sinθ magazine

皮糙肉厚。。。tough hands, rough skin Submissions to Sine Theta Magazine's 30th issue, themed “COARSE 糙,” are officially open! Thanks to our Patreon subscribers, Sine Theta Magazine is a paying publication—all contributors will receive $10 USD per piece. The dregs of ground coffee at the bottom of the mug. The grate of sandpaper against wood. The crunch of gravel beneath bare feet.

By Yue Chen. “This is the first live poetry reading I’ve attended since shit went down in 2020,” I tell my coursemate as we sit down in the lecture theater at our Oxford college, in January 2023. I look around at the influx of undergraduates. The event in question, organized by the university’s poetry society, features Hong Kong-Chinese poet Mary Jean Chan, author of Flèche (Faber & Faber, 2019) and senior lecturer in creative writing at Oxford Brookes University.

ORDER SINθ #29 NOW Your tongue stings with raw lemon, sherbert, salt-and-vinegar chips, leaving an acidic taste behind. “SOUR 酸” chronicles sourness and its multiplicities—a look into candy that fizzles before turning sweet, into relationships that spark and burn and fester into resentment. Dig into flavor and feeling, into work that tingles the senses and burns holes in its wake.

ORDER SINθ #28 NOW Somewhere, an orchestra is tuning. Silence is broken by a single suspended note slowly building into layers of instruments, hearing and finding each other and then—fading again. Ready to launch into an odyssey of sound. “SOUND 音” swells and resonates into a rich sonic landscape, signals in the static.

ORDER SINθ #27 NOW Join us in celebrating community and connection, the relationships that shape all of us into who we are. Swim in the rivers of your childhood memories. Ponder companionship and collectivism and interconnected threads, a head resting against a shoulder. “FRIEND 朋” is a tapestry documenting the seasons of friendship: the initial spark and the ending fizzle and the tender moments that fall in the middle.

望秋先零。。。To wither in the face of fall; with the feebleness of old age while still in youth. Submissions to Sine Theta Magazine's 25th issue, themed “ZERO 零” are officially open! Thanks to our Patreon subscribers, Sine Theta Magazine is a paying publication—all contributors will be paid $10 USD per piece. Zero is the cardinality of an empty set; that is, the number of its elements. It is not nothing–nothing is nothing–and yet it can represent nothingness. A resting point. Half of a totality.

Issue #10 was released in February 2019. Its theme was THRIVE 盛.

烟炎张天。。。smoke spreads across the sky; a choking, oppressive sensation. Submissions to Sine Theta Magazine's 24th issue, themed “EMBER 炎” are officially open! Thanks to our Patreon subscribers, Sine Theta Magazine is a paying publication—all contributors will be paid $10 USD per piece. The sun has not set in days. The sky, the color of a forest fire. The clouds are inflamed, heavy with the truth. You are parched and breaking into a sweat. You are always breaking into a sweat.