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David Roderick
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Author of Blue Colonial, The Americans, and the forthcoming Darkness for Beginners (Spring, 2027). Director of Left Margin LIT. Director of Content at The Adroit Journal. Old Man Basketball Commissioner. www.davidroderick.com
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Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social: Michael Costaris's interviews fiction writer @evgeniyadame.bsky.social about her story "Mother, Tongue" in our most recent issue.

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Writing from Innocence: A Conversation with Evgeniya Dame
Evgeniya Dame’s “Mother, Tongue” follows two women navigating a teacher’s training college in Samara, Russia. Language sits at the forefront of the story, less a subject of study for its narrator t…
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February 4, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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Read @adroitjournal.bsky.social's Larry Levis project with essays by David St. John, @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social, James Ciano, @lizajohnson1.bsky.social, Jon Pineda, @sharalessley.bsky.social, @cubistoctopus.bsky.social, @nxo.bsky.social, @megg-bean.bsky.social.

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Issue Fifty-Six
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January 29, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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Check out today's blog post @adroitjournal.bsky.social, an excerpt from Grant Faulkner and Gail Butensky's SOMETHING OUT THERE IN THE DISTANCE.

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From Grant Faulkner and Gail Butensky’s something out there in the distance
“How do you describe a person?” How do you describe a person? Is it their smell, the rhythm of their breaths? The way they pinch their lips without even knowing it, the crimp of their brow? …
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January 7, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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Livia Meneghin reviews @gabbat.bsky.social's THE NEW ECONOMY today @adroitjournal.bsky.social, calling it "a portal of hauntings and extraordinary song, summoning readers to have courage amidst their own sorrows."

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A Review of Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s The New Economy
Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s The New Economy, published by Copper Canyon Press in October 2025, is a portal of hauntings and extraordinary song, summoning readers to have courage amidst their own sorro…
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January 5, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social: Adrian Lue reviews Lana Lin's THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM, just out from @dorothyproject.bsky.social.

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A Review of Lana Lin’s The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam
My copy of Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas features two portraits on its cover. The first, depicting a sepia-toned Stein with her famous cropped haircut, takes up over half th…
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December 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Today on @adroitjournal.bsky.social's blog: Abby Lacelle reviews Olga Ravn's third book, THE WAX CHILD. New Directions published the novel in September.

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A Review of Olga Ravn’s The Wax Child
Musk and petrichor waft from the pages of Olga Ravn’s third novel, The Wax Child. The novel details the tragedy of 17th-century Danish women condemned for witchcraft, as told in first-p…
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November 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social: Mike Good interviews Varun Ravindran, whose debut, BETWEENNESS, was just published by Baobab Press.

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A Conversation with Varun Ravindran
This interview took place in a courtyard outside of Varun’s Pittsburgh apartment on a summer evening in July. The sound of cicadas, crows, and blue jays called out during our conversation. Varun an…
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November 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Katy Dycus reviews Faroese poet Kim Simonsen’s WHAT GOOD DOES IT DO FOR A PERSON TO WAKE UP ONE MORNING THIS SIDE OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM today @adroitjournal.bsky.social.

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A Review of Kim Simonsen’s What good does it do for a person to wake up one morning this side of the new millennium
In What good does it do for a person to wake up one morning this side of the new millennium, Faroese poet Kim Simonsen suggests we have the opportunity to encounter the universe in every person: “T…
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November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social: @poetryphone.bsky.social interviews @theoceanisgay.bsky.social about their new book just out from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social, LET THE MOON WOBBLE.

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A Conversation with Ally Ang
Ally Ang is a gaysian poet & editor based in Seattle. Their work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, The Seattle Met, and elsewhere. Ally is a National…
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November 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Today at @adroitjournal.bsky.social: Danielle Shi reviews Austyn Wohlers's HOTHOUSE BLOOM, out this fall from Hub City Press.

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A Review of Austyn Wohlers’s Hothouse Bloom
Austyn Wohlers’s novel Hothouse Bloom effortlessly draws the reader into a fever state of interiority, an interiority too large to be seen in its entirety. The edges of raw, unadulterated color are…
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November 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Emily Mitchell's THE CHURCH OF DIVINE ELECTRICITY reviewed today @adroitjournal.bsky.social. Many thanks to @allisonwyss.bsky.social for this smart critical piece.

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A Conversation with Emily Mitchell
Emily Mitchell is the author of The Last Summer of the World (W. W. Norton), a novel, and two collections of short stories: Viral (W. W. Norton, 2015); and The Church of Divine Electricity, winner …
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November 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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We've got lots more great reading in @adroitjournal.bsky.social #55, which launched yesterday. Here's a conversation with Spencer Reece conducted by Kimberley Grey. Spencer's most recent book of poems is ACTS, from @fsgbooks.bsky.social.

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A Conversation with Spencer Reece
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October 31, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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More from @adroitjournal.bsky.social's 55th issue: @rbjrichardson.bsky.social interviews Aracelis Girmay.

"When I was in June Jordan’s archives, over a decade ago now, I found several loose sheets of paper where she was working on a revision..."

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A Conversation with Aracelis Girmay
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October 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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And here's Colby Cotton's @adroitjournal.bsky.social interview with poet Bobby Elliott. His new book is THE SAME MAN, just out from the University of Pittsburgh Press.

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A Conversation with Bobby Elliott
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October 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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@adroitjournal.bsky.social Issue #55 is out! Check out Lisa Russ Spaar's new column and interviews with Aracelis Girmay, Spencer Reece, Teresa Dzieglewicz, and Bobby Elliott. AND: we've got a fantastic interview with Rita Dove.

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You Have to Be Ferocious: A Conversation with Rita Dove
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October 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM