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Adi is an international literary magazine rehumanizing policy. New pieces weekly! adimagazine.com
"It’s a general rule of the world that things flow downwards." We're back on our regular publishing schedule with Shigraf Zahbi's short story "Release," accompanied with art by Larissa Ribeiro! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/rel...
Release - Adi Magazine
It’s a general rule of the world that things flow downwards. I’ve been told not to let my gut do the work meant for my teeth because digestion begins in
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So looking forward to this one!
Adi Magazine@adimagazine.bsky.social · last wk.It's almost time for another Again Book Club, this time featuring @theoceanisgay.bsky.social in conversation with Ladan Osman about BLUEST NUDE by Ama Codjoe! (Perfect for your Sealey Challenge!) Register & join us for this free event on 8/11 at 7 PM ET: www.eventbrite.com/e/again-book...
August is #WomeninTranslationMonth! Celebrate with us by picking an online read (or several) from our reading list of works both written and translated by women: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...
A Reading List for Women in Translation Month 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
For Women in Translation Month, observed annually during the month of August, we asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the…
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It's almost time for another Again Book Club, this time featuring @theoceanisgay.bsky.social in conversation with Ladan Osman about BLUEST NUDE by Ama Codjoe! (Perfect for your Sealey Challenge!) Register & join us for this free event on 8/11 at 7 PM ET: www.eventbrite.com/e/again-book...
Again Book Club: Bluest Nude
Join us for a conversation about BLUEST NUDE by Ama Codjoe, with Ally Ang in conversation with Ladan Osman! Join
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Day 207! I read African Artifacts on a Shelf of Antiquities, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London by Sandra Jackson-Opoku published in @adimagazine.bsky.social. I should mostly let this one speak for itself. Still, you can read my review here: mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/2026/07/26/s...
S/D/Y Jul 26 – African Artifacts on a Shelf of Antiquities, the British Museum, Great Russell Street, London by Sandra Jackson-Opoku – Adi Magazine
Oooh, do I have any right or privilege to comment on a story like this? I shall tread carefully. I was very impressed by the opening of this story. The voice was so vibrant and alive and distinctiv…
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We’re on summer break! Submissions are closed and the magazine is on vacation. See you in August!
"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...
Rereading Mark Twain While Everything Else Burns - Adi Magazine
Coffee spilled across my bedsheets as I read the San Francisco Chronicle, my hometown paper, last June. An op-ed was denouncing the Trump administration
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"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...
Towards A Liberated Public Space - Adi Magazine
Author's note: This visual poem was developed in conversation with people who utilize the foyer of London’s Royal Festival Hall for dance practice,
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"I remember the rush I felt when I read that first line written in loud capital letters—joy, support, a bit of power. I was heard and seen." The latest Again essay is here, featuring Farah Ali's reflections on A GHOST IN THE THROAT (Biblioasis). READ: adimagazine.com/articles/aga...
Again: A Ghost in the Throat - Adi Magazine
“THIS IS A FEMALE TEXT.” This is the opening line in the first paragraph of Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s A Ghost in the Throat (Biblioasis, 2020).
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"I used to be a whole person. I think." We've got a new short story out today, "Skeevy" by LaTesha Harris! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/ske...
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Content Warning: This work contains descriptions of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and body horror that may upset and/or emotionally disturb
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Have you purchased your copy of LUCKY CREATURES by Joseph Trinidad yet? Get a sneak peek and read the excerpt on Adi Magazine (@adimagazine.bsky.social) and purchase at the link in bio.
New excerpt out today! Read Joseph Trinidad's "Da Skin Suit" on the Adi site, then run over to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social to grab a copy of LUCKY CREATURES, which is out today! Art by Kaya Joan. READ: adimagazine.com/articles/da-... BUY: www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...
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My mother’s luminous skin was screwed up in a wall of worry. “Forty-one degrees,” she told me as she packed her bag with marked test papers. “Any higher
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I also wrote about carnaval, gentrification and music for @adimagazine.bsky.social: adimagazine.com/articles/mus...
Music at the End of the World - Adi Magazine
“Anyone who wants to play their instrument can come,” a friend said to me that Friday as I drank some water at the bar with the members of the all-women’s
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"To be mortared by a place-song. This is how beauty erases beauty." We have a new poem by Sarpong Osei Asamoah live on the site today! Read "Gospel" here: adimagazine.com/articles/gos...
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Ɔkwasea na ɔsee yɛde menua na yɛnde me.—Akan, Twi proverb that translates to "it's only the unwise that say they mean my brother, not me." It's been 6am
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The Again Book Club is almost here! Have you signed up yet? It's free, and we're thrilled to welcome our fiction editor @laylamohamed.bsky.social in conversation with Melissa Chadburn on PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED by Paulo Freire! Join us 6/9 at 2 PM ET! REGISTER: www.eventbrite.com/e/again-book...
