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Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social · Jul 25
"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

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Beneath the Howl of Hunger
“And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain.” – Alaa Alqaisi
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EVENT ALERT! We're thrilled to have a virtual panel, "On the Politics of Translation" upcoming on January 20, 2026, featuring Chenxin Jiang, Alaa Alqaisi, Nedra Rodrigo, and Heather Cleary!

Join us on 1/20/26 at 5 PM ET!

Free sign-ups: www.eventbrite.com/e/on-the-pol...
January 7, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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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...
I have gone mad before, so I am not afraid
i long for this ordinary apocalypse, my hands still as i kneadflour, wet with oil, as i watch the yeast rise asit wants for water,there are children outside playing in the asphalt, they arethrowing me...
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January 6, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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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!
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"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.

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What Migration Will Do To You
This is the most she has ever said about the year she left. (I pointto what I can’t say.) And, to complete the story she reminds me, this is the mostshe’s ever told me. This December, she ...
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December 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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I am the only person who can tell the story / of my departure
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"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...
What Migration Will Do To You
This is the most she has ever said about the year she left. (I pointto what I can’t say.) And, to complete the story she reminds me, this is the mostshe’s ever told me. This December, she ...
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December 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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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!
December 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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"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...
What Migration Will Do To You
This is the most she has ever said about the year she left. (I pointto what I can’t say.) And, to complete the story she reminds me, this is the mostshe’s ever told me. This December, she ...
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December 16, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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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."

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Again: The Wretched of the Earth
This essay marks the beginning of a new column for Adi Magazine called
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December 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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"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.

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Ghazal for the Dispossessed Republics
There are names they never let bloom: not in maps, not in marrow—cartographies erased by teeth, tongues chewed into hollow.My grandfather spat fire in a dialect they jailed. He taught meto write freed...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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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
On Making Work into Play: Leila Chatti on Wildness Before Something Sublime
In Winter 2022, I was lucky enough to be part of Leila Chatti’s Tin House workshop for poetry. At the end of our one-on-one session, she told me she wasn’t sure if she could conceive of a book for her...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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"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!

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The River of Birds
He who leaves, takes his memory,  his way of being river, of being air,  of being goodbye and never. Love, Rosario Castellanos When Josefa heard that bird camouflaged among the trunks, she reme...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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"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!

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Islands in the Sky
Everywhere I go, spiders seem to find me. If not spiders then their webs, clingy strings meant to capture prey or capture your attention. Something about spiders’ craftiness, their art of living, the ...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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“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...
Dawn and Her Brother’s Ghost
The ghosts have learned how to whistle. You can hear their lips pressed into the cracks of the floorboards. The sound reminds you of when you would pin a blade of grass between your baby thumbs and…
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November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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"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!

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And So I Roar: Abi Daré on Storytelling, Survival, and the Climate Crisis in Nigeria
In Lagos, the rains don’t just arrive; they declare themselves. Sheets of water pour from the sky drumming on rooftops, spilling into streets, folding traffic into a slow-moving blur. For many Nigeria...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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"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!

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Bridge Gringo
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November 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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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...
Asterism
In the forest of our quarrels lies the future
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November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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"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!

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Queer Ecology
While admiring the bounty of tomatoes in Q and M’s garden,we’re visited by crows. There are two, which makes it a murder.Q says that’s sick, sick itself a word inverted like a dogbelly-up in the grass...
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November 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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"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!

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Ten Days in the Tall Trees
Water called out to meeach mouth a lush bluegarden, window, a warning:The rooftop is the worst.Sight is nothing but an opportunityto become the mountain’sbruised heads disru...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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"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 😍
November 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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"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!

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The Sweetness of the Imperfect Struggle
In early 2023, I decided to move back to southern Brazil from Germany, where I had lived for five years. I then came back to my parents’ small farm in Paraná, in our town’s Landless Workers’ Movement ...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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"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...
Dawn and Her Brother’s Ghost
The ghosts have learned how to whistle. You can hear their lips pressed into the cracks of the floorboards. The sound reminds you of when you would pin a blade of grass between your baby thumbs and bl...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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#FF It’s Kangaroo Awareness Day! To celebrate, give ❤️ and a follow to these publications in the lit community beginning with “K” & “A”!
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October 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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"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.

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Tilting at Windmills
It’s the beginning of the semester, and fifteen of my students, from all over the country—also one from China and another from Korea—sit in a small bungalow trailer situated in the parking lot of a bu...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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"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!

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Twenty Questions
The youngsters from the adjacent berth playing the twenty questions game had gotten off at the Mughal Sarai Junction, and the Rajdhani Express was speeding into the ever-growing night to Delhi. The ma...
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October 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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"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...
On Making Work into Play: Leila Chatti on Wildness Before Something Sublime
In Winter 2022, I was lucky enough to be part of Leila Chatti’s Tin House workshop for poetry. At the end of our one-on-one session, she told me she wasn’t sure if she could conceive of a book for her...
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October 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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and here's a snippet of what she said when i asked about the angels
While the creative practices of the “Divine” and “Oracle” sections involved my awareness and intention, the angels came as a surprise! In Deluge, I have a poem called “Angel” that was the first “night poem” I ever wrote, though I didn’t have a name for that process at the time. The poem begins: “After a month of asking, suddenly, a voice.” There’s been this need in me for many years now, as long as I can remember, for something beyond to speak to me, and I am listening for it all the time. I remember feeling very silly as a child, standing next to the ocean waiting for some sign, a single word. To tell me what? I didn’t know. I don’t know. But I knew to hear it would change me. And so I kept returning to the places that felt, to me, sacred—the sea, the night, the page. That desire for a voice to tell me something is at the core of this book. And angels are messengers—that’s the root of the word, in most of the languages that speak of them. My original notions of a voice visiting me came from my faith, in the form of angels. In Islam, angels are a bit more present, more commonplace, than in Christianity; I mean, we believe there are angels assigned to always be with us. And they’re important—it’s one of the six pillars of faith, belief in angels, second only to belief in God! In Islam, angels are not so antiquated. You might encounter one going about your day, and you wouldn’t be considered crazy. I’m sure their presence in the poems comes from these concurrent associations in my subconscious mind: angels as symbols of faith, of writing, of messages, and of madness. Angels are also made of light, and this is a book interested in shadow, and in opposites. They are figures of reason and the mind. They can only ever follow rules.
October 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM