• Meet Mark Stringer

    Do you remember Mark Stringer’s “City Lantern”, which was published in the February 2008 issue of Cha? The photograph was subsequently reprinted in Issue 22 of BluePrintReview, on the editor Dorothee Lang’s request. In the grainy image, the lonely lantern…

  • Nicholas Y.B. Wong Wins Oblongata Contest #3

    Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s poem “All About My Mother”, which begins with the lines ‘She sprawled in the bed, / a corpse with a beating heart, / circled by four other men. Or five?’, wins The Medulla Review‘s third Oblongata Contest.…

  • Divya Rajan and Accents

    Divya Rajan’s poem “Then” will be read by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer of Accents Publishing on her radio show Accents – A Radio Show for Literature, Art and Culture on WRFL, 88.1 FM, Lexington, Kentucky, this Friday (2-3 pm). The show is…

  • Meet Annie Zaidi

    If your lover wants to be so close to you, so close, closer than your skin, how will you respond? Annie Zaidi’s poem “Diaphragm”, which will be published in the September 2010 issue of Cha, explores this topic, and the…

  • Craig Santos Perez in The Offending Adam

    Craig Santos Perez has a few new poems published in The Offending Adam. Read them here. – – Craig Santos Perez’s review was been published in issue #9 of Cha. – –

  • Craig Santos Perez in Jacket Magazine

    – Read Craig Santos Perez’s review of Francisco Aragón’s Glow of our Sweat in the latest issue of Jacket Magazine. –– Craig Santos Perez’s review was been published in issue #9 of Cha. – –

  • Meet Phill Provance

    It was love at first read. We will be publishing Phill Provance’s “St. Petersburg Has Many Churches”, which will also appear in Danse Macabre, in the September 2010 issue of Cha. Our guest editor commented, ‘the playfulness of the poem…

  • Meet Clara Hsu

    Many of you know Xu Zhimo (1897-1931), one of the most distinguished Chinese poets in the twentieth century. In the September 2010 issue of Cha, Clara Hsu, whose poem “Pigeon Cage Blues” was published by us in 2008, will be…

  • Meet Yip Wai Shan

    Photo of Yip © Benny Thong Fact 1: Yip Wai Shan knows us very well. Fact 2: Her picture (above) is awesome. Fact 3: Her photography sequence “Dry” will appear in the September 2010 Issue of Cha. Fact 4: These…

  • Asia Writes — Selected Poems for Nomination to Best of the Net 2010

    Congratulations to the following Cha contributors whose poems have been nominated by Asia Writes for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2010: Nicholas Y. B. Wong (“I Am Mark Joseph“), Luis A. Igloria (“Paradise“) and Iris A. Law (“on…