"Having now started over many times myself, I know that the more you move from one home to another, the easier it gets to shed your most treasured objects and all they represent..." "Heirlooms" by Ruxandra Guidi, is out on the Adi site today! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/hei...

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I keep letters and photos from past lives inside a small cardboard box. So does my mom. A little over a decade ago, when she retired, left the U.S., and

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"I am sad / to the point where sadness can go no further—/not a single drop left." New poetry in translation today from Maya abu al-Hayyat, trans. by Badar Salem. Read "She Painted My Nails Red as I Wept" here: adimagazine.com/articles/she...

She Painted My Nails Red as I Wept - Adi Magazine

I am sadto the point where sadness can go no further—not a single drop left.It is purely physical really.Ask a sponge.This certainty came to mewhen my

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Find your next favorite writers in our roundup of the latest issues out from lit mags! www.clmp.org/news/august-...

August 2026 Roundup of Member Magazines - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

We’re proud to share this list of literary journals—all members of CLMP—publishing new poetry, fiction, nonfiction, artwork, and more in August 2026.     Adi Magazine | August 2026 Featuring poetry…

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"I wondered if this, too, was a kind of discipline—the quieting of rage, the smoothing over of rupture..." The latest Again column is out today! Returning contributor Liane Al Ghusain shares why she returns again to PHYSICIANS OF THE HEART. READ: adimagazine.com/articles/aga...

Again: Physicians of the Heart - Adi Magazine

I write this while my toddler naps, splayed out innocently in deep sleep. We were playing outside when we heard the explosion. Missiles intercepted in the

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Each week, BotN randomly selects a journal from the previous year's Participating Journals list to highlight on social media. Check out @adimagazine.bsky.social

Adi is hiring a nonfiction editor! Check out our listing on Submittable and apply to work with our team. adimagazine.submittable.com/submit

"What is yours to eat? What is yours to cultivate? What is yours to burn to make room for new growth?" Experience "Cosmic Anarchy" by Malachi Lily, Adi's latest graphic essay! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/cos...

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"Even when you’re writing about something happening in the present, there’s always a historical thread behind it." Cindy Julia Tobing interviews Leila S. Chudori, author of THE SEA SPEAKS HIS NAME (Laut Bercerita) on grief and collective memory in Indonesia. adimagazine.com/articles/the...

The Sea Speaks His Name: Leila S. Chudori on Grief, Collective Memory, and a Curious Generation - Adi Magazine

In the months leading up to President Soeharto’s resignation in May 1998 after more than three decades of authoritarian rule, Indonesia was gripped by a

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We're thrilled to share 2 poems excerpted from heidi andrea restrepo rhodes' AMPERSAND ORGAN, out today from @milkweededitions.bsky.social! Art by Jinhwa Jang. Read the poems below + check out the Milkweed page for info on how to get your copy of AMPERSAND ORGAN! adimagazine.com/articles/two...

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Permission credit: heidi andrea restrepo rhodes, “& you spill me out to fill me with light” and “& in the books of sadnesses” from Ampersand

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"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!

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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...

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...

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“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...

Da Skin Suit - Adi Magazine

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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