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  • – Read Yibing Huang’s (pen name: Mai Mang) “Four Poems on River” and Craig Santos Perez’s “Postterrain 3” and “Postterrain 4” in the First Peoples, Plural section of the new issue of Drunken Boat. – Read Yibing Huang’s Cha profile.…

  • 0 Two poems by Changming Yuan, “At Fraser River Park: Off-Leash Dogs Welcome” and “The Fengshui Rule for Yin Residence”, are now published in the new issue of Danse Macabre. Read them here. – Changming Yuan’s poetry was published in Issue…

  • – Changming Yuan’s poem “Pseudoscience Or Not, The Ancient 5-Element Theory Accounts for Us All” is now published in the March 2011 issue of Subliminal Interiors. Do you know the five elements? Read the poem here to learn more. –Changming…

  • – Marc Vincenz’s poem “Rust” is now featured on the frontispage of the new issue of Danse Macabre, Goulasch. Scroll to the bottom of this page and read the piece. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. –

  • – Sam Byfield’s new poems “A Christmas Poem”, “Beneath a Soppong Sun” and “Southerly Impromptus” are now published in the very elegant Softblow. You can read the poems here. –Read Sam Byfield’s Cha profile.–

  • – Vineet Kaul’s poem “The Boondoggle of Curry Eating Surrender Monkeys” is now featured on Asia Writes. Read the piece here. – Vineet Kaul’s poetry was published in Issue #13 of Cha. –

  • Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s poem “Ritual” is now published in The Medulla Review. Read the poem here. – See Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha profile. – –

  • – W. F. Lantry’s poem “Kudzu” is now published in the second issue of Sliver of Stone Magazine. Read it here.  – W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha. –

  • – Rumjhum Biswas’s very short story “After the Apocalypse” is now published in the Spring 2011 issue of twenty20 Journal. Read it here. – Rumjhum Biswas’s poem “Bones” was published in issue #12 of Cha. The piece has been nominated for a Pushcart…

  • The poetry in the new issue of Cha is now available in a booklet. You can download it here. – –

  • – In the Spring 2011 issue of SideStreet Review, there is a gorgeous profile article on Gillian Sze, “Transformative Experiences”. You can read a preview of the piece and  purchase the issue in stores or from their website. “It is hardly…

  • – Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s poem “Testing the Law” is now published in the March 2011 issue of Stirring. Read it here. – See Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha profile. –

  • – Ocean Vuong‘s poems “To Love Well”, “Departure”, “My Mother Remembers Her Mother” and “In Defense of Poverty” are now published in the Winter 2011 issue of diode. Read the poems here. – Ocean Vuong’s poem “Paramour” was published in issue#10 of Cha; the…

  • – Mary-Jane Newton’s poems “Poem No 165” and “Xue-Li” are now featured on Eyewear. Read them here. – Mary-Jane Newton’s poetry and reviews were published in Issue 13 of Cha. –

  • – Cha contributor Mary-Jane Newton‘s first poetry collection Of Symbols Misused will be launched at the Proverse Hong Kong event on 9 March. Would you like to join? There are still a few tickets left for the independent Proverse event…

  • cover artist: annysa ng Dear All My apologies for bombarding you with messages of late. If you happen to be on Facebook, please consider supporting our Facebook page. We used to have a fairly successful “Group” but unfortunately Facebook has…

  • –The publication of my very short poem “The Final Straw” in the March 2011 issue of elimae reminded me of this day-trip to Winchester. Read on and you will see why. ::::: In March last year, we took a day…

  • Click HERE to read the February 2011 issue of Cha. The February 2011 issue of Cha has now been launched. We would like to thank Arthur Leung (poetry) and Reid Mitchell (prose) for returning to the post of guest editors…

  • originally posted here When You Live with a Poet When you live with a poet, you know exactly which three-year-old work she means when she asks, “Did you like the enjambment in the second stanza?” When you live with a…

  • The poem alluded to in this post is now published in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. There are two squirrels in a recent poem I wrote roaming in the garden outside the kitchen. I put them in the work not because…

  • Jocelyn Bell Burnell talks about the logic of Science in this episode of Beautiful Minds. The following is my transcription: Way back in the Middle Ages, they thought that planets went round the sun in circles. Perfect circles. They had…

  • From their website: The annual NUS Literary Society Evening of Poetry and Music will feature upcoming writers and literary figures, interspersed with live musical performances from NUS music groups. Also included in the EPM will be the prize presentation for…

  • – W. F. Lantry’s poem about Wisconsin Protests, “Vision”, can be read here. – W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha. –

  • – W. F. Lantry’s short story “Desire” and J. A. Tyler’s short story “Variations of a Brother War” are now published in the February 2011 issue of The Dead Mule. W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 of Cha. J.A. Tyler’s…

  • Three poems by Jee Leong Koh, “In His Other House”, “The Hospital Life” and “The Bowl”, are now featured on the “New Worlds” section of Mascara Literary Review. Read the poems here.0Jee Leong Koh’s poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.– ––

  • “The Swing” (1767) by Jean-Honoré Fragonard  Harold Bloom (1994) sums up Johan Huizinga’s summary of the properties of play: 1) freedom2) disinterestedness3) excludedness or limitedness4) orderJohan Huizinga’s Homo Ludens (1944), p. 13: Summing up the formal characteristics of play we might call it a free activity…

  • – Congratulations to Craig Santos Perez! His poetry collection From Unincorporated Territory {Saina}, published by Omnidawn, is a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry. You can purchase a copy of the book directly here. The Los…

  • – Two reviews by Craig Santos Perez are published in Zoland Poetry: – 1) Craig reviews David Buuck’s The Shunt (Palm Press) 2) Craig reviews Jen Hofer’s One (Palm Press) – Craig Santos Perez’s review was been published in issue #9 of Cha. –

  • 0 Marc Vincenz’s new poem “Post Nuclear Love Child” is now published in Poets & Artists. You can also listen to his reading of the work.  – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. –

  • –From the HKU Library website: How much is a writer the character(s) of her novels? Authorial distance can often be hard to gauge in books that are supposedly “fiction.” Come and join this provocative conversation between author Xu Xi and…