“'Data wants to flow,' he says,/and we’re used to things like that:/urine, time,/ lava.” Read Rae Armantrout’s poem "What Data Wants" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

Issue Fifty-Eight is here, bringing a vibrant batch of poetry, prose, interviews, and artwork to the fore!🦩 Start reading here: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

“Death is a god/damned thief.” We're revisiting standout work from our archives. Read Patrick Phillips’s poem "The Leash" in Issue Forty: theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-...

"Maybe the love poem is my own version of our story, of who and what and how we are." We're revisiting standout conversations from our archives. Read Abigail McFee's interview of Natalie Diaz in Issue Thirty-Two: theadroitjournal.org/issue-thirty...

“the vegetation’s overtaking/is that complete. How it/shags the machinery/into the abstract.” We're revisiting standout works from the archives. Read David Hernandez’s poem "Buried" in Issue Thirty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-thirty...

A close-up of Cami DuMay's "Love at Any Cost" from Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

"From the cat’s mouth, I pulled a mouse./Its eye a punctured planet,/a pink foam, and its chest so fast." Read Quinn Franzen's poem "The Name of Action" in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

"Time turned back. Said, Leave her be. Her life is,/As it once was, over, after this. It is not true/That a lily lasts only forty days. It will be/Different for different lilies." Read Darius Atefat-Peckham's Poem "After Forty Days" in issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

"My skin is an organ of memory." Read Joan Houlihan's poem "Who Are You?" in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

"she can’t remember the plot./only that it didn’t work, only/that he prayed and prayed/it would, only they all laughed" Read Fatimah Asghar's poem "[HE MADE A MOVIE, IT WAS A FLOP]" in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

Submissions are open for the 2026 Editor’s Prizes in Poetry & Fiction! Learn more & submit here by July 31: theadroitjournal.org/editors-priz...

"I know I’m in my father’s blazer, nestled/near his heart, where he keeps his phone" Read James Davis May’s poem "Pocket Dial" in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

A close-up of Brandon Downing's "The Americans XXVII" from Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

"The moment it became clear this would become a story of endings/All the okra at the top of the stalks were stiff fingers reaching for God" Read Acie Clark’s “Everyone Standing at Their Windows Said We Needed That” in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

A close-up of Najib Joe Hakim's photograph "Amira" from Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

“Runteldat if blkness ever tips extinct–epitaph/on reel-repeat.” Read Kyle G. Dargan’s poem "Slavery was the World's First Nuclear Bomb" in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

“The storm reached Jacksonville long after the newscasters said it would.” Read Bethany Bruno’s short story "Buried" in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

"your mada wen tell you make sure you get two cases SPAM, because we gotta make musubis" Read Melissa Llanes Brownlee's “Coupons They Let You Take a Rain Check On at Taniguchi’s” in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

A close-up of Evelyn Yu's photo "Moving On" from Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

“We sip craft beers/in the shadow of the old opium den/t-shirts for sale/a wall of grinning gone faces/framed and hung” Read Jade Cho’s "Asian American Historic District" in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

“The house has many doors. They stretch behind me—like a hallway of dark mirrors. At my feet, a little terror I call my pet.” Read Nina C. Peláez’s "Birthday: Haibun" in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

This Thursday via Zoom: Help us celebrate the past, present, and future of Adroit's Summer Mentorship Program!

Thirteen Years of Mentorship: An Adroit Reading & Celebration

Hear work from the Summer Mentorship Program community and help us celebrate the launch of the Peter LaBerge Scholarship Fund.

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“Before the fire—before the night I will be born—the boy wakes up to his father, knocking on the door of his room.” Read Persimmon Tobing’s "Roleplay" in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

“In her journal, Frida Kahlo wrote Yo soy la desintegración./She used ser versus estar to signify forever.” Read Mary Robles’ poem, "It Rains Nails, It Rains Sun" in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

A close-up of Brianna Jiang's painting "Train Bleu" from Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

"Sometimes the most intimate thing is the struggle or inability to communicate something." Read the full interview with Derrick Austin in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

“In Rwanda, as in the rest of the world, Misfortune ceaselessly weaves the fabric of human life.” Read Scholastique Mukasonga's "Misfortune," translated by Mark Polizzotti, in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

Courtney Bill’s “Kimberlite” moves through the frozen distances between people. Read the full story in Issue Fifty-Seven through the link in our bio.

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.