• "I want to see the ocean."

    Reader, we didn’t go to Canterbury. We went to Brighton instead. There, we saw the ocean. The beach reminded us of some nicer Hong Kong beaches, where we went on occasion. The seagulls flew freely. The lovely chubby kids fell on the pebbles,…

  • "Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light."

    . … from the TV seriesNorthern Exposure: . Goethe’s final words: “More light.” Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that’s been our unifying cry, “More light.” Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from…

  • I’m curious – Are you "Roy"?

    UPDATE: READER, HE HAS BEEN FOUND. THANK YOU, ALL. – We have a new Fine Tea article up, which is an analysis of Jennifer Wong’s poem “Companions”. Someone called “Roy” left us a comment and I am curious. If you…

  • Jennifer Wong reviews The Surreal House

    – Read Jennifer Wong’s review of The Surreal House, now available on the Tate website. The book is edited by Jane Alison (Senior Curator of Barbican Art Gallery) and designed by Angus Hyland. It includes by Jane Alison, Mary Ann Caws,…

  • Writing Machine Collective 4th Edition Exhibition

    –From their website: The Writing Machine Collective 4th edition (Jan 14-30, 2011) promises to be a fresh and thrilling showcase of crème de la crème local media arts talents. 15 artists come together to offer us 12 unique works that…

  • "I want to be an artist who does not look away, who honors the messy real."

    – It’s a delight to read Daniel Bowman Jr.’s personal essay “Dancing in Fields of Wheat and Chaff” about The Glen Workshop, now up at Art House America. The essay ends with this beautiful image: I tried to dance. Awkward and…

  • Lyn Lifshin in amphibi.us

    Three poems by Lyn Lifshin, “Even if you’ve no interest in another”, “Old Boyfriends” and “The Way You Know” are now featured at amphibi.us. Read them here. –– Lyn Lifshin’s poems were published in issue 4 and issue 10 of Cha – –

  • "To the Virtuous Woman I Desperately Want to Screw but Don’t Want to Marry"

    In 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know (2010), John Sutherland uses Andrew Marvell’s poem “To his Coy Mistress” to illustrate the idea of ‘double bind’ (pp. 132-135). Had we but world enough timethis coyness, lady, were no crime. […] But…

  • Asia Literary Review — Let’s have some flora in the poems

    There are some wonderful poems in the Winter 2010 issue of Asia Literary Review (this is their “China’ issue) and it is interesting to see that many of them feature flora imagery.1  Landscape Above Zero | Bei Dao | “It was…

  • Tonight, drunk on poetry

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