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Adi is an international literary magazine rehumanizing policy. New pieces weekly! adimagazine.com
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"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers." —Alaa Alqaisi for
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Beneath the Howl of Hunger
“And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain.” – Alaa Alqaisi
https://arablit.org/2025/07/21/beneath-the-howl-of-hunger/
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Congratulations to Adi's nominees for the Best of the Net anthology
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! We're so proud of our contributors and love a chance to shout out their incredible work. Best of luck to each of these wonderful writers and artists! ♥
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"above from below. below from above. who convinces us that our destiny is unchanging?" Read angel bista's dreamy hybrid fiction, out today on the website!
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above from below. below from above. who convinces us that our destiny is unchanging? that we are born with fates, fixed and borrowed from the stars? ... The ocean does not churn milk from salt fo...
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“With great prosperity came great suffering in NATION. People were either born into prosperity or suffering, and sometimes in between.” Find Melina Casados’s “Read Me in Atmosphere” in
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Read Me in Atmosphere
Editor's note: due to formatting, this piece is best viewed on desktop. With great prosperity came great suffering in NATION.People were either born into prosperity or suffering, and sometimes in…
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"Why was the state so hard on people like mom? Why was its assistance so precarious and intermittent?" Abby Rocha's graphic essay "Perseverance" is out today, discussing Rocha's relationship with their mother, their artistic journey, & more! Read here:
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Perseverance
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"That was the first lesson the state taught us: that worth could be sliced between two identical bodies." Sharon Aruparayil's story "The Year My Sister Became a Border" is published today on the Adi site! Read this stunning piece of short fiction here:
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The Year My Sister Became a Border
In a small, state-funded maternity ward where solar light flickered and rust crept like ivy along the windowsills, my mother was given precisely sixty seconds to decide which of her newborns would liv...
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"At the bitter door of no return, the life of every locked door was thrown open wide." New poetry today: Luisa Villa Meriño's stunning landays, translated by Kim Jensen!
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A Dark Stain on the House: Fifteen Landays
The landay is a poetic form traditionally developed by Pashtun women in Afghanistan; it is a part of their rich oral tradition. The word “landay” in Pashto translates as “little poisonous snake,” a me...
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"Don’t live on the defense! Offend! Why would I be worried about what the white minority is thinking or reading in their comfort zone?" Out today: a new interview w/ Mónica Ramón Ríos &
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on Braschi's book PUTINOIKA (
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A Choral Response to Disaster: Mónica-Ramón Ríos interviews Giannina Braschi on Putinoika
In 2024, Puerto Rican writer and longtime New York resident Giannina Braschi published her fourth novel, Putinoika (Flowersong Press, 2024), a book that seems almost impossible to describe. When a col...
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“Your names are the only language that hold any meaning penned into the skin…” Read two poems by Amany El-Regeb and Aiya Sakr (translated from the Arabic by Sakr), published in
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Two Poems
You’ve demolished my homes in your hubris
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"With great prosperity came great suffering in NATION." Part myth, part personal narrative, part poem, "Read Me in Atmosphere" by Melina Casados is live on the website today! Art by Larissa Ribeiro. Read here:
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Read Me in Atmosphere
Editor's note: due to formatting, this piece is best viewed on desktop. With great prosperity came great suffering in NATION.People were either born into prosperity or suffering, and sometimes ...
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Mars is closer to Earth precisely today 56 million kilometers a glowing red dot… —“Solastalgia” by Adriana Lisboa, translated from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin, is featured in
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Solastalgia
translated by Alison Entrekin Mars is closer to Earth precisely today 56 million kilometers a glowing red dot we’d say a star from here from this other dot where fireflies survive precisely today the…
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"I never expected to search for a 'female-friendly shotgun.' ...Then again, I never expected America to get this spooky." Read Keli Dailey's fiery essay "Love Song of the Liberal Gun Owner," paired with artwork by the incredible Candice Evers.
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Love Song of the Liberal Gun Owner
I never expected to search for a “female-friendly shotgun.” Or to end up matching with a Mossberg Maverick 88: a $300, 12-gauge, pump-action made in Texas, just like me. Then again, I never expected A...
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"Star is my name. Something quiet but also an incandescence. I like that word: its sound lingers like embers floating up to the night sky." Gabriela Jauregui's haunting short story "Citlalli" is out today from Adi! Read the full piece here:
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Citlalli
A star reflects light. It is a distant light. It is a center, surrounded. It is what surrounds the center. A celestial body. It hides. Twinkles. Star is my name. Something quiet but also an incandesce...
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"To translate Gaza is to search not merely for the right words, but for the ears willing to receive them." Alaa Alqaisi in The Double Life of a Palestinian Translator
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The Double Life of a Palestinian Translator
I. The Translator as a Witness to Vanishing Worlds To be a Palestinian translator is to become an intermediary between a vanishing world and one that often refuses to acknowledge its disappearance....
