• 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.––

  • Winnie Chau in The Delinquent

    – Three poems by Winnie Chau are now published in Issue #13 of The Delinquent. The poems are “the finger-biting girl” (pp.14-15), “two negatives make a negative” (p. 15) and “sorry, i googled you” (pp. 16-19). You can purchase a…

  • When the Rain Stops Falling at Almeida

    This post was originally written on 5th July, 2009. – Yesterday we spent an evening in Islington. It was a beautiful day and we sat by Regent’s Canal and had a drink from the Narrow Boat Pub (Beer in a…

  • A haunting story

    A woman is sitting at home alone, one Saturday morning just before midday, when, unexpectedly, a knock comes at the door. On opening the door she finds, much to her surprise, an old friend whom she has not seen for…

  • ASM 2010 BOOKLAUNCH AT Creative Macau – Macao Cultural Centre — Saturday 18th December 4.30 pm

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