• Poets in the Bookshop with Ivy Alvarez The Dylan Thomas CentreThursday, 25 June at 7.30pm Ivy Alvarez is this month’s guest poet at the Dylan Thomas Centre‘s Poets in the Bookshop on Thursday, 25 June at 7.30pm. Ivy Alvarez was…

  • Kavita Jindal will be organising the following events for the Poetry Society‘s Centenary in 2009 at Osterley Park & House, a National Trust property in London. 1. June 28 Poetry Tent and Poetry Competition 2. August 30 Poetry Workshop 3.…

  • J. A. Tyler‘s “& (thirty-three)” is now published in the latest issue (issue 3.2) of Prick of the Spindle. The new issue contains a fine selection of poetry, fiction, reviews, artwork and drama by Ken Narasaki. J. A. Tyler’s fiction…

  • Anindita Sengupta‘s four new poems “Desire. 15” (p. 24), “Totem” (p. 25), “Hide” (p. 26) and “Shoulders” (p. 27) are now published in the June 2009 issue (issue #13) of Origami Condom. Read the poems here (pdf). Anindita Sengupta’s poetry…

  • – UNDER THE MOON, UNDER THE RAIN-HAT–0 Normally, the process for choosing a cover image for an upcoming issue of Cha is quite straightforward, and my co-editor and I come to a consensus without much trouble. This time, however, the…

  • THE YEAR OF THE SHOE For a few days following the incident at Cambridge University in which a young German protestor threw a shoe at Chinese Premier Wen Jiaboa, the small thread of the web that originates from my house…

  • Cha contributors Bob Bradshaw and E.K. Entrada are in the editorial board of Sotto Voce Magazine. Bob is an assistant poetry editor and E.K. is an assistant fiction editor. Do check out the magazine for a well-selected range of poetry,…

  • Bob Bradshaw’s new poem “The Deaf Boy in High School” is now published in the June 2009 issue of The Orange Room Review. Read Bob Bradshaw’s Cha profile.

  • The latest issue of In The Grove (founding editor and publisher: Lee Herrick) is now available online. It features the 2008 William Saroyan Centennial Prize winners; poetry from David Campos, Yu-Han Chao, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Charles Hood, Sam Pierstorff, Dixie…

  • Date: Friday, 19 June 2009 Venue: The POD, Level 16, National Library, Victoria Street Time: 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm Programme: 6:30 Guests sign in, tea reception begins 7:00 Publishers speak 7:15 Gilbert Koh speaks, reading 7:35 David Fedo speaks,…