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Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social · Jul 25
"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers."

—Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social

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Beneath the Howl of Hunger
“And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain.” – Alaa Alqaisi
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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!

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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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November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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“The ghosts have learned how to whistle. You can hear their lips pressed into the cracks of the floorboards.”

Read “Dawn and Her Brother’s Ghost” by Jess Masi in @adimagazine.bsky.social this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth! adimagazine.com/articles/daw...
Dawn and Her Brother’s Ghost
The ghosts have learned how to whistle. You can hear their lips pressed into the cracks of the floorboards. The sound reminds you of when you would pin a blade of grass between your baby thumbs and…
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November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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"I resist the idea that writing about suffering and imagining new worlds are separate things. Often they happen together."

New interview today with Abi Daré and Kehinde Adepetun on Daré's award-winning novel AND SO I ROAR!

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And So I Roar: Abi Daré on Storytelling, Survival, and the Climate Crisis in Nigeria
In Lagos, the rains don’t just arrive; they declare themselves. Sheets of water pour from the sky drumming on rooftops, spilling into streets, folding traffic into a slow-moving blur. For many Nigeria...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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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!

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Bridge Gringo
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November 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Were we an echo of an invented people
who left in our wake as we fled from each other
belts of precious metals, pigment, spice…

Read Jennifer Elise Foerster’s poem “Asterism” in @adimagazine.bsky.social! #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth adimagazine.com/articles/ast...
Asterism
In the forest of our quarrels lies the future
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November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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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!

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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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November 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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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!

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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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November 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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"Before history is crystallized in textbooks, it is lived and made out of small steps. Some of those steps are bound to be in the wrong direction. Still, all of them matter."
(Carolina Simionato)

Loved reading this essay 😍
November 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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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!

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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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November 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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"The ghosts have learned how to whistle..."

Sharing one of our most ghostly pieces today for Halloween! Read Jess Masi's short story "Dawn and Her Brother's Ghost" here: adimagazine.com/articles/daw...
Dawn and Her Brother’s Ghost
The ghosts have learned how to whistle. You can hear their lips pressed into the cracks of the floorboards. The sound reminds you of when you would pin a blade of grass between your baby thumbs and bl...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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#FF It’s Kangaroo Awareness Day! To celebrate, give ❤️ and a follow to these publications in the lit community beginning with “K” & “A”!
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October 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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"It’s in the fissures, and the resistance, the all around mess where the real learning takes place."

@melissachadburn.bsky.social's essay "Tilting at Windmills," about day laborers in LA County, activism, and academia, is out today from Adi.

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Tilting at Windmills
It’s the beginning of the semester, and fifteen of my students, from all over the country—also one from China and another from Korea—sit in a small bungalow trailer situated in the parking lot of a bu...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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"Mr. Pal was lost in thoughts that flashed through his mind like the small islands of light in the sea of darkness outside his window."

Shigraf Zabhi's short story "Twenty Questions" about train trips, memory, and yearning is up today on the Adi website!

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Twenty Questions
The youngsters from the adjacent berth playing the twenty questions game had gotten off at the Mughal Sarai Junction, and the Rajdhani Express was speeding into the ever-growing night to Delhi. The ma...
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October 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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"I believe the poem will always lead me where I need to go."

@summ.bsky.social interviews Leila Chatti about poetry as play and her new book WILDNESS BEFORE SOMETHING SUBLIME (@coppercanyonpress.bsky.social). Their conversation is now out on the website!

