• Difficult language — some thoughts

    This post was originally written on 15th April, 2009. Judith Butler Judith Butler‘s prose style has often been criticised as ‘hard’ and unnecessarily perplexing. To some frustrated scholars, her thoughts must be very muddled and therefore can only be translated into…

  • Launch of Eddie Tay’s The Mental Life of Cities at Poetry OutLoud

    Venue: Fringe Club Date: 3 Nov 2010 (Wed) Time: 8pm Akin Jeje will MC – if you’d like to read in the open mic section, please email us at poetryoutloud@gmail.com About The Mental Life of Cities This collection is a meditation on…

  • How honest are you in your diary?

    This post was originally written on 18th April, 2009. Today, the webmaster told me a story from Greg Egan‘s Axiomatic. The story, “The Hundred Light-Year Diary”, is about a future invention that allows people to send messages to themselves from…

  • Baffling

    Because we do not have recordings uploaded on the Cha website, we are unsure of what this reader is talking about. Perhaps other editors have received a similar message? The email was addressed to a particular member of the Cha editorial team.…

  • J. A. Tyler in decomP magazinE

    J. A. Tyler’s “Variations of a Brother War (Mother Triptych)” is now published in the November 2010 issue of decomP magazinE. Read the ‘triptych’ here. – – J. A. Tyler’s fiction was published in issue #1 of Cha. – –

  • Jee Leong Koh in at Length

    Jee Leong Koh’s “A Lover’s Recourse”, a sequence of 49 ghazals, is now published in at Length.  ––Jee Leong Koh’s poetry was published in issue #6 of Cha.––

  • Concelebratory Shoehorn Review 46

    Issue Forty Six of Concelebratory Shoehorn Review (editor: Maurice Oliver) is now online. Read poetry by Felino A. Soriano, J.V. Foerster, Joy Helsing, Amber Nelson, John Hoppenthaler, Georgia Ann Banks-Martin, Babara Jane Reyes, and Guy Kettlehack. Also included in this…

  • Dark Sky Magazine interviews Ocean Vuong

    Ocean Vuong is interviewed by Brad Green at Dark Sky Magazine. Read the interview here. – – Ocean Vuong’s poem “Paramour” was published in issue#10 of Cha; the poem has been nominated for inclusion in Best of the Net Anthology 2010. – –

  • Quote of the day — Amitav Ghosh

    “One thing we should be aware of: in this age of globalisation, there’s this idea that English is becoming more and more expansive. In fact, much the opposite is happening: in the 19th century, English was much wider, more accepting…

    Quote of the day — Amitav Ghosh

  • Cha contributors in Mascara Literary Review

    Several Cha contributors have new works published in the latest issue (October 2010) of Mascara Literary Review. Read Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s three poems “Rendez-vous at Pont des Arts”, “Fragile” and “My Grandmother Waters the Moon”; Cyril Wong’s three poems “School Bus”,…