• – Dena Rash Guzman’s poem “An Itch Somewhere” is now publiehd in Ink Node. Read the poem here. – Dena Rash Guzman’s poetry was published in Issue #15 of Cha. ––

  • – Four poems by Ivy Alvarez, “The Farmer’s Wife”, “With This Ring”, “Stolen” and “Uncle”, are now published in the February 2012 issue of Eye Socket Journal: A Monthly E-Zine. Read Ivy’s poems here. – Read Ivy Alvarez’s Cha profile.…

  • Todd Swift is amongst the writers featured in the “Given That the British Like Sex” issue of Cursive Script Podcasts. Listen to this programme here and here.  – Todd Swift’s poems were published in issue #2, issue #3 and issue #11 of Cha. –

  • Listen to Greg Santos read the poems “Sick as Sieves” and “This Poem Wants You to Trust It”, both from his new chapbook, Tweet Tweet Tweet (Corrupt Press, 2011), here. Greg Santos’s poem “Siem Reap, Cambodia” was published in issue #10 of Cha…

  • –Read Greg Santos’s “Let’s Be Honest Here” in Let People Poems. Greg Santos’s poem “Siem Reap, Cambodia” was published in issue #10 of Cha and discussed here.

  • We have now selected the twelve short-listed poems for the “Encountering” poetry contest. The finalists will be announced on Wednesday 15 February. || “Reunion” by Aditi Rao || “On Encountering Jean-Claude Van Damn” by Andrew Barker || “Aporia” by Arlene Yandug || “Two Girls Very Small” by Daniel A. Nicholls…

  • Thank you to everyone who has submitted work to Cha: An Asian Literary Journal‘s “Encountering” poetry contest. Judges Arthur Leung and Tammy Ho have now selected the following twenty long-listed poems. The short list will be released on Friday 10 February…

  • – Bob Bradshaw’s new poem “Amelia was Crying a River” is now published in the February 2012 issue of Lily, a monthly literary review.–See Bob Bradshaw’s Cha profile. –

  • – – “I make notes on stray bits of paper which I then forget in the most unlikely places, in books, under ornaments and in my pockets and on the back of advertisements.” -James Joyce, in a letter to Claud…

  • – Marc Vincenz’s powerful poem “For the Shadow Council,” is now published in Exquisite Corpse. The poem opens with the following lines: ‘history has no future   it’s more testament than tenacity  / more tenement than transience’. Read Marc Vincenz’s Cha profile.–