• Introducing The Russell C. Leong Literary E-Book Series

    Russell Leong writes: The E-Book Series will continue the UCLA tradition of publishing Asian America’s most distinguished literary writers. Amerasia has published stories, letters, poetry, essays, and interviews by and with: Carlos Bulosan, Frank Chin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jessica Hagedorn,…

  • CHA on Twitter

    Follow Cha on our new twitter. Receive up-to-dateAsian and/or literary newsfrom five key membersof the Cha team. – You can also find us on Facebook. – – – –

  • Weekend in Paris

    The poem “Weekend in Paris (in four parts)” was written in November 2008, shortly after my birthday. These postcards were first published in Postal Poetry in February 2009. (See here, here, here, and here.) –

  • Envious Old Woman

    “Envious Old Woman” is a stanza from “Confessions of a Woman, Seventy Years Old or Less” (published in Softblow). This postcard was published in Postal Poetry on 19 September, 2008. (See here.) –

  • Nabina Das in BAP Quarterly

    Nabina Das’s creative non-fictino “The Water Giver” is published in BAP Quarterly. Read it here. – – Nabina Das’s poetry was published in Issue #10 of Cha. – –

  • Call for Submissions — Invite to join a new blog carnival, theme:

    > Language > Place looking for authors/bloggers who are interested in joining a blog carnival with a focus on language / place: bilingual authors, bloggers who are living outside their mother language country, or who are learning a new language,…

  • Ocean Vuong reads

    Ocean Vuong will be giving a reading on Friday 19 November 2010 at the Moonstone Arts Center. Learn more about the event here. – –– Ocean Vuong’s poetry was published in issue#10 of Cha. – –

  • The Social Network

    We greatly enjoyed The Social Network and recommend that you read Jonathan Mendelsohn’s review of the film in two parts: Part I and Part II. – – Read Jonathan Mendelsohn’s Cha profile. – –

  • Ankur Agarwal in Orion Headless

    Ankur Agarwal’s poem “Sucker Punch” is now published in Orion Headless. Read the poem here. – – Read Ankur Agarwal’s Cha profile. – –

  • Cha: An Asian Literary Journal – Call for Submissions

    – DEADLINE: 15 December, 2010. Midnight, wherever you are. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for its February 2011 issue (Issue 13). Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission…