• Royston Tester’s Fatty Goes to China

    – Cha‘s Associate Editor Royston Tester‘s new book Fatty Goes to China (Tightrope Books) will be launched in Toronto, Canada, on 1 May 2012. The cover artist is Zhang Xiaogang. Cha has the privilege to feature the title story of the collection,…

  • Marc Vincenz in October Babies

    – Marc Vincenz’s poem “[Earth-Shaving]” is now up at October Babies. The poem was previously published in TRUCK. – Read Marc Vincenz’s Cha profile. –

  • On black and white

    In her Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and The Imagination 1830-1880, Isobel Armstrong has this wonderful reflection on ‘black’ and ‘white’: White paper in full moonlight is darker than black satin in daylight, or a dark object with the sun shining…

  • Anna Yin in China Daily

    – An interview with Anna Yin is now available in China Daily. In the interview, Anna says, “After all, only poetry can help me find inner peace. Through writing, I can feel every moment of my life. That makes me…

  • W.F. Lantry in a Language of the Birds anthology

    W.F. Lantry‘s poem “Gacela of the Heron’s Dream” is included in a Language of the Birds anthology in Uzbekistan. The poem was translated into Uzbek. You can read the poem in both English and Uzbek here.–Read W.F. Lantry’s Cha profile –

  • Gillian Sze in The Rusty Tonque

    Four poems by Gillian Sze, “Plotting”, “Kitchen Table”, “Two Minutes in Muar” and “Sowing”, are now published in the second issue of The Rusty Toque.  – Read Gillian Sze’s Cha profile. –

  • Ocean Vuong in THRUSH

    – Ocean Vuong’s poem “Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome” is published in the inaugural issue of THRUSH Poetry Journal. Read it here. – Ocean Vuong’s poem “Paramour” was published in issue#10 of Cha; the poem has been nominated for inclusion in Best of the…

  • Kit Kelen’s Poetry, Consciousness, Community reviewed

    In  Oxford Journals’  The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Nerys Williams reviews Kit Kelen’s Rodopi book Poetry, Consciousness, Community. Williams writes: Kelen skillfully sutures together essays on poetry and writing, ranging from Freud’s hypotheses on day dreaming and Julia Kristeva’s Revolution in…

  • The Great Wave, 180 years on

    By Sam Nallen Copley The Great Wave off Kanagawa  Around 180 years ago, Tokitarō (the birth name of Katsushika Hokusai), an elderly man from Eastern Japan embarked on a new project. His second wife had just passed away, his first having…

  • Kate Rogers’s City of Stairs

    The March 2012 Hong Kong Poetry OutLoud event will be devoted to a book launch: the debut of Canadian poet Kate Rogers’s second collection, City of Stairs, courtesy of Haven Books and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. For this…