My last poem to share for 2025 is the first poem in "Beauty Talk" which comes out next fall with @noemipress.bsky.social! Thank you so much to Ladan Osman and Genevieve Hartman for including this poem in this month's curation!

I am the only person who can tell the story / of my departure

A little bit late to sharing this, but Adi is so proud to have nominated the following wonderful writers for a Pushcart Prize earlier this month. Congrats to Rania Mamoun, Alaa Alqaisi, Sharon Aruparayil, Tarfa Benson, @jezzbah.bsky.social, and Malak Hijazi!

"This country / doesn't exist for me without the story / of how we come to it." We're so pleased to share our last piece of the year, Asa Drake (@asaldrake.bsky.social)'s gorgeous poem "What Migration Will Do to You!" Art by Jinhwa Jang. READ: adimagazine.com/articles/wha...

NEW COLUMN ALERT! The Again column provides a space reflect on a text the author returns to again and again, and we're thrilled that Adi's publisher Nimmi Gowrinathan kicked us off with Frantz Fanon in "Again: The Wretched of the Earth." READ: adimagazine.com/articles/aga...

"There are names they never let bloom: not in maps, not in marrow— / cartographies erased by teeth, tongues chewed into hollow." There's a new poem, "Ghazal for the Dispossessed Republics" by Avril Shakira Villar on the Adi site! Art by Larissa Ribeiro. READ: adimagazine.com/articles/gha...

among all of the beautiful debuts i had the pleasure of spending time with, I also had the privilege of talking to @leilachatti.bsky.social about her second full-length (and one of my favorite books of the year!) WILDNESS BEFORE SOMETHING SUBLIME, for @adimagazine.bsky.social

"When Josefa heard that bird camouflaged among the trunks, she remembered when mother had run away from home." New fiction, "The River of Birds" by Quya Reyna, translated by Andree Michelle Viladegut Peñaranda is live today on Adi's website! Read: adimagazine.com/articles/the...

"As some of the oldest creatures on land, it makes sense that spiders are often part of our origin stories." A new essay, "Islands in the Sky" by Ashia S. Ajani, is live today on the Adi website! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/isl...

“The ghosts have learned how to whistle. You can hear their lips pressed into the cracks of the floorboards.” Read “Dawn and Her Brother’s Ghost” by Jess Masi in @adimagazine.bsky.social this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth! adimagazine.com/articles/daw...

"I resist the idea that writing about suffering and imagining new worlds are separate things. Often they happen together." New interview today with Abi Daré and Kehinde Adepetun on Daré's award-winning novel AND SO I ROAR! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/and...

"There is an age-old question about who came first: the River or the People? The answer you get depends on who you ask." Innocent Chizaram Ilo's short story "Bridge Gringo" is live on the Adi site today, with stunning art by our new illustrator, Jinhwa Jang! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/bri...

Were we an echo of an invented people who left in our wake as we fled from each other belts of precious metals, pigment, spice… Read Jennifer Elise Foerster’s poem “Asterism” in @adimagazine.bsky.social! #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth adimagazine.com/articles/ast...

"What a wonder, what a word, almost wander, as in through a luminous forest of dreams, almost window, a sly peephole into forever..." Natalie Wee's poem "Queer Ecology" is up on the Adi site this week, with art by Herikita! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/que...

"Language is where I grew less small light streaming through the gaps between my fingers..." New poetry up today on the Adi website! We're thrilled to share Ezza Ahmed's "Ten Days in the Tall Trees," with art by Larissa Ribeiro! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/ten...

"Before history is crystallized in textbooks, it is lived and made out of small steps. Some of those steps are bound to be in the wrong direction. Still, all of them matter." (Carolina Simionato) Loved reading this essay 😍

"Telling someone from Brazil that I grew up in the MST almost always involves baggage on their side and mine." Read Carolina Simionato's essay on joys and struggles of movement-building, out today from Adi! adimagazine.com/articles/the...

"The ghosts have learned how to whistle..." Sharing one of our most ghostly pieces today for Halloween! Read Jess Masi's short story "Dawn and Her Brother's Ghost" here: adimagazine.com/articles/daw...

