• Marco Yan in Foundling Review

    Cha contributor Marco Yan has a new poem, “Fishing by the City Ferry Pier”, published in the new issue of Foundling Review. Read the poem here. Remember to read Marco’s note on the piece as well! – –Marco Yan’s fiction…

  • Nine Million Bicycles by Mike Batt

    Picture from here Nine Million Bicycles–Mike Batt[Listen to the song here.]– There are nine million bicycles in BeijingThat’s a fact,It’s a thing we can’t denyLike the fact that I will love you till I die. We are twelve billion light…

  • Drunken Boat is calling for submissions: "First Peoples, Plural"

    Call for Submissions:First Peoples, Plural. Drunken Boat is now accepting submissions for its “First Peoples, Plural” folio, to debut in issue #13 this winter. We will be considering poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, visual art, sound art, video art, and…

  • Empress for a Month by Agnes Lam

    Picture from here Empress for a Month –Agnes Lam – –Did you know,our Empress Dowager,when you were insistingon taking fundsfrom the national treasurymeant for the protection of the peopleto build the Summer Palacefor your personal treasurethat one daythe fruits of…

  • Nicolette Wong in slingshot litareview

    – – – Nicole Wong has a new piece of flash fiction, titled “Memories of Hamburg”, published in slingshot litareview: “I came to know your country of castles on square streets between rivers into the haunted night as you speak,…

  • Sichuan, May 2008 by Eddie Tay

    Picture from here Sichuan, May 2008 —Eddie Tay What is an earthquake? What makes a flower grow:children in a school and then houses crumple – when houses crumple, one cannot be angry没有欢乐That man on evening news with the dirty T-shirt,the…

  • Gillian Sze is one of the "Top 5 Emerging Writers Under 40"

    Picture from the Black Heart Magazine – Congratulations to Gillian Sze, Cha‘s former guest editor and regular contributor, on being named one of the top five emerging writers under forty by Black Heart Magazine! Learn more about the five writers…

  • Lantern Review is searching for bloggers

    Learn more about the application process here.

  • “Tiananmen” by James Fenton

    Picture from here TIANANMEN by James Fenton . . . Tiananmen Is broad and clean And you can’t tell Where the dead have been And you can’t tell What happened then And you can’t speak Of Tiananmen. . . You…

  • In Hong Kong: "From Journalism to Poetry: A Talk by James Fenton"

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