• Nicholas Y.B. Wong joins THIS – a literary webzine

    – Nicholas Y.B. Wong has joined the editorial team of this – a literary webzine in the role of Poetry Editor. Visit the publication here. Ten poems by Nicholas (“The God Box”, “Kiss a Door“, “Skydive“, “What Would You Do…

  • Which is more preferable: Innocence or Experience?

    ––In a discussion of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, Harold Bloom (2004) answers: Since Innocence and Experience are states of the soul through which we pass, neither is a finality, both are necessary, and neither is wholly preferable…

  • On this cold day, shake my hand?

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  • Phill Provance in Danse Macabre

    – Phill Provance’s poem “St. Petersburg Has Many Churches” is now featured in Danse Macabre.  – – Phill Provance’s poems were published in issue #12 of Cha. His poem “St. Petersberg Has Many Churches” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2010 and discussed here.…

  • Phill Provance joins Danse Macabre as Associate Editor

    – Phill Provance has now joined the Danse Macabre editorial team in the role of Associate Editor. Check out the publication here.  – – Phill Provance’s poems were published in issue #12 of Cha. His poem “St. Petersberg Has Many Churches” was…

  • The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

    Peter Ackroyd’s The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983) is a fictional memoir of Wilde, written (supposedly) between 9 August 1900 and his death on 30 November that year. In the book, Wilde writes in a letter to a friend, ‘the…

  • Rumjhum Biswas in MicroHorror

    – Rumjhum Biswas’s short story “Lovers” is now published in MicroHorror. Read it here. – – Rumjhum Biswas’s poem “Bones” was published in issue #12 of Cha. The piece has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. – –

  • Stephen Hawking mentions the Chinese tale of the ten suns

    In The Grand Design: New Answers to the Ultimate Questions of Life (2010), co-written by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow: The Chinese tell of a time during the Hsia dynasty (c. 2205-c.1782 BC) when our cosmic environment suddenly changed. Ten suns appeared in…

  • The Pipettes "Santa’s On His Way"

    Download The Pipettes’s “Santa’s On His Way”! Absolutely free. ––

  • "Suppose someone submitted all your poems for you?"

    I came across this interview with Kathleen Fitzpatrick on Nic Sebastian’s blog Very Like A Whale and was intrigued. In July, Kathleen submitted some poems to us on behalf of her husband, W.F. Lantry. Royston, J and I selected “Rainbow Bridge”…