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02 · The Archive
Poetry
Poems of myth, migration, science, and the strange.
104 works
2016–2022
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Issue 1 · Inaugural Issue
— March 2016
Poets Respond: The Nation Wants to Know
Zainab Ummer Farook
Issue 1
Two Poems
Shweta Narayan
Issue 1
Two Poems
Shikha Malaviya
Issue 1
Two Poems
Rohan Chhetri
Issue 1
Shadowskin
Shveta Thakrar
Issue 1
Wolfish Woman
Ajapa Sharma
Issue 1
Issue 2 · Subcontinental Speculations
— April 2016
The Epilogue of Flight 714
Arjun Rajendran
Issue 2
Two Poems
Arkady Martine
Issue 2
Two Poems
Seo-Young Chu
Issue 2
Bharat Iyer: Bug Season
Bharat Iyer
Issue 2
Priya Sarukkai Chabria: Rai Parveen Mahal, Orchha
Priya Sarukkai Chabria
Issue 2
Issue 3 · Futures Across Borders
— May 2016
Two Poems
Seth Jani
Issue 3
Two Poems
Vinita Agrawal
Issue 3
"The Genius"
Sara Backer
Issue 3
Two Poems
A.J. Odasso
Issue 3
"The Giftie"
John W. Sexton
Issue 3
Issue 4 · Monsoon Cosmologies
— June 2016
Saima Afreen: Song for a Watch Repairer
Saima Afreen
Issue 4
Mark A. Fisher: Mazenderan
Mark A. Fisher
Issue 4
Josh Brown: Apocalypse Later
Josh Brown
Issue 4
Melissa Frederick: Moving the Earth
Melissa Frederick
Issue 4
Naru Dames Sundar: Moirae
Naru Dames Sundar
Issue 4
Issue 5-6 · The Asian SF Double Issue
— July/August 2016
Shobhana Kumar: Lessons in Mango Picking
Shobhana Kumar
Issue 5-6
Seo-Young Chu: Life 38
Seo-Young Chu
Issue 5-6
Jennifer Crow: Fallen to Witches
Jennifer Crow
Issue 5-6
B. Clifford: An Elegy
B Clifford
Issue 5-6
Brendan McBreen: where are you, / Nessie?
Brendan McBreen
Issue 5-6
Ken Poyner: Puppy Love
Ken Poyner
Issue 5-6
Ajapa Sharma – Calcutta: An Ode to an Unborn Life
Ajapa Sharma
Issue 5-6
Issue 7 · Cosmic Sociology
— January–March 2017
The Gifts
Sandi Leibowitz
Issue 7
The Saint Of Small Things, Weeping
Margaret Wack
Issue 7
Life by the river
Jamie Beth Samdahl
Issue 7
The Process
Sonya Taaffe
Issue 7
The Study
Mari Ness
Issue 7
Issue 8 · Visual Arts Special
— May 2017
The Santa Monica Prophecies: A Collaborative Triptych
Layla Al-Bedawi, Holly Lyn Walrath & Stufflebeam
Issue 8
Instructions for Astronauts
Michael Janairo
Issue 8
Three Poems
Ingrid Jendrzejewski
Issue 8
Two Visual Poems
Holly Lyn Walrath
Issue 8
family (a form somehow must)
G. Garfinkle
Issue 8
How to build a woman, sodden flowered and strong
Hester J. Rook
Issue 8
Issue 9 · New Cartographies
— September 2017
Four Moons
John Philp Johnson
Issue 9
Cup of Tea
Salik Shah & Naru Dames Sundar
Issue 9
Her Chemo Friend Explains Capricorn
Laura Page
Issue 9
Pollen
Rose Lemberg
Issue 9
Surreal Bucket List #3
Bruce Boston
Issue 9
When We Were Young
Steve Simpson
Issue 9
Traces
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Issue 9
Alternate Genders
Mary Soon Lee
Issue 9
Chronology Of Items Found On The Moon
Mary Soon Lee
Issue 9
Boatman
Mary Soon Lee
Issue 9
What Kills A Man
Bryan Thao Worra
Issue 9
An Archaeology of Snow Forts
Bryan Thao Worra
Issue 9
Issue 10 · Tenth Milestone Edition
— September 2018
YUAN: the Origin of a Family Name
Yuan Changming
Issue 10
Life and Death on the Rocks
Alexandria Baisden
Issue 10
New Spring
FJBergmann
Issue 10
nakajiru
D.A. Xiaolin Spires
Issue 10
Shoegaze + Suburbia
Decamora
Issue 10
The world is a stage, and the script must change
Julie Novakova
Issue 10
Ocean’s Child
Sarah Ang
Issue 10
Issue 11 · Borderline Realities
— December 2018
Joining the Navy
Phoebe Low
Issue 11
Threads of Honor
Phoebe Low
Issue 11
tetrahedral edifices of a sticky rice realm
D.A. Xiaolin Spires
Issue 11
The Moth Spectacular
A. Gardner
Issue 11
How To Lie About SN 2213-1745
Mary Soon Lee
Issue 11
churning of milky oceans
Uma Menon
Issue 11
Steel Dust
Qurat
Issue 11
Soothsayer Blues
Qurat
Issue 11
Issue 12 · Diaspora Currents
— April 2019
Tethered and Tied
Holly Day
Issue 12
Lesson Plan
Holly Day
Issue 12
Talking in Circles
Holly Day
Issue 12
Social Media Manticore
May Chong
Issue 12
The Satyr's Acolyte
Abergrand
Issue 12
Mud Dauber Wasp Nest
Keeler
Issue 12
Super Mario; Or, Everything I Needed to Learn About Relationships
Michael T. Smith
Issue 12
Kirby; Or Everything I Needed to Know About Consumption
Michael T. Smith
Issue 12
Vestiges of you
Quynh
Issue 12
Glimmerglimpse
Logan
Issue 12
Electrocologies
Logan
Issue 12
Litmus
S. G. Deshpande & Narendrap
Issue 12
The Shuttle Took Off / और यान उड़ गया
A. Dubey & Kshama Gautam
Issue 12
Issue 13 · Planetary Entanglements
— September 2019
Pilot Narratives
A. Gardner
Issue 13
Soul Lanterns
A. Gardner
Issue 13
Odysseus Grins at Fate and the Gods
A. Gardner
Issue 13
How to Question Asteroid 16 Psyche
Mary Soon Lee
Issue 13
Patroclus
Mary Soon Lee
Issue 13
Afterwards
Mari Ness
Issue 13
Rose Glasses over Mercury Mirrors
Lynne Sargent
Issue 13
Ghost Apples
M. W. Mani
Issue 13
Issue 14 · The Solitary Sky
— June 2020
Still Life
Pia Bhatia
Issue 14
Corvid Dreams
Jennifer Crow
Issue 14
Mare Anguis
Josh Pearce
Issue 14
Different Boxes
Rachel Rodman
Issue 14
cinderella
Archita Mittra
Issue 14
uncas
Kate Shannon
Issue 14
Issue 15 · Re-Emergence
— December 2020
Colonial
Sonya Taaffe
Issue 15
Harvest
Sandi Leibowitz
Issue 15
We’re Refugees Who Found Love Searching for Atlantis
Holly Lyn Walrath & Marco Raimondo
Issue 15
Ceramics
Anne Carly Abad
Issue 15
The Echo Chamber
David Memmott
Issue 15
Packing Tips for Time Travelers
Michael Janairo
Issue 15
Issue 16 · Planet Democracy
— July 2022
Brighter Than the Last
J. D. Harlock
Issue 16
Horsemen
Mari Ness
Issue 16
Paradise of the Abyss
Angela Acosta
Issue 16
School of Continuing Education: Excerpt of the Course Catalog
Florence Lenaers
Issue 16
In My Utopias
Gretchen Rockwell
Issue 16