• Fine Tea Competition 2011

    Artist: Annysa Ng  Description: Fine Tea articles may be on any poems, stories or artwork/photography featured in the history of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. To see the kind of analyses we have published, please visit http://finecha.wordpress.com. However, you do not…

  • Marc Vincenz in Danse Macabre

    –– Marc Vincenz’s poem “King Georgy and the Golden Helicopter” is now published in Danse Macabre. Visit this page and scroll down. – Marc Vincenz’s poetry was published in Issue 10 of Cha. ––

  • Changming Yuan in Radius

    – Three poems by Changming Yuan, “Another Difference”, “Worldly Affairs (1): The Bare Truth about USA” and “Worldly Affairs (6): Today’s Special” are now published in Radius: From the Centre to the Edge. Radius is an online literary journal dedicated…

  • Kristine Ong Muslim in Eye to the Telescope

    – Kristine Ong Muslim’s poem sequence “The Strangers” (which contains fifteen strangers – fifteen poems) is now published in Eye to the Telescope. The editor notes: Kristine Ong Muslim’s sequence of poems that, taken together, begin to paint a disturbing…

  • Nicholas Y. B. Wong in Press 1

    – Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s humorous and thought-provoking poem “25 Anatomical Facts about Poets” is now published in the latest issue of Press 1. Read the piece here. – See Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha profile. – –

  • What are the most poignant encounters with music?

    …and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee . – Donne In the review article “Hubbub”, Nicholas Spice answers: [T]he most poignant encounters with music are inadvertent and unplanned. Church bells heard across the fields…

  • Remembering and forgetting

    We can only see the Sistine Chapel for the first time once, and we can never be surprised twice by the outcome of a poem or a novel, the unexpected modulations of a piece of Haydn or the wild ramifications…

  • Wine and epilogues

    A Scene from “As You Like It” by Walter Howell Deverell If it be true that good wine needsno bush, ’tis true that a good play needs noepilogue; yet to good wine they do use good bushes,and good plays prove the…

  • Ocean Vuong in Vinyl Poetry

    – Ocean Vuong’s poem “Self-Portrait as Jeffrey Dahmer” is now published in Vol. 3 of Vinyl Poetry. Dahmer was ‘a notorious serial killer and cannibal’. – – Ocean Vuong’s poem “Paramour” was published in issue#10 of Cha; the poem has been nominated…

  • Nicholas Y. B. Wong joins Drunken Boat

    – Nicholas Y.B. Wong has joined the Drunken Boat team as a Poetry Reader. See here for more information.  – See Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s Cha profile. ––