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"I tried to imagine what Mark Twain, dead more than a century, might have said to provoke the president. That question sent me back to a novel that once jolted my nervous system..." New essay by Keli Dailey on Mark Twain is out from Adi this week! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/rer...

"a portal to sit with / your younger self / and the younger / selves of family / members and / ancestors" Experience Rona Luo's visual poem "Towards a Liberated Public Space," out today on the Adi site! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/tow...

"I remember the rush I felt when I read that first line written in loud capital letters—joy, support, a bit of power. I was heard and seen." The latest Again essay is here, featuring Farah Ali's reflections on A GHOST IN THE THROAT (Biblioasis). READ: adimagazine.com/articles/aga...

"I used to be a whole person. I think." We've got a new short story out today, "Skeevy" by LaTesha Harris! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/ske...

Have you purchased your copy of LUCKY CREATURES by Joseph Trinidad yet? Get a sneak peek and read the excerpt on Adi Magazine (@adimagazine.bsky.social) and purchase at the link in bio.

New excerpt out today! Read Joseph Trinidad's "Da Skin Suit" on the Adi site, then run over to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social to grab a copy of LUCKY CREATURES, which is out today! Art by Kaya Joan. READ: adimagazine.com/articles/da-... BUY: www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

I also wrote about carnaval, gentrification and music for @adimagazine.bsky.social: adimagazine.com/articles/mus...

"To be mortared by a place-song. This is how beauty erases beauty." We have a new poem by Sarpong Osei Asamoah live on the site today! Read "Gospel" here: adimagazine.com/articles/gos...

The Again Book Club is almost here! Have you signed up yet? It's free, and we're thrilled to welcome our fiction editor @laylamohamed.bsky.social in conversation with Melissa Chadburn on PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED by Paulo Freire! Join us 6/9 at 2 PM ET! REGISTER: www.eventbrite.com/e/again-book...

"Playing in the street during Carnival has allowed me to detach my own self-worth from my intellectual, desk-bound work." A new essay by @nicolefroio.bsky.social, "Music at the End of the World," is live today on the Adi site! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/mus...

I just got published by @adimagazine.bsky.social, where I wrote about my experiences playing in Rio de Janeiro's brass bands, and the potential utopias music brings to the streets: adimagazine.com/articles/mus...

"I do not want / to be an apology for where I am from." We've got a new poem up on the Adi site today, "Black is the First Exit" by Oladosu Michael Emerald! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/bla...

"In my coldest memories, there is fire. I shiver at the top of the stairs, clutching the banister and wishing my mother would stop crying." We have a new story, "All the Fire You Can Swallow," up today by Jamie McGhee, alongside art by Kaya Joan! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/all...

One week left to submit your poetry to @adimagazine.bsky.social! The editors seek work exploring alternative political visions “that bends genres, that embraces the absurd, that excavates interior lives alongside external conflicts.” Learn more: www.clmp.org/members/open...

Heads up, there's still time to attend this event TONIGHT in Brooklyn at Community Bookstore at 7 PM featuring Adi's publisher Nimmi Gowrinathan and contributor Anna Badkhen, for the launch of Anna's new book TO SEE BEYOND! REGISTER: www.eventbrite.com/e/anna-badkh...

We're thrilled to have a stunning graphic essay by Simone Ren, "What Piano Taught Me," out today on the Adi site! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/wha...

Tues: @adimagazine.bsky.social hold online panel "Confronting Structures of Censorship" featuring @kirstenhan.com @jankcurbelo.bsky.social & more Wed: The International Network for Critical China Studies hold webinar "Academic Freedom and China" 4/

A new essay by Tehila Okagbue, "Things My Hair Remembers," is live today on the Adi site, alongside art by Kaya Joan. Read at the link below! adimagazine.com/articles/thi...

"at the gates, we are addressed as chasers of mirages / skittering through rubbles of heritage..." We have a new poem by Abu Bakr Sadiq, "On an Excursion to the National Tourism Center," live today, with art by Kaya Joan! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/on-...

I wrote about my favorite book!!

Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting

The latest Again column is live this week! @theoceanisgay.bsky.social returns to BLUEST NUDE by Ama Codjoe (Milkweed, 2022). READ: adimagazine.com/articles/aga...

Adi is OPEN for poetry submissions! Send up to 5 pages of poems at the link below! We're reading poetry that imagines alternative political visions for a world in desperate need of them. We pay $150/accepted poem. Submit for free from May 1-31! adimagazine.submittable.com/submit/35006...

"we only communicate through shapeshifting. You control the apertures. I am at your whim." We're thrilled to share a new poem by mónica teresa ortiz to cap off National Poetry Month! Read "Prelude" here: adimagazine.com/articles/pre...

New event! 📆12th May 🕖7pm Eastern @adimagazine.bsky.social hold online panel "Confronting Structures of Censorship" featuring Ruxandra Guidi, @kirstenhan.com, Rania Mamoun & @jankcurbelo.bsky.social Details: www.eventbrite.com/e/confrontin...

New story! "Since the Great Reorder, it’s been kind of weird to talk to each other. We live alone, in compartmentalized tiny apartments...never allowed to make conversation." New fiction, "The Crocodile Married, and Then It Was Over" in @adimagazine.bsky.social adimagazine.com/articles/the...

Join Adi for our virtual panel,"Confronting Structures of Censorship" on May 12 at 7 PM ET! We'll be featuring @kirstenhan.com, Rania Mamoun and Jesús Jank Curbelo, in conversation with Adi's nonfiction editor, Ruxandra Guidi. Free registration is available here: www.eventbrite.com/e/confrontin...

"Since the Great Reorder, it’s been kind of weird to talk to each other. We live alone, in compartmentalized tiny apartments...never allowed to make conversation." New fiction, "The Crocodile Married, and Then It Was Over" by Mandira Pattnaik, is out today! adimagazine.com/articles/the...

"They said there is eros in revolt / a collective effervescence of / entangled limbs" Read Adi's latest poem, Shui-yin Sharon Yam's "Romance in the Time of Revolution" out today alongside art by Herikita! adimagazine.com/articles/rom...

This essay, plus staff recs of great work from @latriagraham.bsky.social at @talkscratch.bsky.social, @eveewing.bsky.social and @adimagazine.bsky.social, @placesjournal.bsky.social, @baltimorebeat.bsky.social, and more. www.therevivallab.org/on-balloons-...

🧡 The Hungering Years: Summer Farah on Holding a Magnifying Glass to Everything, interviewed by Laura Villareal for @adimagazine.bsky.social | @summ.bsky.social adimagazine.com/articles/the...

new interview in @adimagazine.bsky.social about THE HUNGERING YEARS with laura villareal :) adimagazine.com/articles/the...

I'll be joining a panel organised by @adimagazine.bsky.social to talk about confronting censorship in May! More details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/confrontin...

"the repetitions in my life, as fostered by obsession, comes through in the repetition of my poems—" Adi has a new interview by Laura Villareal with Summer Farah on Farah's new book THE HUNGERING YEARS (Host Publications, 2026) out today! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/the...

There's still time to sign up for Adi's next Again Book Club on J. M. Coetzee's WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS, featuring Anna Badkhen in conversation with Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor! Sign up for free below, and join us tomorrow, 4/7 at 1 PM ET! www.eventbrite.com/e/again-book...

We are so thrilled that two contributors to Adi were named finalists for @sundresspub.bsky.social's 2026 Best of the Net anthology! Congratulations to Larissa Ribeiro and Jess Masi! You can check out the entire anthology here: bestofthenetanthology.com

"I walk the same route with one instruction: to notice, not judge." It's National Poetry Month in the US, and we're happy to be sharing a new poem today by Sanjani Bijlani entitled "Window!" READ: adimagazine.com/articles/win...

"The burial rituals that accompanied my father’s death have been systematically denied to the people of Gaza." "The Horizon Remains Out of Reach" by Bayan Haddad is out today on the Adi website, with by art by Larissa Ribeiro. READ: adimagazine.com/articles/the...

“The way Yasmin stares at her toes breaks something she thought had long since healed. She knows how it feels to be that trapped, how few people believe you when you speak up.” @ruthjoffre.bsky.social in @adimagazine.bsky.social adimagazine.com/articles/los...

“There are those who, predictably, hate the woman state. Envy fevers the face. How they’re dying to taste the woman state.” —Tracy K. Smith in “The Woman State,” a poem in @adimagazine.bsky.social #WomensHistoryMonth adimagazine.com/articles/the...

"What better sign is there that a book has penetrated your psyche than becoming an evangelist for its cause?" The latest installment in Adi's new column is here! Read "Again: Pedagogy of the Oppressed" by Adi's fiction editor, @laylamohamed.bsky.social. adimagazine.com/articles/aga...

Just under a week left to submit to Adi's fiction open call! Submissions are free, and are open until March 31, 2026, so send your stories soon! We pay $500 per accepted short story. Read the guidelines and send us your work here: adimagazine.submittable.com/submit

"& it’s calling home / the cracked-open, the strays, / and showing them again the way back" New poem today by noori, accompanied by art by Candice Evers! READ HERE: adimagazine.com/articles/pla...

Khaddafina Mbabazi’s story “Evidence” in @adimagazine.bsky.social begins, “That Friday morning, by the time the call for fajr rang out from the mosque in Old Kampala, Abraham was already speaking.” From our #WomensHistoryMonth reading list: adimagazine.com/articles/evi...

Have you signed up for the next Again Book Club? We'll be reading WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS by J. M. Coetzee, featuring essayist Anna Badkhen in conversation with Yvonne Adhiambo Owour! Free registration can be found here: www.eventbrite.com/e/again-book...

"The reality on the ground is our political freedoms and civil liberties are dwindling, and our capacity for dissent and activism has been stifled." New today: "No Free Labor for Authoritarians: Censorship and Dissent in Singapore" by Kirsten Han (@kirstenhan.com) adimagazine.com/articles/no-...

"apologies for the start / that photoshops stillbirth to quiet death / apologies for the death / that comes to us as a generous villain" New poetry by Nwuguru, Chidiebere Sullivan is live today on the Adi site! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/end...

ICYMI while Bluesky was down yesterday: I have a new story in @adimagazine.bsky.social! check it out if you like: portals, magical libraries, love stories between mortals and immortals, and people who try to make the world a better place

Adi Magazine events alerts! Tomorrow, 3/5, in Baltimore at #awp2026: our panel "Global Words in a Time of Crisis" w/ Guernica & @asterixjournal.bsky.social! And looking ahead, our online Again Book Club with Anna Badkhen on WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS is on 4/7: www.eventbrite.com/e/again-book...