• Proud exhibition

    In May 2008, Florence Bamberger, a then second-year illustration student from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, contacted me and said she would like to illustrate some of my poems for her final-year project. In the…

  • Branch is calling for submissions

    Branch Magazine, edited by Cha contributors Gillian Sze and Roberutsu, is calling for submissions for its third issue, themed “Hunger”. More information here. – –

  • Phoebe Tsang’s Contents of a Mermaid Purse is on the 2010 ReLit Award longlist

    Congratulations to Phoebe Tsang! Her collection Contents of a Mermaid Purse, published by Tightrope Books, is on the 2010 ReLit Award (category: Poetry). Good luck, dear! We are very happy for you! – A review of Contents of a Mermaid…

  • Rocco de Giacomo’s Ten Thousand Miles Between Us is on the 2010 ReLit Award longlist

    Congratulations to Rocco de Giacomo! His Ten Thousand Miles Between Us, published by Quattro, is on the 2010 ReLit Award longlist (category: Novel). We wish you the best of luck! – Ten Thousand Miles Between Us was reviewed in Issue…

  • Gillian Sze’s Fish Bones is on the 2010 ReLit Award longlist

    Congratulations to Gillian Sze! Her collection Fish Bones, published by DC Books, is on the 2010 ReLit Award longlist (category: Poetry). We look forward to more great news. Good luck! – One of the poems in Fish Bones, “To John…

  • Meet Mark Stringer

    Do you remember Mark Stringer’s “City Lantern”, which was published in the February 2008 issue of Cha? The photograph was subsequently reprinted in Issue 22 of BluePrintReview, on the editor Dorothee Lang’s request. In the grainy image, the lonely lantern…

  • Nicholas Y.B. Wong Wins Oblongata Contest #3

    Nicholas Y.B. Wong’s poem “All About My Mother”, which begins with the lines ‘She sprawled in the bed, / a corpse with a beating heart, / circled by four other men. Or five?’, wins The Medulla Review‘s third Oblongata Contest.…

  • Divya Rajan and Accents

    Divya Rajan’s poem “Then” will be read by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer of Accents Publishing on her radio show Accents – A Radio Show for Literature, Art and Culture on WRFL, 88.1 FM, Lexington, Kentucky, this Friday (2-3 pm). The show is…

  • Meet Annie Zaidi

    If your lover wants to be so close to you, so close, closer than your skin, how will you respond? Annie Zaidi’s poem “Diaphragm”, which will be published in the September 2010 issue of Cha, explores this topic, and the…

  • Craig Santos Perez in The Offending Adam

    Craig Santos Perez has a few new poems published in The Offending Adam. Read them here. – – Craig Santos Perez’s review was been published in issue #9 of Cha. – –