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  • – Marc Vincenz’s translation of Erika Burkart’s poem “An Early Morning in Daylight-Saving Summer” is now out at Guernica. ‘Some are sucked back into the nightmare; / those that remain, dive into cracks—’ – Read Marc Vincenz’s Cha profile. –

  • – Alistair Noon‘s poem “White Water”, from his recent Longbarrow pamphlet Across the Water, is now up at Rob Hindle’s poetry blog. Read the poem here. – Alistair Noon’s poetry and creative non-fiction were published in issue #2 of Cha. His poem “The Expat…

  • – Ivy Alvarez will be reading on 13 March 2012. More information here. –Read Ivy Alvarez’s Cha profile. –

  • – Ricky Garni‘s poem “Fill in the Blank” is now featured in The Circus Blog. Read it here. –Ricky Garni’s poetry will appear in Issue #16 of Cha. –

  • – Cha‘s Associate Editor Royston Tester‘s new book Fatty Goes to China (Tightrope Books) will be launched in Toronto, Canada, on 1 May 2012. The cover artist is Zhang Xiaogang. Cha has the privilege to feature the title story of the collection,…

  • – Marc Vincenz’s poem “[Earth-Shaving]” is now up at October Babies. The poem was previously published in TRUCK. – Read Marc Vincenz’s Cha profile. –

  • In her Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and The Imagination 1830-1880, Isobel Armstrong has this wonderful reflection on ‘black’ and ‘white’: White paper in full moonlight is darker than black satin in daylight, or a dark object with the sun shining…

  • – An interview with Anna Yin is now available in China Daily. In the interview, Anna says, “After all, only poetry can help me find inner peace. Through writing, I can feel every moment of my life. That makes me…

  • W.F. Lantry‘s poem “Gacela of the Heron’s Dream” is included in a Language of the Birds anthology in Uzbekistan. The poem was translated into Uzbek. You can read the poem in both English and Uzbek here.–Read W.F. Lantry’s Cha profile –

  • Four poems by Gillian Sze, “Plotting”, “Kitchen Table”, “Two Minutes in Muar” and “Sowing”, are now published in the second issue of The Rusty Toque.  – Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile. –

  • – Ocean Vuong’s poem “Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome” is published in the inaugural issue of THRUSH Poetry Journal. Read it here. – Ocean Vuong’s poem “Paramour” was published in issue#10 of Cha; the poem has been nominated for inclusion in Best of the…

  • In  Oxford Journals’  The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Nerys Williams reviews Kit Kelen’s Rodopi book Poetry, Consciousness, Community. Williams writes: Kelen skillfully sutures together essays on poetry and writing, ranging from Freud’s hypotheses on day dreaming and Julia Kristeva’s Revolution in…

  • By Sam Nallen Copley The Great Wave off Kanagawa  Around 180 years ago, Tokitarō (the birth name of Katsushika Hokusai), an elderly man from Eastern Japan embarked on a new project. His second wife had just passed away, his first having…

  • The March 2012 Hong Kong Poetry OutLoud event will be devoted to a book launch: the debut of Canadian poet Kate Rogers’s second collection, City of Stairs, courtesy of Haven Books and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. For this…

  • – The 4.2 issue of Sweet: A literary Confection (founding editor: Ira Sukrungruang)  is now available. Read the new issue here. – Ira Sukrungruang’s poetry has been published in issue #9 of Cha. –

  • – Anna Yin’s Wings Toward Sunlight is reviewed in the Fall 2011 issue of Loch Raven Review. Read the review here. – Anna Yin’s poem “Raspberries“, published in the November 2009 issue of Cha, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Read “A cup of…

  • –An interview with Tony Barnstone by Wilda Morris is now available at Poetry Flash. Read it here.–Tony Barnstone’s translation was published in Issue #14 of Cha. –

  • Ocean Vuong has three poems recorded for the One Pause Poetry Project. He read an original poem, a poem for children, and one from another poet (Ocean chose Linh Dinh’s “Borderless Body”). You can listen to the recordings here.  –…

  • – Ricky Garni’s poem “I Am There” is published in Everyday Genius. His other poems in Everyday Genuis are “Paris in the Springtime”, “Discovery” and a selection from TELE-FRICASSEE.  – Ricky Garni’s poetry will appear in Issue #16 of Cha.…

  • – Marc Vincenz’s poem “Self-Portrait of a Lion as His Own Mistress” is now up at October Babies. The poem was previously published in Poets and Artists. – Read Marc Vincenz’s Cha profile. –

  • – Ching-In Chen’s poem “The Absent Thing” is now up at Glitter Tongue. Read it here. – Ching-In Chen’s poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.  –

  • – Christopher Barnes’s poem “Joanna Lumley” and Kristine Ong Muslim’s poem “Steady Glide” are now published in the “Contraption” issue of Fuselit. – Christopher Barnes’s poetry was published in Issue #15 of Cha. Kristine Ong Muslim’s poetry was published in issue…

  • By Sam Nallen Copley   Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Probably no one who attempts suicide… is fully aware of all his motives, which are usually too complex. At least in my case it is prompted by a vague sense of anxiety, a vague…

    [EXCLUSIVE] “Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s Last Letter” by Sam Nallen Copley
  • In The Anatomy of Influence (2011), Harold Bloom reminisces about W.H. Auden: I treasure ruefully some memories of W.H. Auden that go back to the middle 1960s, when he arrived in New Haevn to give a reading of his poems at Ezra…

  • From Harold Bloom’s The Anatomy of Influence (2011), p. 249: “Naming” (as in Theodor Adorno and Walter Benjamin) is closer to the real concerns of literature. I am moved here by my own splendid name of “Bloom,” particularly since my personal…

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  • – Iain S. Baird’s award-winning story, “A New York Moment”, first appeared in the Seven Hills Review, is now posted at The Story Within. Iain S. Baird’s creative non-fiction “A Night at the Taj” was published in Issue #9 of Cha.

  • Vineet Kaul’s poem “A Soliloquy of Dust” is now published in Newcastle’s Centre for Literary Art’s Magazine – Friction Issue #4. Read the poem here. – See Vineet Kaul’s Cha profile.  –

  • – The February edition of Curbside Splendor features the poem “High Noon” (pp. 6-8) by J. H. Martin. Read the entire issue here.– – J.H. Martin’s poetry was published in Issue #15 of Cha. –

  • – Marc Vincenz’s “Familiar”  is now up at October Babies. It was previously published in Connotation Press. – Read Marc Vincenz’s Cha profile. ––