"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...

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...

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...

Finally, a cover! And soon, a book! A Natural History of the Spirits offers profound meditations on the history of colonialism, racism, and social and ecological change. Coming to stores November 10! Pre-order here: bookshop.org/p/books/a-na...

I wrote about my favorite book!!

"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...

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...

"When I say Yafa, a yacht sails between my fingers, and into my words a crescent moon falls." Three new poems by Heba Abunada, translated with commentary from Huda J. Fakhreddine, are live on the Adi site today! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/all...

Surprise! Adi has a new website 💜🧡 we're so pleased to share our new site is up and running, with new colors, better search navigation, and a design that better showcases our amazing contributors and illustrators. Go check out our latest pieces at adimagazine.com!

New essay alert! Check out @torsa.bsky.social's essay, "River Humanism," which meditates on bauls, wandering musicians from West Bengal, India, and Bangladesh, and their philosophy of movement. READ: adimagazine.com/articles/riv...

The second installment of Adi's new "Again" column is live today! Myriam J. A. Chancy reflects on the book "Crossing the Mangrove" by Maryse Condé! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/aga...

We're thrilled to share the essay "To Translate is to Resist" by Nedra Rodrigo, excerpted from TAMIL TERRAINS (@tracepress.bsky.social, November 2025) with artwork by Kaya Joan! Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/to-...

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Everybody's calling Assigned Media "the best little news site on the internet," but how will this scrappy team of journalists survive a new year of untold horrors? With YOUR HELP, of course! That's right, get hype everyone for the 2026 start-of-year fundraising drive!

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"i have dreamt it before, this terrible reckoning, this gaping..." Adi's first publication of the year is here! Asmaa Jama's poem "I have gone mad before, so I am not afraid" is live today, with art by Kaya Joan. Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/i-h...

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!

"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...

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...

"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...

"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...

"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...

"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...

"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...

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! ♥

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 🇸🇩

"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...

"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...

“Buried Sunshine” my essay on Illinois coal mining and Black and Indigenous histories of violence is now out! www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

"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...

This heat wave is absolutely bone crushing. I'm so glad I installed central air two years ago. But if you're without AC, or you're dealing with a heat wave for the first time because it's reaching areas that don't historically get this hot, here are a few tips from my years of poverty in a desert:

‘The US and Israeli governments have presented the offensive as a pre-emptive effort to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, but that justification is laughable. Israel, on the other hand, has hundreds of undeclared nuclear weapons.’ @tomstevenson.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Tiberius— "There has never been a better time to watch this video"

The decision in Skrmetti lets politicians create their own evidence to justify banning necessary healthcare. It's bad, writes @evanurquhart.bsky.social. Not just for trans people, but for anyone whose healthcare is or could potentially be politically contested. Read more here:

Adi is publishing weekly!

When I heard the mom of a trans girl say the night her daughter came out to her was the first time she'd ever seen her child happy, I knew it was a story I needed to share. These are the stories the public isn't hearing. An honor to get to report on 3 family's journeys for @teenvogue.com.

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

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: adimagazine.submittable.com/submissions

"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: adimagazine.com/articles/sol...

"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: adimagazine.com/articles/wor...

Submissions are OPEN through 5/4/25! Send us your fiction here: adimagazine.submittable.com/submit

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. Read the full poem here: adimagazine.com/articles/don...

One of my old pieces (on vultures) got a new life with @nautil.us narrations.!

DOGE is eviscerating the federal workforce to pay for a tax bill which will benefit the wealthiest Americans, including Elon Musk. Which agencies are laying off federal workers? Here's your master list, including the gutting of the Environmental Protection Agency. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

"Nobody voted for Elon Musk. And nobody wants airplanes to fall out of the sky. But after Musk pushed out the head of the FAA and Donald Trump gutted the agency’s safety board, and Musk attempted to push air traffic controllers to quit, the worst domestic airline disaster since 2001 occurred."