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Alaa's essay now published in Slovenian:
jalastovka.si/pod-tuljenje...
in Greek:
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in Albanian:
nyje.al/nen-ulerimen...
Please be in touch if you are translating.
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"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers." —Alaa Alqaisi for
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Beneath the Howl of Hunger
“And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain.” – Alaa Alqaisi
https://arablit.org/2025/07/21/beneath-the-howl-of-hunger/
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"i betrays you you comedy fool you greying ghost—" There's a new poem by Dior J. Stephens out today at Adi! Read here:
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222 or asyndetic
ibetrays youyou comedyfool yougreyingghost—ihides fromi’s facein mirrorsmadeshuttershut—idisassemblesi’sself insubzerooverthinkeach nighteach bit—i’s ichopped upfor parts—ilibe-rates y-ousi-debysi-de ...
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Adi's first graphic essay "Tiny T" by the wonderful Nasrin Sheykhi is out today on the website! Check out this essay on Nasrin's fraught immigration to the US and her subsequent "Tiny Trump" portrait. Read here:
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Tiny T
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"Is the world willing to hear, or are we only speaking into an echo chamber of grief?" Read Alaa Alqaisi's devastating essay, "The Double Life of a Palestinian Translator," out today from Adi.
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The Double Life of a Palestinian Translator
I. The Translator as a Witness to Vanishing Worlds To be a Palestinian translator is to become an intermediary between a vanishing world and one that often refuses to acknowledge its disappearance....
https://adimagazine.com/articles/the-double-life-of-a-palestinian-translator-a-bridge-between-wounds-and-words/
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thrilled to have a new story forthcoming in
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about a magical library, a social worker who falls in love with the immortal librarian, and their efforts to use the library's magic to assist someone fleeing abuse! also: libraries are amazing! please support them!
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Today we are pleased to share an excerpt titled "Experimental Architecture" from Daniela Catrileo's forthcoming book CHILCO, translated by Jacob Edelstein! Out 7/15/25 from
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Experimental Architecture
Most people we knew wanted to get away from Capital City as soon as they could. The problem was they had nowhere to go. There were places that might stay habitable for a while, maybe for decades, but ...
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"Voices ringing out around me on streets growing familiar, I could almost dare to believe it—that we might survive this administration together." Check out Adi's newest essay, "Stitching Community" by Roohi Choudhry! READ:
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Stitching Community: The Immigrant Women Who Handmade a Brooklyn Neighborhood
November 9, 2016, past midnight. I tried and failed to undress in my dark bedroom, caught in a tangle of clothes. My hands shook too hard to meet the demands of buttons and zippers. I gave up and fell...
https://adimagazine.com/articles/stitching-community-the-immigrant-women-who-handmade-a-brooklyn-neighborhood/
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"Hakimi Zapata asks us not to despair no matter how dire circumstances may be, and draws examples from around the world to remind us that change is achievable." Read Yassmin Abdel-Magied's interview w/
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Adi is evolving! We will now publish a new piece weekly! This shift means we can offer readers more timely writing about how global policies affect our lives. Please follow along + sign up for our newsletter—exciting things to come ❤️ Read our full editor's note:
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Editor’s Note
Adi Magazine is evolving! We will now publish a new piece every week, curating a selection of creative nonfiction, poetry, short fiction, and visual art on the ideas and stories that provoke and inspi...
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The final day for submissions has arrived! Send Adi your poems before the end of the day (EST) for consideration. Free submissions + $150/accepted poems! Submit submit submit:
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"I love you / even though what I know of exile / living also includes joy." Today from the Adi Archive we are highlighting the poem "Letter to the Deity Who Told Me Arriving Here Is Difficult as Welcome" by Hari Alluri! Read the full piece here:
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Letter to the Deity Who Told Me Arriving Here Is Difficult as Welcome
I love you / even though what I know of exile / living also includes joy.
https://adimagazine.com/articles/letter-to-the-deity-who-told-me-arriving-here-is-difficult-as-welcome/
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“In African elephant and certain whale populations, the age and health of the oldest female is an important indicator of the well-being of the youngest animals in the herd.” Read Seema Reza’s essay “Light Multiplies” in
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PSA to send Adi your poems before 5/31! There's no cost to submit and we pay $150 per accepted poem. We can't wait to read your work!
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"Exile did not begin the day I left Sudan. It began years earlier, when I was a girl...writing stories the world around me had no room for." Rania Mamoun's gorgeous essay, "Exile Wrote Me Twice" is now live with art by Kaya Joan!
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Exile Wrote Me Twice
Exile did not begin the day I left Sudan. It began years earlier, when I was a girl hiding notebooks between the flour tins in my mother’s kitchen, writing stories the world around me had no room for....
