In “Study #1,” Nico Amador moves through transformation with startling precision, turning the figure of the deer into something both mythic and deeply intimate. Read the rest of Issue Fifty-Seven through the link in our bio.

Sailee Charlu’s “The Sound of One Heart” gathers a chorus of mouths mid-syllable. View the artwork in Issue Fifty-Seven through the link in our bio.

Katherine Grasso’s “How Girls Are” traces the ways women learn to wound and rescue one another. Read the full piece in Issue Fifty-Seven through the link in our bio.

We’re pleased to announce that Brenda Hillman’s poem “In the Spaces of Secret Enclosure,” published in Issue Fifty-Five, has been selected for a Pushcart Prize! Read the full poem at the link in our bio.

Humberto Ballesteros’s “A Cockroach,” translated by María Matilde Morales, follows the life and disappearance of Elsa of Marmato. Read the full piece in Issue Fifty-Seven through the link in our bio.

Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey’s “The Itch” traces one body’s restless attempt to understand what it means to inhabit the flesh. Read the full story in Issue Fifty-Seven through the link in our bio.

Talan Tee’s “Combinatorics” traces the afterlives of Taiwan’s White Terror through mahjong tiles, family memory, and inherited silence. Read the rest of Issue Fifty-Seven through the link in our bio.

A conversation with Emily Nemens on Clutch, elder millennial adulthood, and writing beyond the bildungsroman. Read the full interview in Issue Fifty-Seven through the link in our bio.

J. Marcelo Borromeo’s “The Hangers” unfolds a school forum that spirals into a brutal reckoning. Read the full piece in Issue Fifty-Seven through the link in our bio.

Priscilla Wathington’s “For Karimeh Abbud” honors the legacy of Palestine’s first female photographer. Read the rest of Issue Fifty-Seven through the link in our bio.

D. Frederick Thomas’s “Philadelphia Notebook” unfolds as a meditation on the instability of return. Read the full piece in Issue Fifty-Seven through the link in our bio.

New on The Forum: an interview with Carl Phillips, an excerpt from Robert Hass's new book of essays, and a review of Jake Rose's debut poetry collection, JOAN. Read all that and more here: theadroitjournal.org/blog/

There’s still time to submit to the 2026 Adroit Prizes, judged by Leila Chatti (for poetry) and Karissa Chen (for prose)! Submit here by 11:59 pm PT on May 12: theadroitjournal.org/adroit-prizes/

Ziyi Yan’s “Close Reading” moves through longing, distance, and self-interrogation. Read the rest of Issue Fifty-Seven through the link in our bio.

Ariel Delgado Dixon’s Sourland details survival in a harsh landscape. Read the full piece in Issue Fifty-Seven through the link in our bio.

Ellie Black’s “The History of Sexuality” interrogates the body, language, and the shifting meanings imposed on both. Read the rest of Issue Fifty-Seven through the link in our bio.

Kevin Young shares his thoughts on ghosts. Read the rest of the interview in Issue Fifty-Seven through the link in our bio.

In "Versions of Girlhood" Tina Chang celebrates the beauty of girlhood. Read the rest of Issue Fifty-Seven through the link in our bio.

Need more time to submit to the Adroit Prizes, high school & undergrad writers? We’ve extended the deadline to May 12! Send us your best through the link in our bio.

A whiz kid faces facts and felt truths in Adesuwa Agbonile’s kinetic short story “Brain Kid,” which earned her a 2026 Veasna So Scholarship! Read it in full, along with the rest of Issue Fifty-Seven, at the link in our bio.

“There is, then, the sudden air of grief.” Read the rest of Issue Fifty-Seven through the link in our bio.”

Issue Fifty-Seven has sprung! Explore work by our 2026 Djanikian and Veasna So Scholars alongside plenty more poetry, prose, interviews, and art at the link in our bio.

In "What We Planted," Chelsea Desautels meditates on growth and the simple life. Read the rest of Issue Fifty-Six through the link in our bio.

We’re happy to welcome the Adroit Mentorship Program’s 2026 cohort into the fold! See the full announcement at the link in our bio.

Maureen Seaton dissected the surreal existence of Florida in this poem of the same name. Read the rest of Issue Fifty-Six through the link in our bio.

