• Ocean Vuong in Vinyl Poetry

    – Ocean Vuong’s poem “Self-Portrait as Jeffrey Dahmer” is now published in Vol. 3 of Vinyl Poetry. Dahmer was ‘a notorious serial killer and cannibal’. – – Ocean Vuong’s poem “Paramour” was published in issue#10 of Cha; the poem has been nominated…

  • Nicholas Y. B. Wong joins Drunken Boat

    – Nicholas Y.B. Wong has joined the Drunken Boat team as a Poetry Reader. See here for more information.  – See Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha profile. ––

  • Kristine Ong Muslim and Nicholas Y. B. Wong in Prime Number

    – Cha contributors Kristine Ong Muslim and Nicholas Y.B. Wong have new works published in the latest edition of Prime Number. Read Kristine’s “Knife Tower” here. Nicholas’s “Self Portrait”, which was inspired by Louise Glück’s work, is also read by…

  • Marc Vincenz in October Babies

    – Marc Vincenz’s poem “She Thinks I Look Like Lenin” is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. ––

  • Vineet Kaul in Nether

    – Vineet Kaul’s “Brainwave v/s Brain Freeze: A Comparative Study” is now published in nether / fortnight 8. Read the work here [pdf]. – Vineet Kaul’s poetry was published in Issue #13 of Cha. ––

  • Vineet Kaul in Subliminal Interiors

    – Vineet Kaul’s poem “Untitled (Coz that’s what she is)” is now published in the April 2011 issue of Subliminal Interiors: Poetry & Photography eMagazine. Read it here. – Vineet Kaul’s poetry was published in Issue #13 of Cha. – –

  • Poetry OutLoud features Mary-Jane Newton | Wednesday 4th May 2011

    [click image to enlarge] Mary-Jane Newton’s new poetry collection Of Symbols Misused will feature, and there will also be an open mic session. Please email PoetryOutloud@gmail.com if you’d like a slot. Gauri Naurain will MC. ::::: Author’s bio: Mary-Jane Newton was…

  • When is love at its most intense?

    A.S. Byatt in The Children’s Book (2009) answers: But Julian was clever and observant enough to see that love was at its most intense before it was reciprocated. ‘Love is a standing, or still growing light / And his first…

  • How does London make one feel?

    A.S. Byatt in The Children’s Book (2009) answers: He felt unreal in London, as though his flesh and blood were in abeyance, as though he was a simulacrum of a boy, floating along Gower Street with its prim houses, dodging…

  • What is money?

    A.S. Byatt in The Children’s Book (2009) answers: Money was freedom. Money was aesthetic. Money was Arab stallions, not rough cobs. Money was not being shouted at. […] Money was freedom. Money was life.  -p. 59 How poor can one…