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  • Concelebratory Shoehorn Review 49

    Issue #49 of Concelebratory Shoehorn Review (editor: Maurice Oliver) is now online. Read poetry by “Robert Peake, Sean Hill, Amy King, Allison Joseph, Ira Sadoff, Alicia Hoffman, Scott Owens, and Vicki Thornton”. Also included in this issue is photography of…

  • Asymptote Journal: A New International Literary Journal

    “– Announcing the launch of ASYMPTOTE, a new international literary journal dedicated to the art and practice of translation. Founded out of Singapore, with editors scattered across the globe, ASYMPTOTE offers a well-calibrated window on world literature, in all its…

  • Marc Vincenz and J.A. Tyler in elimae

    – The February 2011 issue of elimae is out now and it features Marc Vincenz’s poem “The She” and J.A. Tyler’s short story “I Started by Building a House” and review of Jacob Wren’s Families are Formed Through Copulation. –…

  • Bernard Henrie, Royston Tester and Gilbert Koh in QLRS

    – The January 2011 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore is live! Read Bernard Henrie’s poems “President Obama at Xavier’s College, India” and “I Was Only a Chambermaid”; Royston Tester’s short story, “Bird on a High Branch” (written when he…

  • Aryanil Mukherjee and Marc Vincenz in Lantern Review

    Cover image: “Blackbird,” composite photograph by Anannya Dasgupta –We are very happy to say that the second issue (Winter 2011) of Lantern Review is now available! Among the wonderful poetry and visual art featured in the issue are Aryanil Mukherjee’s “honeycomb…

  • Ankur Agarawal in Shot Glass Journal

    – Three poems by Ankur Agarwal, “spokes/blue/earth”, “Knock” and “La Vie”, are now published in Shot Glass Journal, an online journal devoted to shorter poetry. Enjoy the shots! –Read Ankur Agarwal’s Cha profile.–

  • Gillian Sze in Prairie Fire

    – Gillian Sze’s poem “The Right Tenor”, forthcoming in her Anatomy of Clay (ECW Press, April 2011), is now published in Prairie Fire.  – Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile. –

  • Ouyang Yu’s Man Dong Zuo (Slow Motion)

    Man Dong Zuo (Slow Motion), A new Chinese poetry book by Ouyang Yu is available now. Price: $59.95 Titled Man Dong Zuo (Slow Motion), this collection contains the lushest and most sexy poetry Ouyang Yu has ever written in Chinese. This…

  • "How to Open at Will the Window onto the Most Beautiful Landscapes in the World and Elsewhere"?

    Drawing for The Exquisite Corpse by Victor Brauner, André Breton, Jacques Hérold and Yves Tanguy, 1935. HOW TO OPEN AT WILL THE WINDOW ONTO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPES IN THE WORLD AND ELSEWHERE With a large brush spread black gouache,…

  • Benelux 2009

    Finally, a new home for this little trip we took in 2009. – –

  • Kristine Ong Muslim in Every Day Fiction

    – Kristine Ong Muslim’s short story “Flowers, Secrets” is featured on Every Day Fiction. Read it here. – Kristine Ong Muslim’s poetry was published in issue #9 of Cha. –

  • The tooth fairy’s biggest secret

    The curator said that this basin in a Paris hotel is the tooth fairy’s biggest secret! (But the fairy doesn’t know my secret!)

  • Gillian Sze in Poetry Quebec

    Two poems by Gillian Sze, “Calyptic Memory” and “Hands”, are now published in the seventh issue of Poetry Quebec. – Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile. –

  • If you enter a bathroom where a woman is standing naked… how do you display true tact?

    . In his recent LRB article on Wikileaks, “Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks” (recommended), Slavoj Žižek (2011) answers: . In Baisers volés, Delphine Seyrig explains to her young lover the difference between politeness and tact: ‘Imagine you inadvertently enter…

  • What was the strongest candidate for the original tree of knowledge of good and evil in the seventeenth century?

    “Temptation”, from a German version of the Vita of Adam & Eve.  Marina Warner in the article “Bananas” (1995) answers: In the seventeenth century, when savants were as keen on gardening as on the Bible, the general opinion of herbalists…

  • "This is what your lips smell like?"

