Category: Meet 12
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Eddie Tay is the Reviews Editor of Cha and has previously contributed poetry (“Whose Woods These Are”) and reviews to the journal. In the September 2010 issue, we are very delighted to have the opportunity to feature four poems from…
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Cha does not normally reprint works (apart from the “Lost Teas” section). So, when we do republish a piece, it has to be very good. The September 2010 issue will feature Robert Raymer‘s short story “On Fridays” from his collection…
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Consulting Editor Reid Mitchell will review two poetry collections in the September 2010 issue of Cha: Steven Schroeder’s A Dim Sum of the Day Before and Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s Water the Moon. Apart from Steven’s “I Can Smell Roads”, we will also…
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Steven Schroeder, who told us he’s already expecting the first snow in Chicago, has appeared in Cha several times. His poems “Guidebook Says” and “A Water Planet” were published in the first anniversary issue (“Guidebook Says” was also discussed on…
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Clockwise from the top left:Sarah Brennan, Adeline Foo, Margaret Lim and Emily Lim. In the September 2010 issue of Cha, we will be publishing essays by four children’s picture book authors: Sarah Brennan, Adeline Foo, Emily Lim and Margaret Lim.…
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David William Hill’s “Stone Fruit”, which will be published in the September 2010 issue of Cha, is a beautiful prose poem. Although short, it provides the reader with a powerful sense of time and place. We read it again and…
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Elizabeth Weinberg’s beautifully written and observed “The Earth that Stands Before Us” is one of the three short stories featured in the forthcoming issue of Cha. The three-part piece, which is a story of handing on tradition to a younger…
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Earlier, we unveiled the beautiful cover of our September 2010 issue here. Apart from “Wall in Namdaemun Market, Seoul”, we will also be publishing four other photographs (three from Singapore and one from China) by Alvin, whose poems were published…
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‘Potent references’ was the comment guest editor Royston Tester gave to Shirley Lee’s poem “Letter to a Prominent Korean Man And to You”, which will be published in the September 2010 issue of Cha. Royston was right: potent references indeed.…
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In Rumjhum Biswas’s poem “Bones”, which will be published in the September 2010 issue of Cha, the persona tells us about her mother’s small bones — ‘still warm and sticky / from [her] smoldering pyre’. This is, then, a poem…
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Congratulations to Cha contributor Jennifer Wong; her poetry collection is longlisted for the Proverse Prize 2010. More information about the prize here. – Jennifer’s poem “Companions” was published in the first anniversary issue of Cha and nominated for inclusion in…
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Cha is a big fan of Mary Lee. We have previously published her photography three times: “Tibet” in Issue 1, “Teipei” in Issue 2 and “Japan” in Issue 4. Recently, Mary directed an important and meaningful Hong Kong photobook project…
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Helle Annette Slutz’s poem “Another City Which You Leave” was the first poem accepted for publication in the September 2010 issue of Cha. It begins with a quote from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities: For those who pass it without entering,…
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Inara Cedrins edited the Chinese Feature for Drunken Boat in 2006 and her poems “Wintering” and “Towards Borders” were published in the February 2009 issue of Cha. In the September 2010 issue, we are offered the opportunity to publish Inara’s…
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“Harvest” and “After Ten Years In America, My Grandmother Decides to Celebrate Tet”, two strong, vivid and memorable poems by Kim-An Lieberman, will be featured in the September 2010 issue of Cha. “Harvest” contains an image of a girl collecting…
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Marco Yan is an important writer for Cha: his short story “Market Guy” appeared in our début edition. We are very delighted to say that his new poem “Remembrance” will be featured in the September 2010 issue. All three editors…
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Do you remember Mark Stringer’s “City Lantern”, which was published in the February 2008 issue of Cha? The photograph was subsequently reprinted in Issue 22 of BluePrintReview, on the editor Dorothee Lang’s request. In the grainy image, the lonely lantern…
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If your lover wants to be so close to you, so close, closer than your skin, how will you respond? Annie Zaidi’s poem “Diaphragm”, which will be published in the September 2010 issue of Cha, explores this topic, and the…
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It was love at first read. We will be publishing Phill Provance’s “St. Petersburg Has Many Churches”, which will also appear in Danse Macabre, in the September 2010 issue of Cha. Our guest editor commented, ‘the playfulness of the poem…
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Photo of Yip © Benny Thong Fact 1: Yip Wai Shan knows us very well. Fact 2: Her picture (above) is awesome. Fact 3: Her photography sequence “Dry” will appear in the September 2010 Issue of Cha. Fact 4: These…
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