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“One thing we should be aware of: in this age of globalisation, there’s this idea that English is becoming more and more expansive. In fact, much the opposite is happening: in the 19th century, English was much wider, more accepting…
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Several Cha contributors have new works published in the latest issue (October 2010) of Mascara Literary Review. Read Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s three poems “Rendez-vous at Pont des Arts”, “Fragile” and “My Grandmother Waters the Moon”; Cyril Wong’s three poems “School Bus”,…
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Read Bob Bradshaw’s “Nights in the Forbidden City”, Lee Yew Leong’s “mr cognito’s induction into the mile high club” and “Honey, I’m Off To Be A Jellyfish Now”. in the latest issue (October 2010) of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. – –…
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Written by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, this post was originally published on 5 April 2010. . In his Acknowledgements, Neil Gaiman cites Kipling’s The Jungle Book as an influence of his The Graveyard Book (note the similarity between Kipling’s and Gaiman’s…
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We are very pleased to announce Cha‘s nominations for the Pushcart Prize 2011. The sixth nominee was selected based on readers’ voting through email and on this blog. 1) Eddie Tay, “Night Thoughts” Read an analysis of this poem. (Issue…
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Written by Cha’s webmaster JJ, this post was originally posted on 16th September, 2009. Readers of this blog might already be familiar with Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, co-edited by Tammy and Jeff. I’m the webmaster of Cha, and Tammy…
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Louie Crew’s poems “Indelicate”, “Two Haiku”, “The Maledictions” and “Fine, Upstanding Citizens” are now published in Issue #19 of Otolith. – – Three poems by Louie Crew were published in issue #7 of Cha. – –
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Nicholas Ostler has a new book out: The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel (2010). In it, he argues that English, today’s global lingua franca, will die out, following the pattern of former great languages Sanskrit and Latin. He…
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This post was originally written on 11th May, 2010. BBC is currently running a series called “Modern Masters”, presented and narrated by the enthusiastic art journalist Alastair Sooke. The first episode was on Andy Warhol, whose life story, repeated so…
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Congratulations to Ocean Vuong whose poem “Burning House” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Fox Chase Review. This is his third Pushcart nominations (he was nominated two times last year). Born in 1988 in Saigon, Vietnam, Ocean is the…
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