    This exchange didn’t make it in the final film. [You can compare the film and the full script (as of 06/09/2009) — many changes have been made.] –

  • Measurements: Sketches from Hong Kong

    –– Measurements: Sketches from Hong KongEds. Melanie Ho & Simon OvertonHong Kong Writers Circle – The Hong Kong Writers Circle has released its sixth anthology of some of Hong Kong’s best English-language writing from the past year. Measurement: Sketches from Hong…

  • An evening of poetry, prose & Music with Gillian Sze and others (23 February, 2011)

    FEBRUARY 23, 2011 – AN EVENING OF POETRY, PROSE & MUSIC Visual Arts Centre School of Art / McClure Gallerywww.visualartscentre.ca350 Victoria Avenue, Montreal, QCProducer/host Ilona Martonfi Wednesday, February 23, 2011Doors 7:00 pm Reading 7:30 pm At the door $5MORE INFORMATION HERE. Read Gillian…

  • Priyadarshi Patnaik and O Thiam Chin in Asiatic

    – Priyadarshi Patnaik’s poem “Voices – House at Puri” [pdf] and O Thiam Chin’s short fiction “The Cleaner’s Daughter” [pdf] are now published in the December 2010 issue of Asiatic.  Priyadarshi Patnaik’s photograph “Flight of the Toads” is the cover image of…

  • Bob Bradshaw in Eclectica Magazine

    Bob Bradshaw has a new poem, “Building A Plane”, in the new issue of Eclectica Magazine. “Clouds like surf stretched towards Japan. // I started work on the plane’s belly, / and lived inside it for months.” — read the rest of…

  • Highgate Cemetery without Karl Marx

    On Saturday, we went to Highgate Cemetery where we took a guided tour of the West side. Highgate Cemetery is divided into two sections: the West and East sides. Most visitors go to the East side to see the graves…

  • Black Heart Magazine interviews Greg Santos

    Laura Roberts of Black Heart Magazine interviews pax americana poetry editor Greg Santos. Read the article here. – Greg Santos’s poetry was published in issue #10 of Cha. –

  • Xu Xi in The Straits Times

    There is an article on Xu Xi titled “Wonder Women”  in The Straits Times and it can be read on Haven Books website here [PDF]. – Xu Xi’s creative non-fiction was published in issue #6 of Cha. –

  • Rumjhum Biswas’s and W.F. Lantry’s poems named finalists of Aesthetica’s Creative Works Competition

    – Rumjhum Biswas’s “Cleavage” and W.F. Lantry’s “Talavera” were named finalists of Aesthetica Magazine‘s Creative Works Competition 2010. The magazine is currently accepting submissions for its 2011 competition. Check out the information here. – Rumjhum Biswas’s poem “Bones” was published in issue…

  • Royston Tester in Grain Magazine

    – Royston Tester’s short story “Dotty”, set in England and Canada, is now published in “The Unruly Issue” of Canada’s Grain Magazine. – Read Royston Tester’s Cha profile. –

  • Jee Leong Koh in The Flea

    Image by Mark Bulwinkle Jee Leong Koh’s poem “Let This Year” is now published in the twelve issue of The Flea. Read it here. – Jee Leong Koh’s poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha. –

  • City University of Hong Kong MFA Open House Sat Jan 22

    Department of English, City University of Hong Kong WHY DO YOU NEED A CREATIVE WRITING MFA? You can’t learn writing in school, right? If you have a good story you just write it, right? Well maybe, but if so, why are…

  • Jee Leong Koh in Mixed Nerve

    – Two poems by Jee Leong Koh are published in Issue #7 of Mixed Nerve.  – Jee Leong Koh’s poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha. –

  • Kudos – for people who prize writing #86

    ‘Great to sit down with a coffee, and see what competitions and opportunities are available rather than trawl the internet, which feels too much like work’ (Lyn Fountain, Norwich Writers’ Circle) Kudos 86 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011 Runs mainly from the end of January…

  • Phill Provance’s The Day the Sun Rolled Out of the Sky

    – CGP 24: The Day the Sun Rolled Out of the Sky by Phill Provance  (28 pp. Saddle-Stitched. B&w illus. by Christopher Schmidt) $7 ppd. From the Cy Gist Press website: In his debut collection, Andalucian dog Phill Provance weds humor and pathos.…