• Robert E. Wood in Rose and Thorn Journal

    Robert E. Wood has three new poems in the Summer 2011 issue of The Rose and Thorn Journal. The poems are “Weary Willie“, “Tuba Player” and “Bouquet of Daffodils for Daffy Duck“. Read them here. – – Robert E. Wood’s…

  • The speech that is guaranteed to get the girl

    From Harold Pinter’s Betrayal (1978): You’re lovely. I’m crazy about you. All these words I’m using, don’t you see, they’ve never been said before. Can’t you see? I’m crazy about you. It’s a whirlwind. Have you ever been to the Sahara Desert? Listen…

  • Marc Vincenz in October Babies

    – Marc Vincenz’s poem “Tai Ch’i Master”, previously published in Right Hand Pointing, is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –

  • "And ain’t I a woman?"

    “That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And…

  • Vaughan Rapatahana in Blackmail Press

    –Read Vaughan Rapatahana’s new work in issue #30 of Blackmail Press.–Vaughan Rapatahana’s poetry has been published in Issue #8 of Cha.––

  • Toddlekins and Trot by Anna M. Pratt

    “Dear Toddlekins,” said little Trot,“May I talk to you a while?”“Why, yeth, of courthe,” said Toddlekins,With a bashful little smile. “Now, Toddlekins,” said little Trot,“If we should meet a bear”——“Good graciouth me!” said Toddlekins,“You give me thuch a thcare!” “If…

  • Vaughan Rapatahana’s Home, Away, Elsewhere

    Home Away Elsewhere Semi-finalist for the inaugural Proverse Prize Vaughan Rapatahana Rapatahana’s poems make significant patterns out of the randomness of life’s events and give succinct and effective voice to the peculiarly modern condition of the global nomad at once…

  • Call for Submissions: Blackmail Press

    – Cha contributor Vaughan Rapatahana will act as guest editor for Issue #31 of Blackmail Press, one of Aotearoa-New Zealand’s leading online poetry journals. For the issue they are asking for submissions of original poems on the theme of marginalization, on being…

  • Call for Submissions: Maori and Indigenous (MAI) Review Journal

    – Maori and Indigenous (MAI) Review Journal (poetry editor: Vaughan Rapatahana), an online magazine dedicated to the development of indigenous peoples, is calling for submissions of up to four original (i.e. previously unpublished) poems. Submissions are accepted all year around and…

  • Donna Miscolta’s When the de la Cruz Family Danced

    – We at Cha are very glad to announce that Donna Miscolta’s début novel When the de la Cruz Family Danced has recently been published by Hong Kong-based Signal 8 Press. On her website, Donna writes: ‘One of my stories, which happened…