• Gillian Sze’s Transformative Experiences

    – In the Spring 2011 issue of SideStreet Review, there is a gorgeous profile article on Gillian Sze, “Transformative Experiences”. You can read a preview of the piece and  purchase the issue in stores or from their website. “It is hardly…

  • Nicholas Y.B. Wong in Stirring

    – Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s poem “Testing the Law” is now published in the March 2011 issue of Stirring. Read it here. – See Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha profile. –

  • Ocean Vuong in diode

    – Ocean Vuong‘s poems “To Love Well”, “Departure”, “My Mother Remembers Her Mother” and “In Defense of Poverty” are now published in the Winter 2011 issue of diode. Read the poems here. – Ocean Vuong’s poem “Paramour” was published in issue#10 of Cha; the…

  • Mary-Jane Newton in Eyewear

    – Mary-Jane Newton’s poems “Poem No 165” and “Xue-Li” are now featured on Eyewear. Read them here. – Mary-Jane Newton’s poetry and reviews were published in Issue 13 of Cha. –

  • Mary-Jane Newton’s Of Symbols Misused

    – Cha contributor Mary-Jane Newton‘s first poetry collection Of Symbols Misused will be launched at the Proverse Hong Kong event on 9 March. Would you like to join? There are still a few tickets left for the independent Proverse event…

  • Cha Facebook Page

    cover artist: annysa ng Dear All My apologies for bombarding you with messages of late. If you happen to be on Facebook, please consider supporting our Facebook page. We used to have a fairly successful “Group” but unfortunately Facebook has…

  • Winning Winchester

    –The publication of my very short poem “The Final Straw” in the March 2011 issue of elimae reminded me of this day-trip to Winchester. Read on and you will see why. ::::: In March last year, we took a day…

  • CHA Issue#13 Goes Live

    Click HERE to read the February 2011 issue of Cha. The February 2011 issue of Cha has now been launched. We would like to thank Arthur Leung (poetry) and Reid Mitchell (prose) for returning to the post of guest editors…

  • ASIAN CHA Issue#13 Editorial

    originally posted here When You Live with a Poet When you live with a poet, you know exactly which three-year-old work she means when she asks, “Did you like the enjambment in the second stanza?” When you live with a…

  • Reverse déjà vu (alert: contains strong language)

    The poem alluded to in this post is now published in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. There are two squirrels in a recent poem I wrote roaming in the garden outside the kitchen. I put them in the work not because…