• W.F. Lantry in Up the Staircase

    – W.F. Lantry’s poem “Dawn” is now published in the fourteenth issue of Up the Staircase. Read it here. – – W.F. Lantry’s poetry was published in Issue #12 and Issue #14 of Cha.  ––

  • Three ways to deal with an apocalypse

    Morning after the Flood  1928 From Carol Jacobs’s “Playing Jane Campion’s Piano: Politically” (1994): A Catholic priest, a Protestant minister, and a rabbi were walking along the beach together when a great angel with diaphanous wings approached them. He announced an apocalypse near at hand, telling them of…

  • Whispers on the Wind – A Reading of Russell C. Leong’s "Dreams and Dust"

    ––Guest post by reader Charles Kress. Kuan Yin What of the past that whispersSuch winds blow our words awayWhere have they goneMust we always start anewWill dead voices never cease – from “Blood Secrets” —–– Not long ago I wrote…

  • Everything is Illuminated

    Jonathan Safran Foer wrote his first novel Everything is Illuminated  (2002) when he was only 25.Some quotes from the book: 1. But first I am burdened to recite my good appearance. p. 3 2. … because unless I do not want…

  • Best of the Net 2011 Nominations

    ––We are happy to announce that the following pieces of work have been nominated by Cha for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2011, published by Sundress. Congratulations to these writers and good luck! –– –Poetry– =W.F. Lantry, “Rainbow Bridge”…

  • The Best Short Writing in the World 2011

    Fleeting Magazine has teamed up with Stack to find the best short writing in the world. They are looking for short stories (no more than 1500 words) and poetry (up to 40 lines). They are only interested in writing that…

  • Royston Tester in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore

    – Royston Tester’s short story “A Beijing Minute” is now published in the July 2011 issue of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. Read it here. A review of Jee Leong Koh’s Seven Studies for a Self Portrait by Nicholas Liu is…

  • Marc Vincenz in October Babies

    – Marc Vincenz’s poem “Barcelona B a c k h a n d”, previously published in Danse Macabre, is now up at October Babies. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. – –

  • "The Woman" by Robert Creeley

    – – ––The Woman…………………………..by Robert Creeley I have neverclearly given to youthe associationsyou have for me, you with suchdivided presence my dreamdoes not showyou. I do not dream. I have compoundedthese sensations, theaccumulation of the thingsleft me by you. Always…

  • Marc Vincenz and Mary-Jane Newton in THIS Literary Magazine

    – Read Marc Vincenz’s new poems “star twisted,” and “Downriver” and Mary-Jane Newton’s poems “You, Becoming”, “Enter and Name” and “How To Be Victorious” in the July/August 2011 issue of THIS Literary Magazine. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue…