• You sometimes have to make a mess before you can get it to go right

    Jocelyn Bell Burnell talks about the logic of Science in this episode of Beautiful Minds. The following is my transcription: Way back in the Middle Ages, they thought that planets went round the sun in circles. Perfect circles. They had…

  • NUS Literary Society Evening of Poetry and Music 26 Feb. 2011

    From their website: The annual NUS Literary Society Evening of Poetry and Music will feature upcoming writers and literary figures, interspersed with live musical performances from NUS music groups. Also included in the EPM will be the prize presentation for…

  • W. F. Lantry in Verse Wisconsin

    – W. F. Lantry’s poem about Wisconsin Protests, “Vision”, can be read here. – W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha. –

  • W. F. Lantry and J. A. Tyler in The Dead Mule

    – W. F. Lantry’s short story “Desire” and J. A. Tyler’s short story “Variations of a Brother War” are now published in the February 2011 issue of The Dead Mule. W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha. J.A. Tyler’s…

  • Jee Leong Koh in Mascara

    Three poems by Jee Leong Koh, “In His Other House”, “The Hospital Life” and “The Bowl”, are now featured on the “New Worlds” section of Mascara Literary Review. Read the poems here.0Jee Leong Koh’s poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.– ––

  • When you say ‘I am just playing (with him/her/you)!’, are you sure you are really ‘playing’?

    “The Swing” (1767) by Jean-Honoré Fragonard  Harold Bloom (1994) sums up Johan Huizinga’s summary of the properties of play: 1) freedom2) disinterestedness3) excludedness or limitedness4) orderJohan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens (1944), p. 13: Summing up the formal characteristics of play we might call it a free activity…

  • Craig Santos Perez’s From Unincorporated Territory {Saina} is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry

    – Congratulations to Craig Santos Perez! His poetry collection From Unincorporated Territory {Saina}, published by Omnidawn, is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry. You can purchase a copy of the book directly here. The Los…

  • Craig Santos Perez in Zoland Poetry

    – Two reviews by Craig Santos Perez are published in Zoland Poetry: – 1) Craig reviews David Buuck’s The Shunt (Palm Press) 2) Craig reviews Jen Hofer’s One (Palm Press) – Craig Santos Perez’s review was been published in issue #9 of Cha. –

  • Marc Vincenz in Poets & Artists

    0 Marc Vincenz’s new poem “Post Nuclear Love Child” is now published in Poets & Artists. You can also listen to his reading of the work.  – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. –

  • Book Talk: Is The Writer Her Character(s)? | 24th February

    –From the HKU Library website: How much is a writer the character(s) of her novels? Authorial distance can often be hard to gauge in books that are supposedly “fiction.” Come and join this provocative conversation between author Xu Xi and…