want really? For what end and how?

    Louis MacNeice in Autumn Journal (1939) answers: If it is something feasible, obtainable,…..Let us dream it now,And pray for a possible land…..Not of sleepwalkers, not of angry puppets,But where both hand and brain can understand…..The movements of our fellows;Where life is…

  • Jennifer Wong in Fox Chase Review

    – Read Jennifer Wong’s two new poems “Praiado Titan” and “Kwan Yin” in the September 2011 issue of Fox Chase Review. Jennifer Wong’s poem “Companions” was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She has also reviewed books for the journal. ==

  • One of the most famous beds in literature

    “Odysseus and Penelope” (1563) by Francesco Primaticcio From Homer’s Odyssey (Book 23): For built into the well-constructed bedstead is a great symbol which I made myselfwith no one else. A long-leaved olive bush was growing in the yard. It was…

  • Alistair Noon in Fleeting Magazine

    Alistair Noon’s new poem “Email from Coleridge in Beijing“ is now featured in Fleeting Magazine. Read it here. – Alistair Noon’s poetry and creative non-fiction were published in issue #2 of Cha. His poem “The Expat Partner: An Email” is discussed here. – – ––

  • Sushma Joshi’s The End of the World | Get your copy in Hong Kong

    –– The End of the World by Cha contributor and Nepalese writer Sushma Joshi, is now available in Bookazine, HK. The fifty copies will arrive soon, so please go to the bookstore and book your copy before the stocks run out! This edition…

  • Why do Western vampires know kung fu?

    Kim Newman in Anno Dracula (2011 [1991]) answers: The Chinese movie tradition of the hopping vampire (jiang shi or geung si) is one of the odder strains of vampirism. I saw Ricky Lau’s Mr Vampire (1985) in London’s Chinatown before the…

  • What advantages attended shaving by night?

    James Joyce in Ulysses (1922) answers: A softer beard: a softer brush if intentionally allowed to remain from shave to shave in its agglutinated lather: a softer skin if unexpectedly encountering female acquaintances in remote places at incustomary hours: quiet reflections…

  • Marc Vincenz in Metazen

    – Two poems by Marc Vincenz, “Swimming Sheila in Psychopomp” and “The Uh-Huh”, are now published in Metazen. Read them here. –Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha.––