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Whale Sound is Nic Sebastian’s project. According to Nic, “My idea is to record and post readings of contemporary poems that affect me in one way or another.” Learn more about Whale Sound here.Several Cha contributors’ poems have been recorded…
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This post was originally written on 15th April, 2009. Judith Butler Judith Butler‘s prose style has often been criticised as ‘hard’ and unnecessarily perplexing. To some frustrated scholars, her thoughts must be very muddled and therefore can only be translated into…
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Venue: Fringe Club Date: 3 Nov 2010 (Wed) Time: 8pm Akin Jeje will MC – if you’d like to read in the open mic section, please email us at poetryoutloud@gmail.com About The Mental Life of Cities This collection is a meditation on…
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This post was originally written on 18th April, 2009. Today, the webmaster told me a story from Greg Egan‘s Axiomatic. The story, “The Hundred Light-Year Diary”, is about a future invention that allows people to send messages to themselves from…
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Because we do not have recordings uploaded on the Cha website, we are unsure of what this reader is talking about. Perhaps other editors have received a similar message? The email was addressed to a particular member of the Cha editorial team.…
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J. A. Tyler’s “Variations of a Brother War (Mother Triptych)” is now published in the November 2010 issue of decomP magazinE. Read the ‘triptych’ here. – – J. A. Tyler’s fiction was published in issue #1 of Cha. – –
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Jee Leong Koh’s “A Lover’s Recourse”, a sequence of 49 ghazals, is now published in at Length. ––Jee Leong Koh’s poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.––
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Issue Forty Six of Concelebratory Shoehorn Review (editor: Maurice Oliver) is now online. Read poetry by Felino A. Soriano, J.V. Foerster, Joy Helsing, Amber Nelson, John Hoppenthaler, Georgia Ann Banks-Martin, Babara Jane Reyes, and Guy Kettlehack. Also included in this…
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Ocean Vuong is interviewed by Brad Green at Dark Sky Magazine. Read the interview here. – – Ocean Vuong’s poem “Paramour” was published in issue#10 of Cha; the poem has been nominated for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2010. – –
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“One thing we should be aware of: in this age of globalisation, there’s this idea that English is becoming more and more expansive. In fact, much the opposite is happening: in the 19th century, English was much wider, more accepting…
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Several Cha contributors have new works published in the latest issue (October 2010) of Mascara Literary Review. Read Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s three poems “Rendez-vous at Pont des Arts”, “Fragile” and “My Grandmother Waters the Moon”; Cyril Wong’s three poems “School Bus”,…
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Read Bob Bradshaw’s “Nights in the Forbidden City”, Lee Yew Leong’s “mr cognito’s induction into the mile high club” and “Honey, I’m Off To Be A Jellyfish Now”. in the latest issue (October 2010) of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. – –…
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Written by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, this post was originally published on 5 April 2010. . In his Acknowledgements, Neil Gaiman cites Kipling’s The Jungle Book as an influence of his The Graveyard Book (note the similarity between Kipling’s and Gaiman’s…
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We are very pleased to announce Cha‘s nominations for the Pushcart Prize 2011. The sixth nominee was selected based on readers’ voting through email and on this blog. 1) Eddie Tay, “Night Thoughts” Read an analysis of this poem. (Issue…
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Written by Cha’s webmaster JJ, this post was originally posted on 16th September, 2009. Readers of this blog might already be familiar with Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, co-edited by Tammy and Jeff. I’m the webmaster of Cha, and Tammy…
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Louie Crew’s poems “Indelicate”, “Two Haiku”, “The Maledictions” and “Fine, Upstanding Citizens” are now published in Issue #19 of Otolith. – – Three poems by Louie Crew were published in issue #7 of Cha. – –
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Nicholas Ostler has a new book out: The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel (2010). In it, he argues that English, today’s global lingua franca, will die out, following the pattern of former great languages Sanskrit and Latin. He…
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This post was originally written on 11th May, 2010. BBC is currently running a series called “Modern Masters”, presented and narrated by the enthusiastic art journalist Alastair Sooke. The first episode was on Andy Warhol, whose life story, repeated so…
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Congratulations to Ocean Vuong whose poem “Burning House” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Fox Chase Review. This is his third Pushcart nominations (he was nominated two times last year). Born in 1988 in Saigon, Vietnam, Ocean is the…
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This post was originally written on 24th March, 2010. This morning, when reading Leonard Wolf’s The Essential Dracula, I learnt a bit more about the universal typing system (the subject of ‘typing’ is brought up as you may know, Mina…
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Cover art by Shida Cao My short poem “Dendrochronology” is now published in the latest issue (Fall 2010) of Willows Wept Review. The poem was written after a visit to the exhibition “Closer Examinations: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries” earlier this year. As the…
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This post was originally written on 4th December, 2009. Illustration by Rui Tenreiro Do you know the fairytales “Rumpelsiltskin” and “Clever Gretchen”? They have one thing in common: they teach us to be nasty, cunning and dishonest, if they teach.…
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This post was originally written on 7th July, 2009. Part of this post is quoted in the article “Persistent Identifiers: the ‘URN Granular’ Project of the German National Library and the University and State Library Halle” [PDF] My poem “Covers and Spines” was…
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This post was originally written on 20th May, 2010 Lorrie Moore Today, Paris Review tweeted a quote by the short-story writer Lorrie Moore: “If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story.” I agree with…
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This post was originally written on 1st September 2010. Reading the Atlantic today, I came across the controversy about Dior’s latest advertising campaign — “Shanghai Dreamers”. Produced by the Chinese artist Quentin Shih, the images show striking white women amidst…
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Pictured: Wheatfield with Crows by Vincent Van Gogh Dear ________,We are very sorry to inform you that we cannot publish your poem “_______” in Cha, after all; we found out that it was previously featured in ______. In our acceptance email,…
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GASPP: a Gay Anthology of Singapore Poetry and Prose is an anthology of writing by queer Singapore writers, co-edited by Ng Yi-Sheng with Dominic Chua, Jasmine Seah and Irene Oh. The book features works by several Cha contributors including Cyril Wong, Lee Yew…
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This post was originally written on 2nd June, 2010. “I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and who knows that he cannot say to her, “I love you madly”, because…
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. In an article entitled “Language Policy, ‘Asia’s World City’ and Anglophone Hong Kong Writing”, published in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Professor Elaine Ho of the University of Hong Kong has the following to say about Cha: .…
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This post was originally written on 20th January, 2010. – In her blog post “Critique, Cruelty”, Anindita Sengupta comments on the situation of Indian English poetry: [T]he world of Indian English poetry is so small and incestuous. Nobody wants to…
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