• Cha contributors in Asymptote

    The July issue of  Asymptote is now live. This is the publication’s biggest and boldest issue to date. It features a new Upaniṣad translation, master of the lyric novel Shen Congwen, “Ghalib Redux”, poems by Tomaž Šalamun, the philosophy of…

  • Nicholas Y. B. Wong in qarrtsiluni

    – Nicholas Y. B. Wong’s poem “They Say the Spring Breeze Has Come” is now published in qarrtsiluni. Read it here. – See Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha profile. – –

  • Gillian Sze in Room

    –Gillian Sze’s new poems “Gypsy Moth” and “To the Photographer in the Countryside” are now published in Room. Learn more here.–Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile.––

  • Gillian Sze in Encore Literary Magazine

    – Gillian Sze’s new poem “The Day After I Lost My Mittens” is now published in Encore Literary Magazine. Read it here. – Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile. – –

  • Two ways to consider clouds

    Edinburgh, May 2011 ––ARIEL.All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I comeTo answer thy best pleasure; be’t to fly,To swim, to dive into the fire, to rideOn the curl’d clouds; to thy strong bidding taskAriel and all his quality. …..…

  • Does one need to be dissatisfied to be a writer?

    Quote of the day – Pamuk on ‘dissatisfaction’ I was reading the “The New Lyric Studies” section of the January 2008 edition of PMLA but found the interview with Orhan Pamuk interesting as well. In it, Pamuk talks about his…

  • Cucumber sandwiches

    ‘Honour of the cucumber’ ‘Cucumber sandwiches’ — often a simplistic avatar of the English upper class in literature. I have never had one, have you? ‎’[P]oems are worth all the cucumber-sandwiches in the world […] the perfect green circles —…

  • Nicolette Wong in Apocrypha and Abstractions

    –Nicolette Wong’s flash fiction “The Warrior” is now up at Apocrypha and Abstractions. Read it here.–Nicolette Wong’s short stories were published in Issue #1 and Issue #6 of Cha.–=

  • Lyn Lifshin in Verse Wisconsin

    – Lyn Lifshin’s poem “My Mother and the Lilacs” is now published in the latest issue of Verse Wisconsin. Read it here. – Lyn Lifshin’s poems were published in issue 4 and issue 10 of Cha = =

  • W.F. Lantry in Connotation Press

    – W.F. Lantry’s short stories “Mermaid”, “Visitation” and “Transference” are now published in the latest issue of Connotation Press. You can also read an interview with Bill by Meg Tuite.  – W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha.  –…