• Each Crumbling House by Melody S. Gee

    We are very happy to announce that Cha contributor Melody S. Gee‘s first collection of poetry, Each Crumbling House, is now published by Perugia Press. Each Crumbling House won the 2010 Perugia Press Book Prize. – Book description: How is…

  • June 2010 Issue of Asiatic Journal is launched

    The June 2010 issue of Asiatic is now live. Read Eddie Tay’s review of Writing Singapore: An Historical Anthology of Singapore Literature pdf, Agnes Lam’s review of Tumasik: Contemporary Writing from Singapore pdf (edited by Alvin Pang), and a review…

  • A Message to Po Chu-I by W. S. Merwin

    Po Chu-I (白居易), poet from the Tang Dynasty A Message to Po Chu-I–W.S. Merwin – In that tenth winter of your exilethe cold never letting go of youand your hunger aching inside youday and night while you heard the voicesout…

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  • The Urbanized Villages in the South Jiangsu Province by Xu Ming-de

    Picture from here The Urbanized Villages in the South Jiangsu Province–Xu Ming-de, translated from the Chinese by Ziqing Zhang –– There are no longer bird’s nests in sparse treesnor any smoke rising from kitchen chimneys aroundthe tree branches in the…

  • Marco Yan in Foundling Review

    Cha contributor Marco Yan has a new poem, “Fishing by the City Ferry Pier”, published in the new issue of Foundling Review. Read the poem here. Remember to read Marco’s note on the piece as well! – –Marco Yan’s fiction…

  • Nine Million Bicycles by Mike Batt

    Picture from here Nine Million Bicycles–Mike Batt[Listen to the song here.]– There are nine million bicycles in BeijingThat’s a fact,It’s a thing we can’t denyLike the fact that I will love you till I die. We are twelve billion light…

  • Drunken Boat is calling for submissions: "First Peoples, Plural"

    Call for Submissions:First Peoples, Plural. Drunken Boat is now accepting submissions for its “First Peoples, Plural” folio, to debut in issue #13 this winter. We will be considering poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, visual art, sound art, video art, and…

  • Empress for a Month by Agnes Lam

    Picture from here Empress for a Month –Agnes Lam – –Did you know,our Empress Dowager,when you were insistingon taking fundsfrom the national treasurymeant for the protection of the peopleto build the Summer Palacefor your personal treasurethat one daythe fruits of…

  • Nicolette Wong in slingshot litareview

    – – – Nicole Wong has a new piece of flash fiction, titled “Memories of Hamburg”, published in slingshot litareview: “I came to know your country of castles on square streets between rivers into the haunted night as you speak,…