Join us via Zoom at 8 pm EST next Tuesday (4/21) and Wednesday (4/22) for back-to-back readings celebrating Issue Fifty-Seven and our 2026 Scholars! RSVP at the link in our bio.

"The Recession" by Danielle Cadena Deulen details the acute helplessness of struggling financially. Read the rest of Issue Fifty-Six through the link in our bio.

Derek Chan's "Emperor of Air" explores both intimacy and loss. Read the rest of the poem in Issue Fifty-Six through the link in our bio.

Everything in our merch store is 20% off this month! Shop dad hats, leather journals, and limited-edition totes and posters at the link in our bio with the code POETRYAPRIL.

Cherline Bazile's "The Love of Your Life is The Love of Your Life" considers the glow of pregnancy. Read the rest of the piece in Issue Fifty-Six through the link in our bio.

We’re proud to announce the ninth class of Gregory Djanikian Scholars in Poetry and the fourth class of Anthony Veasna So Scholars in Fiction—twelve exciting emerging poets and fiction writers we should all be watching. Congratulations to all! theadroitjournal.org/2026/04/09/a...

Aiden Heung's "Landscape with the Night" considers desperation as the pre-cursor to physical labor. Read the rest of Issue Fifty-Six through the link in our bio.

"Autumn's Sister" by Lily Trotta chronicles the teen experience of becoming a woman. Read the whole piece in Issue Fifty-Six through the link in our bio.

Mikaela Hoover's "Semi-Speculative Elegy" considers fathers, ghosts, and ghosts of fathers. Read the rest of Issue Fifty-Six through the link in our bio.

David Ryan's "Parachutes" considers the anatomy of a fall. Read the full piece in Issue Fifty-Six through the link in our bio.

In "Large Bodies and Spaceships" Osuna meditates on the body as origami. Read the rest of issue 56 through the link in our bio.

Calling all high school and college writers! The 206 Adroit Prizes for Poetry & Prose are open for submissions through May 1, judged by the brilliant Leila Chatti and Karissa Chen. theadroitjournal.org/adroit-prizes/

In Brian Komei Dempster’s “Presence” history reverberates across generations. Read the rest of the poem through the link in our bio.

Jessica Q. Stark’s “Hoarding Disorder” maps inheritance as accumulation. Read the rest of Issue Fifty-Six through the link in our bio.

Margaret Ray’s “Stunt Double” stages the self as both performer and witness, absorbing impact, heartbreak, and repetition in a life with no stand-in. Read the rest of Issue Fifty-Six through the link in our bio.

Claire Y. Guo’s “The Types of Chinese You Meet on Vacation” ruminates on memory and heritage. Read the rest of the piece in Issue Fifty-Six through the link in our bio.

Ellie Black’s “Error Message: Catastrophic Failure” fractures language into a pulse of repetition and rupture. Read the rest of Issue Fifty-Six through the link in our bio.

Rosebud Ben-Oni’s “The Bear in Buc-ee’s in ::S p a c e h o r s e::" spirals through grief, humor, and language. Read the rest of in Issue Fifty-Six through the link in our bio.

Tania Pérez Osuna’s “Large Bodies and Spaceships” opens in a living room lit by television glow and devotion. Read the rest in Issue Fifty-Six through the link in our bio.

New on The Forum: a critical essay by Bobby Elliott, author of the award-winning poetry collection THE SAME MAN (2025), on persisting in the face of rejection and imposter syndrome. Read it (and more of the latest essays, interviews, and reviews) here! theadroitjournal.org/blog/

In “A Piano Lost in a Forest, Fox Are Out,” Sui Wang captures the quiet disorientation of language and longing. Read the rest of Issue Fifty-Six through the link in our bio.

Issue Fifty-Six features a powerful array or visual art across mediums, from photography to painting to sculpture. See them all at the link in our bio!

Joshua Bennett’s “Topeka, Kansas” traces how reading, translation, and memory shape a poet’s becoming. Read the rest of Issue Fifty-Six through the link in our bio.

Séamus Isaac Fey’s “My Therapist Graduated Me” wrestles with the question of what healing actually looks like. Read the rest of Issue Fifty-Six through the link in our bio.

In an excerpt from Tangerinn, Emanuela Anechoum captures the uneasy threshold of youth—wanting to be seen while fearing what that visibility might mean. Read the piece from Issue Fifty-Six through the link in our bio.