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The June 2010 issue of Asiatic is now live. Read Eddie Tay’s review of Writing Singapore: An Historical Anthology of Singapore Literature pdf, Agnes Lam’s review of Tumasik: Contemporary Writing from Singapore pdf (edited by Alvin Pang), and a review…
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Po Chu-I (白居易), poet from the Tang Dynasty A Message to Po Chu-I–W.S. Merwin – In that tenth winter of your exilethe cold never letting go of youand your hunger aching inside youday and night while you heard the voicesout…
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Picture from here The Urbanized Villages in the South Jiangsu Province–Xu Ming-de, translated from the Chinese by Ziqing Zhang –– There are no longer bird’s nests in sparse treesnor any smoke rising from kitchen chimneys aroundthe tree branches in the…
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Cha contributor Marco Yan has a new poem, “Fishing by the City Ferry Pier”, published in the new issue of Foundling Review. Read the poem here. Remember to read Marco’s note on the piece as well! – –Marco Yan’s fiction…
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Picture from here Nine Million Bicycles–Mike Batt[Listen to the song here.]– There are nine million bicycles in BeijingThat’s a fact,It’s a thing we can’t denyLike the fact that I will love you till I die. We are twelve billion light…
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Call for Submissions:First Peoples, Plural. Drunken Boat is now accepting submissions for its “First Peoples, Plural” folio, to debut in issue #13 this winter. We will be considering poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, visual art, sound art, video art, and…
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Picture from here Empress for a Month –Agnes Lam – –Did you know,our Empress Dowager,when you were insistingon taking fundsfrom the national treasurymeant for the protection of the peopleto build the Summer Palacefor your personal treasurethat one daythe fruits of…
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– – – Nicole Wong has a new piece of flash fiction, titled “Memories of Hamburg”, published in slingshot litareview: “I came to know your country of castles on square streets between rivers into the haunted night as you speak,…
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Picture from here Sichuan, May 2008 —Eddie Tay What is an earthquake? What makes a flower grow:children in a school and then houses crumple – when houses crumple, one cannot be angry没有欢乐That man on evening news with the dirty T-shirt,the…
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Picture from the Black Heart Magazine – Congratulations to Gillian Sze, Cha‘s former guest editor and regular contributor, on being named one of the top five emerging writers under forty by Black Heart Magazine! Learn more about the five writers…
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Picture from here TIANANMEN by James Fenton . . . Tiananmen Is broad and clean And you can’t tell Where the dead have been And you can’t tell What happened then And you can’t speak Of Tiananmen. . . You…
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Two short poems by Cha contributor Jennifer Wong, “Canary Wharf” and “Regent’s Park”, are now published on the Manchester Lit List website. Read them here. – – Jennifer Wong’s poem “Companions” was published in issue #5 of Cha and discussed here. She has…
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– –– – May 2010Ludwig 4Cahier internazionale di PoesiaIn questo numero poesie di:– Mariela Griffor (Cile/USA), traduzione di Eliana D. Langiu– Tammy Ho Lai-Ming (Hong Kong), traduzione di Tiziano Fratus – Arthur Bidegain (Francia), traduzione di Michela Orio– Robin Czarniack…
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Wena Poon’s new novel Alex y Robert (Salt Publishing) is now published. – Description/annotation: In 1959, two famous Spanish matadors who were best friends, died. Alex y Robert is the witty, modern fable of their grandchildren: Alejandra, a young American…
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Not a Muse: The Inner Lives of Women, a World Poetry Anthology, published by Haven Books and edited by Cha contributors Viki Holmes and Kate Rogers, is reviewed in San Francisco Book Review. Read the full article here. – The…
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Lit Up Singapore 2010: Emerging Writers and Performers Festival is only a week away (9-18, July) and Cha contributor Ng Yi-Sheng will be there. More about Lit Up Singapore here. – Ng Yi-Sheng’s poetry has been published in issue #8…
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– Cha is mentioned in the CNN article titled “The Evolution of English Literature in Hong Kong” by journalist Christopher DeWolf (10 March, 2010): ‘[M]agazines and journals like Asian Cha and Muse, both launched in 2007, offer writers new oulets…
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Iris A. Law’s poem “Pandemic” (p. 18) is published in Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies. Download the PDF of the issue here. – Iris A. Law’s poetry has been published in Issue #7 of Cha. Her “Circumnavigation” was selected…
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Cover: Enikö Gömöri Sushma Joshi’s story “The Promised Land” is now published in Itch. Read it here. – Sushma Joshi’s fiction has been published in issue #3 of Cha.
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Sushma Joshi’s new story “Tom’s Diner” is now published in Cerise Press. Read it here. – Sushma Joshi’s fiction has been published in issue #3 of Cha.
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Issue Forty Two of Concelebratory Shoehorn Review (edited by Maurice Oliver) is now online. Read poetry by Robin Ekiss, Frank X Walker, Dobby Gibson, Emmy Perez, Diana Der-Hovanessian, Julie Babcock, Carey Salerno, and Dan Nowak. Also included in this issue…
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Picture from Gillian’s blog – Gillian Sze has new works published in Two Review (2 poems: “Roses” and “Route 536), Conclave: A Journal of Character, Issue 2, 2009-2010 (3 prose poems: “Thumbelina”, “Sensible Elsie” and “Rapunzel”) and Matrix, Summer 2010…
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Please note that we are no longer accepting submissions for “The China Issue”. We are, however, accepting works for the Fourth Anniversary Issue. See here. [Read the Chinese versions here or download the English call PDF here.] Cha: An Asian Literary…
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Experience home here.– Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile. Roberutsu’s artwork was published in issue #10 of Cha. – –
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Cha contributor Wena Poon will be performing at the London Literature Festival from her new novel, Alex y Robert, which is about the American granddaughter of a famous Spanish bullfighter who returns to Spain to become a matador. More information…
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– Cha contributors Arthur Leung, Agnes Lam and Viki Holmes will be performing at the 8th Hong Kong Literature Festival. They will read their favourite poems and share their writing experience. Date: 8 July 2010 (Thu)Time: 6:00-7:30pmVenue: Activity Room 1,…
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Sridala Swami’s “Dancing to Political Songs” is published in the Spring 2010 issue of DesiLit Magazine and her new poem “Daybreak” is featured in the newspaper, Mint.–Sridala Swami‘s poetry was published in issue #3 of Cha. ––
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