• What is the closest thing one can do to imitate a bird wing?

    Kyoko Mori answers in One Bird (1995): I raise my left arm and begin to wave as the birds disappear over the neighbor’s houses, and my eyes ache from staring into the sky. I know they will be back among the…

  • “Reading 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦” by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho

    . The title of Allan Hollinghurst’s Booker Prize-winning The Line of Beauty (2004) is a reference to William Hogarth’s The Analysis of Beauty (1801): . the wavering line, which is a line more productive of beauty […], as in flowers, and other…

    “Reading 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦” by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho

  • Ouyang Yu wins NSW Premier’s Literary Award

    Congratulations to Cha contributor Ouyang Yu, whose book The English Class is a 2011 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award winner ($20,000). Ouyang’s poem “Bad English” was published in Issue # 4 of Cha and discussed on A Cup of Fine Tea.…

  • Squirrels | Nicholas Y.B. Wong in Anomalous Press

    – Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s poem “From My Window” is now published in Anomalous Press. There is also a recording of it. The second and third lines of the poem particularly caught my attention: ‘no squirrels fleeing from freezing / corners with their…

  • W.F. Lantry in Istanbul Literary Review

    –W.F. Lantry’s short story “Saaki” is now published in the fifth issue of Spilling Ink. Read it here.–W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha.––

  • Marc Vincenz in The Nervous Breakdown

    –– Read Marc Vincenz’s “Murdering the Chicken to Frighten the Monkeys: Part One” is in The Nervous Breakdown. If you know Hong Kong, you’ll find familiar things in the piece. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –

  • Marc Vincenz in October Babies

    – Marc Vincenz’s poem “Rust”, previously published by Danse Macabre, is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –

  • Ways of walking through a wood

    – Re-reading Eddie’s poem “Whose Woods These Are”, I am reminded of what Umberto Eco says in Six Walks in the Fictional Woods:1 There are two ways of walking through a wood. The first is to try one or several…

  • The World’s Wife

    The partner bought me Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife in 2009. The collection features works ostensibly narrated by the wives of well-known historical and fictional men, famous men reimagined as women, or women who were well-known in their own right. Some…

  • W.F. Lantry in String Poet

    – Three poems by W.F. Lantry are now featured on String Poet: “Sight”, “Vision” and “Weather”. You can also watch a video of Bill reading the poem “Visionary” here. – W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha. – =