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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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"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!

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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
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spoke with leila chatti about her new collection 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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October 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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"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.
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صبر saber
If another person asks me about what do I think is the solution to the “conflict”I’ll tell them about the cacti who knows the hands picking its prickly fruitthe cacti ...
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October 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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"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."

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A Lullaby for Gaza
report: 70% of Gaza land designated as security zone an engine haunts my body— one hand iron, one leg machine. it drags itself through the alleys of my ribs. do you smell flesh? taste bloo...
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October 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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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 🇸🇩
In the cracks between my teeth, where my prayers take shape. In the hollow of my palms, where they are answered. FATIMA ABDULLAHI Fatima Abdullahi is a writer across genres She won the 2025 Isele Poetry Prize, placed second in the 2023 Dreamfoundry Emerging Writer's Contest, and was runner up in the 2023 Valiant Scribe Poetry Competition. She was also one of the five winners of the Abebi Afro-nonfiction Award for her essay "Roots." Her carefully crafted works have appeared in several literary spaces, including: Dark Matter Magazine, Augur Magazine, Midnight & Indigo, Isele Magazine & Lolwe, among others. She stands for truth and freedom from oppression, and is a staunch advocate of the Palestinian cause.
October 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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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
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Letter to the Deity Who Told Me Arriving Here Is Difficult as Welcome
I love you / even though what I know of exile / living also includes joy.
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October 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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"Where Do You Go When the Genocide is Too Loud?" asks Fatima Abdullahi in this new poem, out today from Adi.

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Where Do You Go When the Genocide is Too Loud?
In the cracksbetweenmy teeth, wheremy prayerstake shape.In the hollowof my palms, wherethey are answered.
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October 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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“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...
World Without End
On Christmas Day, my family and I wrapped our warm bodies against the arbitrary demarcations of the Canada-U.S. border. Mom, Dad, Ate Han, Mamita, and I were on the American side, and Tito Ben, Tita…
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October 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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"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!

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To Write is to Serve the People: A Conversation with Faye Cura of Gantala Press
In 2016, when former President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines—who is now being prosecuted at the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity during his war on drugs—launched a period ...
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September 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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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! ♥
September 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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"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!

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above from below
above from below. below from above.  who convinces us that our destiny is unchanging?  that we are born with fates, fixed and borrowed from the stars? ... The ocean does not churn milk from salt fo...
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September 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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“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...
Read Me in Atmosphere
Editor's note: due to formatting, this piece is best viewed on desktop. With great prosperity came great suffering in NATION.People were either born into prosperity or suffering, and sometimes in…
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September 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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"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!

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Perseverance
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September 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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"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...
The Year My Sister Became a Border
In a small, state-funded maternity ward where solar light flickered and rust crept like ivy along the windowsills, my mother was given precisely sixty seconds to decide which of her newborns would liv...
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September 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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"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!

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A Dark Stain on the House: Fifteen Landays
The landay is a poetic form traditionally developed by Pashtun women in Afghanistan; it is a part of their rich oral tradition. The word “landay” in Pashto translates as “little poisonous snake,” a me...
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August 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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"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)!

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A Choral Response to Disaster: Mónica-Ramón Ríos interviews Giannina Braschi on Putinoika
In 2024, Puerto Rican writer and longtime New York resident Giannina Braschi published her fourth novel, Putinoika (Flowersong Press, 2024), a book that seems almost impossible to describe. When a col...
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August 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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“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...
Two Poems
You’ve demolished my homes in your hubris
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August 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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"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.

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Read Me in Atmosphere
Editor's note: due to formatting, this piece is best viewed on desktop. With great prosperity came great suffering in NATION.People were either born into prosperity or suffering, and sometimes ...
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August 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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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:
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Solastalgia
translated by Alison Entrekin Mars is closer to Earth precisely today 56 million kilometers a glowing red dot we’d say a star from here from this other dot where fireflies survive precisely today the…
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August 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM