• Quiet

    –My friend took this picture. Be quiet — music is banned. Kowloon Tong, 9:10am At this point, the receptionist is late for work already.––

  • Why is Greek tragedy not concerned with evil men?

    –A.D. Nuttall in Overheard by God: Fiction and Prayer in Herbert, Milton, Dante and St John (1980) answers: Greek tragedy owes its special force to the stratified coexistence of two ethical worlds. The older stratum is one in which men…

  • Moving

    Yesterday, my friend sent me this picture, taken from a moving bus. – –

  • 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. – –