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Pictured: Hong Kong Column – Translated (http://facebook.com/hkcolumn) Introduction Cha is seeking entries on the theme “Hong Kong Isn’t Going Anywhere Anytime Soon” in response to the Chinese Government’s White Paper (click here for more information) to be included in a…
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You are invited to submit poems to Desde Hong Kong: poets in conversation with Octavio Paz, a collection in celebration of the centenary of the great Mexican poet, Octavio Paz, who built bridges among cultures, and especially among poets, and whose connections…
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Thank you to all the poets who sent work to Cha‘s “Void” Poetry contest. Judges Daryl Yam and Tammy Ho Lai-Ming have selected the following eight poems as the finalists. Please scroll down to read the poets’ biographies and their…
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Venice, June 2013 ..Meetings with Remarkable Men and Women (Selected) The editorial for the Sixth Anniversary Issue of Cha i. There was a coffee house not too far from the university library (but far enough to deter most students from taking…
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Reconciliation A Cha Poetry contest This contest is run by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. It is for unpublished poems on the theme of “Reconciliation”. ::: UPDATE: Read the winning poems HERE. ::: Judges: Tammy Ho Lai-Ming is a Hong…
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VOID – SHORTLIST A Cha Poetry contest We have now selected the fifteen short-listed poems for Cha‘s “Void” poetry contest. The finalists will be announced when the March 2014 issue of the journal (the belated Sixth Anniversary Issue) goes live. …
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[Click image to enlarge] In Ways of Seeing, John Berger answers: When in love, the sight of the beloved has a completeness which no words and no embrace can match: a completeness which only the act of making love can…
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In Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence (1997), Geoff Dyer answers: I also thought of knocking on the door of our old house, explaining that I was born there, that I lived there until I was eleven,…
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VOID A Cha Poetry contest NEW: Shortlist (Friday 24 January 2014)NEW: Winners announced (Saturday 29 March 2014) This contest is run by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. It is for unpublished poems on the theme of “Void”. Judges: Tammy Ho…
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Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now accepting submissions for “The Ancient Asia Issue,” an edition of the journal devoted exclusively to work from and about Asia before the mid-nineteenth century. From the beginning of the twentieth century, ancient Asia…
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Geoff Dyer When Geoff Dyer was living in Paris, John Berger sent him a package containing four lamb chops, bloody and ‘totally fresh’, through the post. Dyer believed that’s a token to both Berger’s generosity and the marvellous efficiency of the…
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Hula Hooping (First published in Berfrois on 28 February, 2013.) . . “First snowfall of the year, Issy-Les-Moulineaux” by Oliver Farry . I don’t want to be like a fruit that is small, round and has a bland taste. I like being written…
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My friend: Hey, is there any way you could find out if there is a warrant for my arrest in the PRC? Me: Why do you think I have such high penetrating power? I am only an editor of a…
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this editorial was originally posted here | read the fifth anniversary issue of Cha here A Hundred Years of Karma Recently I’ve been riding the bus a lot—three hours a day, more or less. I spend one eighth of my time…
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My webmaster and I were working on the Fifth Anniversary Issue of Cha and out of the blue he asked me: “Tammy, are you an android?” Webmaster: You must be an android. There are subtle clues everywhere! Me: For example?…
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originally posted here. In My Piecemeal Fashion With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple. (Anne Sexton, “Mother and Jack and the Rain”, Collected Poems, p.…
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THE HANDWRITTEN PROJECT Would you like to receive a handwritten card from Cha? Tell us a poem published in the journal that you like (from any of the issues) and we will write out some of its lines on a…
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[click image to enlarge] due out in December 2012. – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for its Fifth Anniversary Issue (Issue # 19). Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration.…
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This is the first version of “Remembering Li, a Tienanmen Activist”, published in Radius. WHOSE TIME IS NEXT? by Tammy Ho(Remembering Li Wangyang, a labour activist.) He is gone.His manner of deathdoes not add up. Who in this nationowns the time?Who has…
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In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins answers: A stable thing is a collection of atoms that is permanent enough or common enough to deserve a name. It may be a unique collection of atoms, such as the Matterhorn, that lasts…
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originally posted here. Pillow Books [1] Things that quicken the heart/give you goose bumps—A Saturday morning latte, sprinkled with nutmeg. A cup of warm red wine infused with cinnamon. The wails of the neighbour’s cat—more human than feline. The alarm…
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[click the image to enlarge] Description: This contest is run by Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. It is for unpublished flash stories in English language on the theme of “Misinterpretation”. Rules: -Each writer can submit up to two pieces (no…
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By Tammy Ho and Jeff Zroback “Not To Be Reproduced (Portrait of Edward James)” (1937/) by Rene Magritte I will do as you ask even though I know that as the Turkish barber is shaving my sideburns with a razor, it…
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Frederic Gable – According to Margaret Drabble in a Guardian article, the last stanza of Lord Byron‘s “Love and Death” contains ‘the greatest split infinitive in literature’. Byron wrote the poem in 1824, shortly before he died. The poem was…
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In her Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and The Imagination 1830-1880, Isobel Armstrong has this wonderful reflection on ‘black’ and ‘white’: White paper in full moonlight is darker than black satin in daylight, or a dark object with the sun shining…
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In The Anatomy of Influence (2011), Harold Bloom reminisces about W.H. Auden: I treasure ruefully some memories of W.H. Auden that go back to the middle 1960s, when he arrived in New Haevn to give a reading of his poems at Ezra…
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