This list is part of the celebration of the tenth anniversary of The Margins, which highlights portions of the magazine’s archive organized around a theme.

The essence of queerness is desire: desire for futures that hold us, futures that want us. What is queerness but futurity? A constant reach forward, a redefining of bounds, a call back to our ancestors, and a rebuilding of our histories. Through poetry, storytelling, and conversation, we shape cathedrals from desire, worlds from grief, universes from wild loving, spanning the quotidian to the hedonistic.

Read the full list below.

“Straddling Convention: The Erotic in Asian American Poetry” edited by Ocean Vuong (2013)

“Derma and Ichor” by Paul Tran (2015)

“Until the Red Runs Out” by Muriel Leung (2015)

“This Is Not a Poem About My Mother” by Sreshtha Sen (2017)

“Writing the Families We Want: An Interview with Chen Chen” by Yanyi (2017)

“narrowed lust” by Inam Kang (2018)

“Search History” by Eugene Lim (2018)

“Fruits of the Future” by Ly Thuy Nguyen (2019) 

“Nasi Kang Kang” by Marylyn Tan (2019)

“Shokushu Goukan for the Cyborg Soul” by Franny Choi (2019)

“fable” by Sheena Raza Faisal (2020)

“Violence of Exclusion, Bursts of Community: Queer Women’s Nightlife, Japanese American Incarceration, and Disappearing Spaces” by Emily Hashimoto (2021)

“What Are You Looking At? Striking a Pose in Taiwan: The Past and Future of Queer Speculation” by Ta-wei Chi 紀大偉, Hsin-Hui Lin 林新惠, and Ariel Chu (2021)

“Hasten Your Burials” by Mariam Bazeed (2021) 

“erotic things” by Rajiv Mohabir (2022)

Pieces from top to bottom, left to right:

1. “Straddling Convention: The Erotic in Asian American Poetry”
   edited by Ocean Vuong with poems by Jee Leong Koh, Victoria Chang, Joseph O. Legaspi, David Mura, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Timothy Liu, and Cathy Linh Che (2013)
   
   
2. “Derma and Ichor”
   by Paul Tran (2015)
   
   
3. “Until the Red Runs Out”
   by Muriel Leung (2015)
   
   
4. “This Is Not a Poem About My Mother”
   by Sreshtha Sen (2017)
   
   
5. “Writing the Families We Want: An Interview with Chen Chen”
   by Yanyi (2017)
   
   
6. “narrowed lust”
   by Inam Kang (2018)
   
   
7. “Search History”
   by Eugene Lim (2018)
   
   
8. “Fruits of the Future”
   by Ly Thuy Nguyen (2019) 
   
   
9. “Nasi Kang Kang”
   by Marylyn Tan (2019)
   
   
10. “Shokushu Goukan for the Cyborg Soul”
    by Franny Choi (2019)
    
    
11. “fable”
    by Sheena Raza Faisal (2020)
    
    
12. “Violence of Exclusion, Bursts of Community: Queer Women’s Nightlife, Japanese American Incarceration, and Disappearing Spaces”
    by Emily Hashimoto (2021)
    
    
13. What Are You Looking At? Striking a Pose in Taiwan: The Past and Future of Queer Speculation
    by Ta-wei Chi 紀大偉, Hsin-Hui Lin 林新惠, and Ariel Chu (2021)
    
    
14. “Hasten Your Burials”
    by Mariam Bazeed (2021) 
    
    
15. “erotic things”
    by Rajiv Mohabir (2022)