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...

thrilled to have a new story forthcoming in @adimagazine.bsky.social 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!

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 @fsgbooks.bsky.social! Read "Experimental Architecture" here: adimagazine.com/articles/exp...

"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: adimagazine.com/articles/sti...

"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/ @natashakimiz.bsky.social about ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE! adimagazine.com/articles/nat...

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: adimagazine.com/articles/edi...

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: adimagazine.submittable.com/submit

"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: adimagazine.com/articles/let...

“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 @adimagazine.bsky.social‬! #APAHeritageMonth adimagazine.com/articles/lig...

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! adimagazine.submittable.com/submit

"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! adimagazine.com/articles/exi...

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! ☀️ adimagazine.submittable.com/submit

Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social (Poetry; pays) opened to poetry submissions. #amwriting