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– Royston Tester’s short story “A Beijing Minute” is now published in the July 2011 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Read it here. A review of Jee Leong Koh’s Seven Studies for a Self Portrait by Nicholas Liu is…
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– Marc Vincenz’s poem “Barcelona B a c k h a n d”, previously published in Danse Macabre, is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –
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– – ––The Woman…………………………..by Robert Creeley I have neverclearly given to youthe associationsyou have for me, you with suchdivided presence my dreamdoes not showyou. I do not dream. I have compoundedthese sensations, theaccumulation of the thingsleft me by you. Always…
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– Read Marc Vincenz’s new poems “star twisted,” and “Downriver” and Mary-Jane Newton’s poems “You, Becoming”, “Enter and Name” and “How To Be Victorious” in the July/August 2011 issue of THIS Literary Magazine. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue…
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Links:The Arts HouseFacebook event page “ Is there space for poetry in the mental life of people in Singapore and Hong Kong? How does one survive and thrive in these two ultra-modern, pragmatic and cosmopolitan cities and stay true to…
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In Alias Grace (1996), Margaret Atwood answers from a woman’s perspective: [Y]ou may think a bed is a peaceful thing, Sir, and to you it may mean rest and comfort and a good night’s sleep. But it isn’t so for…
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www.asiancha.com We are very happy to announce that “The China Issue” is now live. We would like to thank our guest editor Mai Mang (Yibing Huang) for reading the poetry and prose submissions with us as well as curating the…
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www.asiancha.com We are very happy to announce that “The China Issue” is now live. We would like to thank our guest editor Mai Mang (Yibing Huang) for reading the poetry and prose submissions with us as well as curating the…
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originally posted here THE CHINESE CURSE “May you live in interesting times.” Thus goes the first part of the famous Chinese curse, or at least the curse commonly attributed to the Chinese. Like all good curses at first sight it…
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originally posted here CHINA: WHAT IT IS, WHAT IT COULD BE . In an interview in 2008, I was asked whether my loyalty lay with “Hong Kong” or “China.” I remember finding the question easy to answer: “Hong Kong,…
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– The Private Parts Issue of Branch Magazine is now live. You can read and enjoy the extremely beautiful new issue here. Branch is co-founded and co-edited by Gillian Sze and Roberutsu. Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile. Roberutsu’s artwork was published…
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The July issue of Asymptote is now live. This is the publication’s biggest and boldest issue to date. It features a new Upaniṣad translation, master of the lyric novel Shen Congwen, “Ghalib Redux”, poems by Tomaž Šalamun, the philosophy of…
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– Nicholas Y. B. Wong’s poem “They Say the Spring Breeze Has Come” is now published in qarrtsiluni. Read it here. – See Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha profile. – –
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–Gillian Sze’s new poems “Gypsy Moth” and “To the Photographer in the Countryside” are now published in Room. Learn more here.–Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile.––
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– Gillian Sze’s new poem “The Day After I Lost My Mittens” is now published in Encore Literary Magazine. Read it here. – Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile. – –
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Edinburgh, May 2011 ––ARIEL.All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I comeTo answer thy best pleasure; be’t to fly,To swim, to dive into the fire, to rideOn the curl’d clouds; to thy strong bidding taskAriel and all his quality. …..…
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Quote of the day – Pamuk on ‘dissatisfaction’ I was reading the “The New Lyric Studies” section of the January 2008 edition of PMLA but found the interview with Orhan Pamuk interesting as well. In it, Pamuk talks about his…
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‘Honour of the cucumber’ ‘Cucumber sandwiches’ — often a simplistic avatar of the English upper class in literature. I have never had one, have you? ’[P]oems are worth all the cucumber-sandwiches in the world […] the perfect green circles —…
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–Nicolette Wong’s flash fiction “The Warrior” is now up at Apocrypha and Abstractions. Read it here.–Nicolette Wong’s short stories were published in Issue #1 and Issue #6 of Cha.–=
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– Lyn Lifshin’s poem “My Mother and the Lilacs” is now published in the latest issue of Verse Wisconsin. Read it here. – Lyn Lifshin’s poems were published in issue 4 and issue 10 of Cha = =
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– W.F. Lantry’s short stories “Mermaid”, “Visitation” and “Transference” are now published in the latest issue of Connotation Press. You can also read an interview with Bill by Meg Tuite. – W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha. –…
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Robert E. Wood has three new poems in the Summer 2011 issue of The Rose and Thorn Journal. The poems are “Weary Willie“, “Tuba Player” and “Bouquet of Daffodils for Daffy Duck“. Read them here. – – Robert E. Wood’s…
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From Harold Pinter’s Betrayal (1978): You’re lovely. I’m crazy about you. All these words I’m using, don’t you see, they’ve never been said before. Can’t you see? I’m crazy about you. It’s a whirlwind. Have you ever been to the Sahara Desert? Listen…
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– Marc Vincenz’s poem “Tai Ch’i Master”, previously published in Right Hand Pointing, is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –
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“That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And…
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–Read Vaughan Rapatahana’s new work in issue #30 of Blackmail Press.–Vaughan Rapatahana’s poetry has been published in Issue #8 of Cha.––
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“Dear Toddlekins,” said little Trot,“May I talk to you a while?”“Why, yeth, of courthe,” said Toddlekins,With a bashful little smile. “Now, Toddlekins,” said little Trot,“If we should meet a bear”——“Good graciouth me!” said Toddlekins,“You give me thuch a thcare!” “If…
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Home Away Elsewhere Semi-finalist for the inaugural Proverse Prize Vaughan Rapatahana Rapatahana’s poems make significant patterns out of the randomness of life’s events and give succinct and effective voice to the peculiarly modern condition of the global nomad at once…
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– Cha contributor Vaughan Rapatahana will act as guest editor for Issue #31 of Blackmail Press, one of Aotearoa-New Zealand’s leading online poetry journals. For the issue they are asking for submissions of original poems on the theme of marginalization, on being…
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– Maori and Indigenous (MAI) Review Journal (poetry editor: Vaughan Rapatahana), an online magazine dedicated to the development of indigenous peoples, is calling for submissions of up to four original (i.e. previously unpublished) poems. Submissions are accepted all year around and…
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