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On Making Work into Play: Leila Chatti on Wildness Before Something Sublime
In Winter 2022, I was lucky enough to be part of Leila Chatti’s Tin House workshop for poetry. At the end of our one-on-one session, she told me she wasn’t sure if she could conceive of a book for her...
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October 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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and here's a snippet of what she said when i asked about the angels
While the creative practices of the “Divine” and “Oracle” sections involved my awareness and intention, the angels came as a surprise! In Deluge, I have a poem called “Angel” that was the first “night poem” I ever wrote, though I didn’t have a name for that process at the time. The poem begins: “After a month of asking, suddenly, a voice.” There’s been this need in me for many years now, as long as I can remember, for something beyond to speak to me, and I am listening for it all the time. I remember feeling very silly as a child, standing next to the ocean waiting for some sign, a single word. To tell me what? I didn’t know. I don’t know. But I knew to hear it would change me. And so I kept returning to the places that felt, to me, sacred—the sea, the night, the page. That desire for a voice to tell me something is at the core of this book. And angels are messengers—that’s the root of the word, in most of the languages that speak of them. My original notions of a voice visiting me came from my faith, in the form of angels. In Islam, angels are a bit more present, more commonplace, than in Christianity; I mean, we believe there are angels assigned to always be with us. And they’re important—it’s one of the six pillars of faith, belief in angels, second only to belief in God! In Islam, angels are not so antiquated. You might encounter one going about your day, and you wouldn’t be considered crazy. I’m sure their presence in the poems comes from these concurrent associations in my subconscious mind: angels as symbols of faith, of writing, of messages, and of madness. Angels are also made of light, and this is a book interested in shadow, and in opposites. They are figures of reason and the mind. They can only ever follow rules.
October 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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spoke with leila chatti about her new collection for @adimagazine.bsky.social 💙
On Making Work into Play: Leila Chatti on Wildness Before Something Sublime
In Winter 2022, I was lucky enough to be part of Leila Chatti’s Tin House workshop for poetry. At the end of our one-on-one session, she told me she wasn’t sure if she could conceive of a book for her...
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October 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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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.
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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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October 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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"write my name—
Malak.
not: “female, age unknown.”
not: “Gazan civilian in a blue plastic bag."
write it today,
tomorrow,
again—
until metaphor
is no longer a metaphor."

Malak Hijazi writes from Gaza in this new poem from Adi, "A Lullaby for Gaza."

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A Lullaby for Gaza
report: 70% of Gaza land designated as security zone an engine haunts my body— one hand iron, one leg machine. it drags itself through the alleys of my ribs. do you smell flesh? taste bloo...
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October 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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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 🇸🇩
In the cracks between my teeth, where my prayers take shape. In the hollow of my palms, where they are answered. FATIMA ABDULLAHI Fatima Abdullahi is a writer across genres She won the 2025 Isele Poetry Prize, placed second in the 2023 Dreamfoundry Emerging Writer's Contest, and was runner up in the 2023 Valiant Scribe Poetry Competition. She was also one of the five winners of the Abebi Afro-nonfiction Award for her essay "Roots." Her carefully crafted works have appeared in several literary spaces, including: Dark Matter Magazine, Augur Magazine, Midnight & Indigo, Isele Magazine & Lolwe, among others. She stands for truth and freedom from oppression, and is a staunch advocate of the Palestinian cause.
October 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Dear Kabunian, I love you even though you gave your buhay to our bodies,
even though you shaped us from the soup…

—Hari Alluri’s “Letter to the Deity Who Told Me Arriving Here Is Difficult as Welcome” in @adimagazine.bsky.social #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth
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Letter to the Deity Who Told Me Arriving Here Is Difficult as Welcome
I love you / even though what I know of exile / living also includes joy.
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October 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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"Where Do You Go When the Genocide is Too Loud?" asks Fatima Abdullahi in this new poem, out today from Adi.

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Where Do You Go When the Genocide is Too Loud?
In the cracksbetweenmy teeth, wheremy prayerstake shape.In the hollowof my palms, wherethey are answered.
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October 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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“On Christmas Day, my family and I wrapped our warm bodies against the arbitrary demarcations of the Canada-U.S. border.”

Read Hannah Keziah Agustin’s essay “World Without End” in @adimagazine.bsky.social #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth adimagazine.com/articles/wor...
World Without End
On Christmas Day, my family and I wrapped our warm bodies against the arbitrary demarcations of the Canada-U.S. border. Mom, Dad, Ate Han, Mamita, and I were on the American side, and Tito Ben, Tita…
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October 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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"Literature can document stories related to the struggle—not just the hardship people face, but also how they achieve victory when they continue to resist."

Tristan James Biglete interviews Faye Cura of Gantala Press in the Philippines!

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To Write is to Serve the People: A Conversation with Faye Cura of Gantala Press
In 2016, when former President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines—who is now being prosecuted at the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity during his war on drugs—launched a period ...
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September 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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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! ♥
September 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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"above from below. below from above.
who convinces us that our destiny is unchanging?"

Read angel bista's dreamy hybrid fiction, out today on the website!

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above from below
above from below. below from above.  who convinces us that our destiny is unchanging?  that we are born with fates, fixed and borrowed from the stars? ... The ocean does not churn milk from salt fo...
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September 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM