A folio of poetry, prose, and hybrid work
February 12, 2026
The Imagined Histories folio, edited by poets Kiran Bath and Megan Pinto, brings together poetry, prose, and hybrid work that plays with the nonlinear, imagined nature of history. As the editors write, “For many of us, history does not arrive as a clean timeline. It arrives as gaps in the record, as names half‑remembered, as stories revised to protect someone else’s shame.” The eleven contributors in this folio reckon with these gaps, and, as Pinto and Bath write, “treat imagination as a way of looking at the artifacts and silences we have inherited and writing into the spaces between them.”
Artwork by Devyn Mañibo accompanies each of the pieces.
“Editors’ Note”
By Kiran Bath and Megan Pinto
“Then the Lake Shifts”
By Alycia Pirmohamed
“a pre-golden war garden”
By Alissa Tu
“Carry On”
By Jordan Ahmed
“The Burning of Macabebe”
By JoAnn Balingit
“राई का दाना | The Seed of the Mustard”
By Monika Kumar, translated from Hindi by Gauri Awasthi
“Erem and the House of Heritage”
By niyati
“Lewat Rotterdam Tengah Malam | Passing Through Rotterdam On a Night Train”
By Ni Made Purnama Sari, translated from Indonesian by Norman Erikson Pasaribu
“Five Decades Dreaming in Diaspora”
By Nyingv Jae Saechao
“Three Poems by Suvendrini Lena”
By Suvendrini Lena
“A Translation (1975)”
By Catherine Chen
“Two Poems by Susan Nguyen”
By Susan Nguyen
“About the Art”
By Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Devyn Mañibo