Again Book Club: Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Join us for a conversation about PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED by Paulo Freire, with Layla Mohamed
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"Playing in the street during Carnival has allowed me to detach my own self-worth from my intellectual, desk-bound work." A new essay by @nicolefroio.bsky.social, "Music at the End of the World," is live today on the Adi site! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/mus...
Music at the End of the World - Adi Magazine
“Anyone who wants to play their instrument can come,” a friend said to me that Friday as I drank some water at the bar with the members of the all-women’s
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I just got published by @adimagazine.bsky.social, where I wrote about my experiences playing in Rio de Janeiro's brass bands, and the potential utopias music brings to the streets: adimagazine.com/articles/mus...
Music at the End of the World - Adi Magazine
“Anyone who wants to play their instrument can come,” a friend said to me that Friday as I drank some water at the bar with the members of the all-women’s
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"I do not want / to be an apology for where I am from." We've got a new poem up on the Adi site today, "Black is the First Exit" by Oladosu Michael Emerald! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/bla...
Black is the First Exit - Adi Magazine
God did not ask me if I wanted to be Black.The sun just opened & I fell into my father’s fearlike it was a language. I am the boy who survivedbecause
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"In my coldest memories, there is fire. I shiver at the top of the stairs, clutching the banister and wishing my mother would stop crying." We have a new story, "All the Fire You Can Swallow," up today by Jamie McGhee, alongside art by Kaya Joan! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/all...
All the Fire You Can Swallow - Adi Magazine
In my coldest memories, there is fire. I shiver at the top of the stairs, clutching the banister and wishing my mother would stop crying. I also wish I
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One week left to submit your poetry to @adimagazine.bsky.social! The editors seek work exploring alternative political visions “that bends genres, that embraces the absurd, that excavates interior lives alongside external conflicts.” Learn more: www.clmp.org/members/open...
Heads up, there's still time to attend this event TONIGHT in Brooklyn at Community Bookstore at 7 PM featuring Adi's publisher Nimmi Gowrinathan and contributor Anna Badkhen, for the launch of Anna's new book TO SEE BEYOND! REGISTER: www.eventbrite.com/e/anna-badkh...
Anna Badkhen presents To See Beyond, with Nimmi Gowrinathan
Anna Badkhen will discuss her new book, To See Beyond, at Community Bookstore. Nimmi Gowrinathan will join her in conversation.
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We're thrilled to have a stunning graphic essay by Simone Ren, "What Piano Taught Me," out today on the Adi site! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/wha...
What Piano Taught Me - Adi Magazine
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Tues: @adimagazine.bsky.social hold online panel "Confronting Structures of Censorship" featuring @kirstenhan.com @jankcurbelo.bsky.social & more Wed: The International Network for Critical China Studies hold webinar "Academic Freedom and China" 4/
A new essay by Tehila Okagbue, "Things My Hair Remembers," is live today on the Adi site, alongside art by Kaya Joan. Read at the link below! adimagazine.com/articles/thi...
Things My Hair Remembers - Adi Magazine
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” —Audre Lorde My hair is the first historian
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"at the gates, we are addressed as chasers of mirages / skittering through rubbles of heritage..." We have a new poem by Abu Bakr Sadiq, "On an Excursion to the National Tourism Center," live today, with art by Kaya Joan! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/on-...
On an Excursion to the National Tourism Center - Adi Magazine
at the gates, we are addressed as chasers of miragesskittering through rubbles of heritage; as wakers of lifehistories long forgotten by siblings who
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Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
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Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social (Fiction Poetry Nonfiction; pays) opened to submissions https://duotrope.com/magazine/adi-magazine-33704 #amwriting
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The latest Again column is live this week! @theoceanisgay.bsky.social returns to BLUEST NUDE by Ama Codjoe (Milkweed, 2022). READ: adimagazine.com/articles/aga...
Again: Bluest Nude - Adi Magazine
To allow myself to be seen fully, to shed all masks and performance and just be, is a terrifying prospect. Some days, it is difficult to even face my
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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...
"we only communicate through shapeshifting. You control the apertures. I am at your whim." We're thrilled to share a new poem by mónica teresa ortiz to cap off National Poetry Month! Read "Prelude" here: adimagazine.com/articles/pre...
Prelude - Adi Magazine
I wake up from a dream in which you and I message back and forth.Before that, I was involved in an interstellar subplot with aliens. We meet in a backyard
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