#FF It’s Kangaroo Awareness Day! To celebrate, give ❤️ and a follow to these publications in the lit community beginning with “K” & “A”! @kegedoncepress.bsky.social @adimagazine.bsky.social @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social @abodepress.bsky.social @kwelijournal.bsky.social @acdclitmag.bsky.social

"It’s in the fissures, and the resistance, the all around mess where the real learning takes place." @melissachadburn.bsky.social's essay "Tilting at Windmills," about day laborers in LA County, activism, and academia, is out today from Adi. Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/til...

"Mr. Pal was lost in thoughts that flashed through his mind like the small islands of light in the sea of darkness outside his window." Shigraf Zabhi's short story "Twenty Questions" about train trips, memory, and yearning is up today on the Adi website! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/twe...

"I believe the poem will always lead me where I need to go." @summ.bsky.social interviews Leila Chatti about poetry as play and her new book WILDNESS BEFORE SOMETHING SUBLIME (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social). Their conversation is now out on the website! Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/int...

and here's a snippet of what she said when i asked about the angels

spoke with leila chatti about her new collection for @adimagazine.bsky.social 💙

"we were here when the Nakba took place that spring. / we hid the gold at the bottom of the well near the spring—we knew we’d return. we safeguard your stories when you are silenced." "saber" by Aicha bint Yusif is live today on the Adi website. Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/sab...

"write my name— Malak. not: “female, age unknown.” not: “Gazan civilian in a blue plastic bag." write it today, tomorrow, again— until metaphor is no longer a metaphor." Malak Hijazi writes from Gaza in this new poem from Adi, "A Lullaby for Gaza." READ: adimagazine.com/articles/a-l...

My mini poem, titled, "Where do you go when the Genocide is too Loud" is out today on @adimagazine.bsky.social 🎉 Incredibly honoured that the editors chose to give this piece a home. And, as always, #FreePalestine 🇸🇩

Dear Kabunian, I love you even though you gave your buhay to our bodies, even though you shaped us from the soup… —Hari Alluri’s “Letter to the Deity Who Told Me Arriving Here Is Difficult as Welcome” in @adimagazine.bsky.social #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth adimagazine.com/articles/let...

"Where Do You Go When the Genocide is Too Loud?" asks Fatima Abdullahi in this new poem, out today from Adi. READ: adimagazine.com/articles/whe...

“On Christmas Day, my family and I wrapped our warm bodies against the arbitrary demarcations of the Canada-U.S. border.” Read Hannah Keziah Agustin’s essay “World Without End” in @adimagazine.bsky.social #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth adimagazine.com/articles/wor...

"Literature can document stories related to the struggle—not just the hardship people face, but also how they achieve victory when they continue to resist." Tristan James Biglete interviews Faye Cura of Gantala Press in the Philippines! Read: adimagazine.com/articles/to-...

Congratulations to Adi's nominees for the Best of the Net anthology @sundresspub.bsky.social! 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! ♥

"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! adimagazine.com/articles/abo...

“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 @adimagazine.bsky.social! #HispanicHeritageMonth adimagazine.com/articles/rea...

"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: adimagazine.com/articles/per...

"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: adimagazine.com/articles/the...

"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! adimagazine.com/articles/a-d...

"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 & @gianninabraschi.bsky.social on Braschi's book PUTINOIKA (@flowersongpress.bsky.social)! tinyurl.com/5n7dp5uw

“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 @adimagazine.bsky.social & featured on our #WomenInTranslationMonth reading list: adimagazine.com/articles/two...

"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: adimagazine.com/articles/rea...

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 @adimagazine.bsky.social & on our #WomenInTranslationMonth reading list: adimagazine.com/articles/sol...

"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. adimagazine.com/articles/lov...

#FF Give some ❤️ and a follow to these publications in the lit community: @3centsmagazine.bsky.social @adimagazine.bsky.social @cablestreet-litmag.bsky.social @deepsouthsa.bsky.social @galleon-books.bsky.social @humourmemag.bsky.social @lamplitmag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social Cont ⬇️

"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: adimagazine.com/articles/cit...

"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 @adimagazine.bsky.social #translation #translators adimagazine.com/articles/the...

Alaa's essay now published in Slovenian: jalastovka.si/pod-tuljenje... in Greek: linkedin.com/posts/gelly-... in Albanian: nyje.al/nen-ulerimen... Please be in touch if you are translating.

"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 @arablit.bsky.social Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...

"i betrays you you comedy fool you greying ghost—" There's a new poem by Dior J. Stephens out today at Adi! Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/222...

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: adimagazine.com/articles/tin...

"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. adimagazine.com/articles/the...