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CALLING ALL POETS! Adi is open for poetry submissions with a focus on alternative political visions from 5/9 - 5/31! Send 3-5 poems to us via Submittable. We're thrilled to offer free submissions and $150 for accepted pieces. Can't wait to read your poems! ☀️
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Today in light of current events, we are highlighting an entire issue from Adi's backlist. Published in Summer 2020, Adi's fourth issue, "Kashmir: Silence is Not an Option" provides a variety of perspectives on Kashmir's long history of resistance and struggle. Read:
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Kashmir: Silence Is Not An Option
A year after the siege.
https://adimagazine.com/issues/issue-4/
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SUBMISSIONS CLOSE TOMORROW! Send us your fiction on the theme of alternative political visions ASAP! No submission fees, and we pay $200 for flash, $500 for short fiction. Can't wait to read your work 🫶
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"Lucia. No one calls her that anymore, not since her father died." New fiction just dropped! Read "How to Read the Air" by Tarfa Benson at the link below.
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How to Read the Air
Lucia. No one calls her that anymore, not since her father died. When Lucian Zadedoo heard his girlfriend had given birth in America, he insisted on naming the child after himself, and Ngohide after h...
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All approaching deadline so you'd better be quick 🖤 Everything you need to submit here:
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Friendly reminder that our submissions are still open for fiction! You've got until 5/4 to send us your alternative political visions. We offer free submissions and $500 for accepted short fiction or $200 for accepted flash fiction! Submit here:
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Before I was myself, I was her. All the animals she stopped seeing. The angels who came down to dress her… —“Doll Swing” by Priscilla Wathington, featured in
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In addition to anything else you do on
#EarthDay
today, take a moment to read a poem, story, or essay about the environment from one (or several) of the literary magazines in our reading list:
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A Reading List for Earth Day 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
This reading list of poems, essays, and stories published by CLMP member magazines includes writing about nature, the climate crisis, and more. Essays “From the Oldest Forest in Montana” by Rick…
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"what does Earth look like / from inside time" Happy Earth Day! We're celebrating by sharing "Solastalgia" by Adriana Lisboa, translated by Alison Entrekin! Read here:
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Solastalgia
translated by Alison Entrekin Mars is closer to Earth precisely today 56 million kilometers a glowing red dot we’d say a star from here from this other dot where fireflies survive precisely t...
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if anyone simply cannot decide between all the wonderful options, may we suggest “the pipeline” by venezia castro herikita in
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and “last summer i dug two graves i hope never to fill” by john sibley williams in
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My short, pot-bellied uncle takes me up to the roof of his house at the top of the hilly village to show me the far-reaching landscape. —“New Neighbors” by Edward Salem, featured in
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"We don’t ask for history, / but it asks too much of us." It's National Poetry Month, so we're back with another poem from the backlist! Today we're sharing Momtaza Mehri's “I AM BRINGING THE HISTORY OF THE KITCHEN SINK INTO OUR BEDROOM AND YOU CAN’T STOP ME.” Read:
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I AM BRINGING THE HISTORY OF THE KITCHEN SINK INTO OUR BEDROOM AND YOU CAN’T STOP ME
The fear is: the chalk of our origins will not smudge.
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"Despite being separated by a steel boundary, and despite being unable to close the space between us, we hugged as if our lives depended on it, as if family wasn’t made to be broken." Hannah Keziah Agustin's new essay, "World Without End," is out today! Read:
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World Without End
On Christmas Day, my family and I wrapped our warm bodies against the arbitrary demarcations of the Canada-U.S. border. Mom, Dad, Ate Han, Mamita, and I were on the American side, and Tito Ben, Tita E...
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It's National Poetry Month in the US, so we are featuring poetry from Adi's backlist for the month of April! Today we're sharing Franny Choi's “Fugue in DMZ/Frontera,” from our Impossible Homes issue. Read here:
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Fugue DMZ/Frontera
across DMZ, sanctuary / gapes like a scar.
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Submissions are OPEN through 5/4/25! Send us your fiction here:
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Submissions open TOMORROW, 4/4/25, for short fiction submissions on the theme of "alternative political visions" — we need them now more than ever. Go to Adi's submission page to read the full prompt, share, and don't forget to follow us for reminders! ➡
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Adi is pleased to share Esther Lin's poem, "Done Right" as a continuation of our Into the Blank issue. This poem is from Esther's new collection, COLD THIEF PLACE, out now from
@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social
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Done Right
One bed, squared-off sheets.One toothbrush, pearl blue,one toothbrush, pink.The petitioner shuts the doorand hangs his hat.The beneficiary says,It’s time to lie down.The petitioner says,All right. Yes...
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"What fungus shapes here, what / ever-widening lesion plants / into shapeless nights..." We are thrilled to share a new poem, "Impulse Control" by
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Impulse Control
What fungus shapes here, what ever-widening lesion plantsinto shapeless nights, hooks onto a mania that I study endlessly,light-like; a cat finicking the recesses of a waking dream?I read...
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