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  • – Three poems by W.F. Lantry are now featured on String Poet: “Sight”, “Vision” and “Weather”. You can also watch a video of Bill reading the poem “Visionary” here. – W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha. – =

  • – Marc Vincenz’s poem “The General and His Little Panda Paws”, previously published by MiPOesias, is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. ––

  • – New works by W.F. Lantry and Robert Raymer are now featured in the current edition of Istanbul Literary Review (Issue #20). Read Bill’s three poems (“Miranda”, “Deirdre”, and “Green Tara”) and the short story “Lake Mirror” as well as Robert’s story…

  • Reading on June 17 Toto Funds the Arts is delighted to invite you to a reading by poet and author Mani Rao of her radical, literary translation of the Bhagavad Gita She will be in conversation with Arshia Sattar Venue:…

  • [Click image to enlarge] – – Todd Swift’s poems were published in issue #2 , issue #3 and issue #11 of Cha. Greg Santos’s poetry was published in issue #10 of Cha. – –

  • – You can now read Alistair Noon’s poem “Hill with Bunker and Flak Tower” on the Longbarrow Press website. The poem, first published in Gists and Piths, will be included in Alistair’s forthcoming pamphlet Swamp Area (revised and expanded from…

  • J.A. Tyler’s “[ the fourth house /// rebuilt ]” is now published in >kill author. Read the piece here. You can also listen to Tyler’s reading of the work (it is very good). – – J.A. Tyler’s fiction was published…

  • – “The superiority of intellectual to sensual pleasures consists rather in their filling up more time, in their having a larger range, and in their being less liable to satiety, than in their being more real and essential.” “Intemperance in…

  • –– See this post about a famous parrot in the literary world. In Paul West’s Lord Byron’s Doctor (1989), J. W. Polidori writes, ‘He [Byron] never actually said Pretty Polly, but it was in his eye, all right, and I suppose I was a…

  • ,  Here are some quotes from Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot which I found particularly interesting. Isn’t the most reliable form of pleasure, Flaubert implies, the pleasure of anticipation? Who needs to burst into fulfilment’s desolate attic? p. 4 When I was a…

  • The Kiss (1897-8) by Munch  Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours, answers in a Guardian article: [Virginia Woolf] wrote not at all about sex. Her entire body of work contains two romantic kisses – one in The Voyage Out, another…

  • 不想回憶, 未敢忘記 we stand on the side of the egg ::: 離 離 原 上 草 ,   一 歲 一 枯 榮 。 野 火 燒 不 盡 ,   春 風 吹 又 生 。 from 草 | 白 居 易

  • [Click image to enlarge] “Here we are in old Shanghai. But many of the buildings here have a kind of symbol stamped on them. This means simply one word — DEMOLISH.” DEMOLISH. DEMOLISH. DEMOLISH. DEMOLISH. And so on. “The massive rebuilding programme…

  • – Marc Vincenz’s new poem “Self-Portrait of a Lion as His Own Mistress” (pp. 46-47) with an audio in synergy with Kristy Gordon’s triptych “But my heart does not in any way agree with the perception of my eyes” can…

  • – – Bob Bradshaw’s poem “Vincent Writes from Saint-Paul Hospital” and Sam Byfield’s “The Mountain and the River” are now published in the June 2011 issue of Lily: A Monthly Online Literary Review.  0 Read Bob Bradshaw’s Cha profile. Read Sam…

  • – Marc Vincenz’s poem “Suzie Lam Scorns the Happy Marriage Dating Agency” is now published in the June 2011 issue of Stirring. Read it here. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –

  • The Literary Centre, a Singaporean not-for-profit organisation has initiated a new project in collaboration with SMRT- Moving Words 2011 – to feature poetry written by Singaporeans in SMRT trains and stations.The Moving Words Poetry Competition is calling for entries that…

  • –Not entirely true. It seems to me that not only is largeness itself never willing to be large and small at the same time, but also that the largeness in us never admits the small, nor is it willing to…

  • – Gillian Sze’s poem “Like This Together” is now published in the thirteenth issue of carte blanche. Read the poem here. – Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile. – –

  • Date: Thursday, June 2, 2011 Time: 4PM to 8PM Place: 25 West 43rd Street, 19th Floorbetween 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan Free Admission – Limited Space, Registration RequiredTo register, please call 212-869-0182.  For thousands of years, rivers – both East and West –…

  • – Read Michelle Cahill’s poems “José”, “Departures” and “Circa 1916” as well as Nicolette Wong’s flash pieces  “Abandon” and “The Dream Boat” in the June 2011 issue of Fox Chase Review. – Michelle Cahill’s poetry was published in issue #2 of Cha.…

  • – J. A. Tyler is in No Tell Motel all this week. Read, for example, “Ghosts”. He discusses his new poetic form here.  – J.A. Tyler’s fiction was published in Issue #1 of Cha. – –

  • – Nicolette Wong’s flash story “The Statue” is now published in the fourth issue of Ramshackle Review (June 2011). Read it here.  – Nicolette Wong’s short stories were published in Issue #1 and Issue #6 of Cha. – –

  • – Two new poems by Alistair Noon, “Beside the Beltic” and “The Molecule Man”, are now published in The Literateur. Check them out here. – Alistair Noon’s poetry and creative non-fiction were published in issue #2 of Cha. His poem “The Expat Partner: An…

  • – Marc Vincenz’s poem “Convex”, previously published in Nth Position, is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. ––

  • ‘If Bob Dylan from the 60s took a look at stand-up comedy today, I think it would be a little bit like this’ –the comedian Stewart Lee: There’s a bus that never comes, except in threes.There’s a train that never…

  • Back in 2008, the partner introduced me to a song by The Lucksmiths, “The Chapter in Your Life Entitled San Francisco” (click here to listen to the song). This love song is pleasant to listen to and the story is sad…

  • In Chris Marker’s documentary, a woman narrates letters from a friend who is a world-traveller. He has been to Japan, Africa, Iceland, San Francisco, and France. The thought-provoking images and poetic commentary in this documentary invite us to meditate on…

  • – Marc Vincenz’s poem “Base Pairs”, previously published in Poets & Artists, is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. ––

  • – Sushma Joshi’s short story “The Discovery of the High Lama” is now published in East of the Web. Read it here. ––Sushma Joshi’s fiction has been published in issue #3 of Cha.––