poetry

SELECTED POEMS

• “cinderella”. Mithila Review.
• “virus: a sojourn”. Eye To The Telescope, Issue 33. July, 2019.
• “letter to pluto”, Ink, Sweat, Tears.
• “When Little Red Riding Hood Writes Back”, Thought Catalog
• “Grandma Bruja”. Red Queen Literary Magazine, Issue 3.
• “Losing Teeth”. Eunoia Review.
• “Wonderland, Wilted”,”Monochrome Dream”,”season of rain“. venus mag.
• “Letter to the Mist”. Rising Phoenix Review.
• “Cake Making”. Vagabond City.
• “this is how you remember being a girl”. The Bombay Review.
• “ 2 am insomnia”. Glass Kite Anthology.
• “Cartography of a Broken Town”. Bangalore Review.

POETRY PUBLICATIONS

2020

• “cinderella”. Mithila Review.

“…I like how the piece centers her desire to dance, what that says about her and her desire to be free… The piece looks at what happens to joy when it’s filtered through oppression, through subjugation, through loss and a lack of agency and power… It’s a haunting read, but worth checking out!”
-Charles Payseur (QuickSipReviews)

2019

• “virus: a sojourn”. Eye To The Telescope, Issue 33. July, 2019.
• “letter to pluto”, Ink, Sweat, Tears.

2018

• “mass murder is collateral damage”, “nights like these”. The Literary Yard.
• “durga”, “lakshmi”. Daphne Magazine.
• “Grandma Bruja”, “Red Riding Hood Writes Back”. Her Plumage: An Anthology of Women’s Writings From Quail Bell Magazine. 2019.
  “Archita Mittra’s prose poetry is stark and haunted by family and tradition and the colonial world she lives in”-reviewed at New Southern Fugitives

2017

• “ghost-memories”, “Red Riding Hood Writes Back*”, “death of an imaginary friend”. The Stray Branch.
• “prologue”, “beginning as a second person”. Anti-Heroin Chic.
• “When Little Red Riding Hood Writes Back”, Thought Catalog.
• “menstruation”. Wingword Magazine.
  Commendable Mention in the National Wingword Poetry Contest
• “Halloween”. moonchild mag.
• “& the beast asks her, beauty, will you marry me”. Elixir Magazine.
• “Grandma Bruja”. Red Queen Literary Magazine, Issue 3.
• “how to never grow up”, “ghost(i)ng”. Public Pool.
• “this is how you remember being a girl”. The Bombay Review.
• “ 2 am insomnia”. Glass Kite Anthology.
• “View From Airplane Window”. Poems For All.

2016

• “Lacuna”, “old bridges”. kill joy lit mag.
• “The Secret Life of Celestial Objects #3”. Five:2: One, Issue 15.
• “Cake Making”, “pizza, two memories”. Rambutan Literary.
• “g(loved)”. Visual Verse.
• Guises”. Aubade Magazine.
• “Cartography of a Broken Town”. Bangalore Review.
• “Roses For Mariana”, “frosted glass”. Sugar Rascals, Issue 2.
• “Perfumed Fancies”, “Forecast”, “a catalogue of things i do not remember”. Ibis Head Review.
• “this is how you remember high school”, “Bad Girl Love”. Poetry Breakfast.
  Nominated for best of the net
• “Losing Teeth”. Eunoia Review.
• “Wonderland, Wilted”,”Monochrome Dream”,”season of rain“. venus mag.
• “Letter to the Mist”. Rising Phoenix Review.
  This poem won the first prize in the “Inspired By Gandhi” international writing competition by British Council and Sampad and was published in a commemorative anthology, available on Amazon.
• “Cake Making”, “pizza, two memories”. Pin Quarterly Journal.
• Both poems made it to the top 10 shortlist in the Eriata Oribhabor International Food Poetry Contest 2015, with “pizza, two memories” winning the 2^nd prize.
• “rocky love”. Seafoam mag.
• “Cake Making”. Vagabond City.
• “travel bag packed, but not ready to go”. Allegro.
• “A Day In Kashmir”, “memo”, “Childhood Fears”. Café Dissensus Everyday.
• “Wonderland, Wilted”. Fan/verses.
• “Dying Remembrance”, “Lines for someone who disappeared from poems I never wrote”. Blue Marble Review.
• no oasis for the lovelorn”. Parallel Ink.
• “when your brother dies in a riot”. Figroot Press.
• “no oasis for the lovelorn”. saintbrush.
• “Ant Soup”. HIV: Here And Now.
• “Ant Soup”, “season of mists”, “day before we parted”. Zaira Journal.
• “Guises”. Literature Studio.
• “Saudade”. Art Refurbish.
• “Alcoholic”. Shout It Out! Poems Against Domestic Violence.
• “Season of Snow”. Quail Bell Magazine.
• Season of Spring”, “Po”. Mad Swirl.
• “Acrostic”. Random Poem Tree.
• “to the girl who once loved black holes”, “to the lover who never wanted me, with retro love”. Moldero Magazine.

2015

• “Ant Soup”. eFictionIndia.
• “Stasis”, “Alcoholic”. Life in 10 Minutes.
• “Existential Cherries”, “English Class, Senior Year”, “For someone I can’t talk to anymore”. Teenage Wasteland Review.
• “First School Lesson”, “View From Running Train”. Vigil Pub Magazine.
• “Sixteen That Never Was”, “Soliloquy of a Flower Vase”. Tuck Magazine.

2014

• “Rain on the sidewalk.” Intelllinotions.
• “Season of Mists”. Quail Bell Magazine.
• “Girl on the Terrace”. Quail Bell Magazine.

Some of my earliest poems (not archived here) were published in Voices, The Statesman and, my school magazine (Kaleidoscope).