• Revisiting "For Godot"

    In Fall 2008, Stephen McLaughlin and Jim Carpenter edited an anthology (3785 pages) featuring 3164 poets. McLaughlin and Carpenter did not ask any of the writers for permission to print their works. In fact, the poems attributed to the individual…

  • Rumjhum Biswas in Every Day Poets

    – Rumjhum Biswas’s poem “List of Dos and Don’ts for the School Reunion” is now featured at Every Day Poets. Read it here. – – Rumjhum Biswas’s poem “Bones” was published in issue #12 of Cha. The piece has been nominated for…

  • Love & Other Drugs

    Love & Other Drugs – Last night we went to watch Love & Other Drugs in Covent Garden. Thank you, E, for the generosity! On the film: Anne, you are no Kate Winslet or Penelope Cruz (with reference to her own…

  • Victoria

    The historian sent me this picture and I love it, for obvious reasons.

  • Ocean Vuong’s live reading and interview

    = Ocean Vuong will be doing a live reading and interview via The Blood-Jet Writing Hour this Wednesday at 1PM Eastern time. The live broadcast is available for free here and you can listen to the archived segment after it…

  • Greg Santos’s The Emperor’s Sofa (DC Books, 2010)

    The official DC Books webpage for Greg Santos’s The Emperor’s Sofa is now up, with online ordering possibilities. Check out the page here. – – Greg Santos’s poetry was published in issue #10 of Cha. – –

  • Where does ‘cliché’ come from?

    “How They Met Themselves” (1860-64) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Umberto Eco once wrote, ‘Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés move us, because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion.’ But where…

  • Emerson on Stonehenge

    Stonehenge, pictured by a member of the family in August, 2010. Stonehenge, in virtue of the simplicity of its plan, and its good preservation, is as if new and recent; and, a thousand years hence, men will thank this age…

  • "That’s why I stopped"

    – This morning, the receptionist walked past this park near Festival Walk, pondering: ‘Is this Hong Kong?’ I responded: ‘好日本.’– ––

  • Bob Bradshaw in TRIAGE

    – Bob Bradshaw’s new poem “Twin Sisters, Separated at 2” is now published in the début issue of TRIAGE: A Journal of Excellent Poetry. Read the poem here. ––Read Bob Bradshaw’s Cha profile.––