Jori Lewis
@jorilewis.bsky.social
Author of Slaves for Peanuts. Editor @adi_magazine .
So looking forward to this one!
Adi Magazine@adimagazine.bsky.social · 2w agoIt'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...
"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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New event! 📆12th May 🕖7pm Eastern @adimagazine.bsky.social hold online panel "Confronting Structures of Censorship" featuring Ruxandra Guidi, @kirstenhan.com, Rania Mamoun & @jankcurbelo.bsky.social Details: www.eventbrite.com/e/confrontin...
Adi Magazine@adimagazine.bsky.social · 4mo agoJoin Adi for our virtual panel,"Confronting Structures of Censorship" on May 12 at 7 PM ET! We'll be featuring @kirstenhan.com, Rania Mamoun and Jesús Jank Curbelo, in conversation with Adi's nonfiction editor, Ruxandra Guidi. Free registration is available here: www.eventbrite.com/e/confrontin...
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...
Finally, a cover! And soon, a book! A Natural History of the Spirits offers profound meditations on the history of colonialism, racism, and social and ecological change. Coming to stores November 10! Pre-order here: bookshop.org/p/books/a-na...
"The burial rituals that accompanied my father’s death have been systematically denied to the people of Gaza." "The Horizon Remains Out of Reach" by Bayan Haddad is out today on the Adi website, with by art by Larissa Ribeiro. READ: adimagazine.com/articles/the...
The Horizon Remains Out of Reach - Adi Magazine
My father, Waddah, was a man of versatile talents. He was an avid reader, an eloquent writer, a skilled chef, and a gifted laboratory technician. We still
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Adi Magazine events alerts! Tomorrow, 3/5, in Baltimore at #awp2026: our panel "Global Words in a Time of Crisis" w/ Guernica & @asterixjournal.bsky.social! And looking ahead, our online Again Book Club with Anna Badkhen on WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS is on 4/7: www.eventbrite.com/e/again-book...
"When I say Yafa, a yacht sails between my fingers, and into my words a crescent moon falls." Three new poems by Heba Abunada, translated with commentary from Huda J. Fakhreddine, are live on the Adi site today! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/all...
All the Others Have Won Their Wars: Three Poems by Heba Abunada - Adi Magazine
O! How alone we are! All the others have won their wars and you were left in your mud, barren. Darwish, don’t you know? No poetry will return to the
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Surprise! Adi has a new website 💜🧡 we're so pleased to share our new site is up and running, with new colors, better search navigation, and a design that better showcases our amazing contributors and illustrators. Go check out our latest pieces at adimagazine.com!
New essay alert! Check out @torsa.bsky.social's essay, "River Humanism," which meditates on bauls, wandering musicians from West Bengal, India, and Bangladesh, and their philosophy of movement. READ: adimagazine.com/articles/riv...
River Humanism
Taking a walk near home, no one expects to find a dead man in a corn field. When my neighbor here in Northern California did, he called 911 first and then uploaded the corpse’s photo to our housing co...
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The second installment of Adi's new "Again" column is live today! Myriam J. A. Chancy reflects on the book "Crossing the Mangrove" by Maryse Condé! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/aga...
Again: Crossing the Mangrove
How do we return to the same texts for inspiration, for teaching? Such returns, at times, feel tedious. I will admit that even when not engaged in revisiting texts, I'm often bored, making rereads eve...
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We're thrilled to share the essay "To Translate is to Resist" by Nedra Rodrigo, excerpted from TAMIL TERRAINS (@tracepress.bsky.social, November 2025) with artwork by Kaya Joan! Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/to-...
To Translate is to Resist
I could not enter the practice of translation feigning ignorance of the myriad ways in which translation has served as a tool of surveillance, categorization, and suppression. As much as translation h...
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"i have dreamt it before, this terrible reckoning, this gaping..." Adi's first publication of the year is here! Asmaa Jama's poem "I have gone mad before, so I am not afraid" is live today, with art by Kaya Joan. Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/i-h...
I have gone mad before, so I am not afraid
i long for this ordinary apocalypse, my hands still as i kneadflour, wet with oil, as i watch the yeast rise asit wants for water,there are children outside playing in the asphalt, they arethrowing me...
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A little bit late to sharing this, but Adi is so proud to have nominated the following wonderful writers for a Pushcart Prize earlier this month. Congrats to Rania Mamoun, Alaa Alqaisi, Sharon Aruparayil, Tarfa Benson, @jezzbah.bsky.social, and Malak Hijazi!
"There are names they never let bloom: not in maps, not in marrow— / cartographies erased by teeth, tongues chewed into hollow." There's a new poem, "Ghazal for the Dispossessed Republics" by Avril Shakira Villar on the Adi site! Art by Larissa Ribeiro. READ: adimagazine.com/articles/gha...
Ghazal for the Dispossessed Republics
There are names they never let bloom: not in maps, not in marrow—cartographies erased by teeth, tongues chewed into hollow.My grandfather spat fire in a dialect they jailed. He taught meto write freed...
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NEW COLUMN ALERT! The Again column provides a space reflect on a text the author returns to again and again, and we're thrilled that Adi's publisher Nimmi Gowrinathan kicked us off with Frantz Fanon in "Again: The Wretched of the Earth." READ: adimagazine.com/articles/aga...
Again: The Wretched of the Earth
This essay marks the beginning of a new column for Adi Magazine called
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"When Josefa heard that bird camouflaged among the trunks, she remembered when mother had run away from home." New fiction, "The River of Birds" by Quya Reyna, translated by Andree Michelle Viladegut Peñaranda is live today on Adi's website! Read: adimagazine.com/articles/the...
The River of Birds
He who leaves, takes his memory, his way of being river, of being air, of being goodbye and never. Love, Rosario Castellanos When Josefa heard that bird camouflaged among the trunks, she reme...
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"As some of the oldest creatures on land, it makes sense that spiders are often part of our origin stories." A new essay, "Islands in the Sky" by Ashia S. Ajani, is live today on the Adi website! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/isl...
Islands in the Sky
Everywhere I go, spiders seem to find me. If not spiders then their webs, clingy strings meant to capture prey or capture your attention. Something about spiders’ craftiness, their art of living, the ...
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"There is an age-old question about who came first: the River or the People? The answer you get depends on who you ask." Innocent Chizaram Ilo's short story "Bridge Gringo" is live on the Adi site today, with stunning art by our new illustrator, Jinhwa Jang! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/bri...
Bridge Gringo
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"What a wonder, what a word, almost wander, as in through a luminous forest of dreams, almost window, a sly peephole into forever..." Natalie Wee's poem "Queer Ecology" is up on the Adi site this week, with art by Herikita! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/que...
Queer Ecology
While admiring the bounty of tomatoes in Q and M’s garden,we’re visited by crows. There are two, which makes it a murder.Q says that’s sick, sick itself a word inverted like a dogbelly-up in the grass...
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"Language is where I grew less small light streaming through the gaps between my fingers..." New poetry up today on the Adi website! We're thrilled to share Ezza Ahmed's "Ten Days in the Tall Trees," with art by Larissa Ribeiro! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/ten...
Ten Days in the Tall Trees
Water called out to meeach mouth a lush bluegarden, window, a warning:The rooftop is the worst.Sight is nothing but an opportunityto become the mountain’sbruised heads disru...
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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! adimagazine.com/articles/the...
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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"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. Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/sab...
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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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! ♥
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 🇸🇩
Adi Magazine@adimagazine.bsky.social · 10mo ago"Where Do You Go When the Genocide is Too Loud?" asks Fatima Abdullahi in this new poem, out today from Adi. READ: adimagazine.com/articles/whe...