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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

Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...

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

Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social · 1d

"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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Fatima (Free 🇵🇸) @fatii-tii.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 4d

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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Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social · 5d

"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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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 6d

“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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Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social · 8d

"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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Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social · 12d

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! ♥

Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social · 15d

"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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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 16d

“With great prosperity came great suffering in NATION. People were either born into prosperity or suffering, and sometimes in between.”

Find Melina Casados’s “Read Me in Atmosphere” in @adimagazine.bsky.social! #HispanicHeritageMonth adimagazine.com/articles/rea...

Read Me in Atmosphere

Editor's note: due to formatting, this piece is best viewed on desktop. With great prosperity came great suffering in NATION.People were either born into prosperity or suffering, and sometimes in…

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Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social · 29d

"Why was the state so hard on people like mom? Why was its assistance so precarious and intermittent?"

Abby Rocha's graphic essay "Perseverance" is out today, discussing Rocha's relationship with their mother, their artistic journey, & more!

Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/per...

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Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social · Sep 2

"That was the first lesson the state taught us: that worth could be sliced between two identical bodies."

Sharon Aruparayil's story "The Year My Sister Became a Border" is published today on the Adi site!

Read this stunning piece of short fiction here: adimagazine.com/articles/the...

The Year My Sister Became a Border

In a small, state-funded maternity ward where solar light flickered and rust crept like ivy along the windowsills, my mother was given precisely sixty seconds to decide which of her newborns would liv...

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Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social · Aug 26

"At the bitter door of no return,
the life of every locked door was thrown open wide."

New poetry today: Luisa Villa Meriño's stunning landays, translated by Kim Jensen!

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A Dark Stain on the House: Fifteen Landays

The landay is a poetic form traditionally developed by Pashtun women in Afghanistan; it is a part of their rich oral tradition. The word “landay” in Pashto translates as “little poisonous snake,” a me...

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Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social · Aug 19

"Don’t live on the defense! Offend! Why would I be worried about what the white minority is thinking or reading in their comfort zone?"

Out today: a new interview w/ Mónica Ramón Ríos & @gianninabraschi.bsky.social on Braschi's book PUTINOIKA (@flowersongpress.bsky.social)!

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A Choral Response to Disaster: Mónica-Ramón Ríos interviews Giannina Braschi on Putinoika

In 2024, Puerto Rican writer and longtime New York resident Giannina Braschi published her fourth novel, Putinoika (Flowersong Press, 2024), a book that seems almost impossible to describe. When a col...

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · Aug 14

“Your names are the only language
that hold any meaning penned into the skin…”

Read two poems by Amany El-Regeb and Aiya Sakr (translated from the Arabic by Sakr), published in @adimagazine.bsky.social & featured on our #WomenInTranslationMonth reading list: adimagazine.com/articles/two...

You’ve demolished my homes in your hubris

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Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social · Aug 12

"With great prosperity came great suffering in NATION."

Part myth, part personal narrative, part poem, "Read Me in Atmosphere" by Melina Casados is live on the website today! Art by Larissa Ribeiro.

Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/rea...

Read Me in Atmosphere

Editor's note: due to formatting, this piece is best viewed on desktop. With great prosperity came great suffering in NATION.People were either born into prosperity or suffering, and sometimes ...

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · Aug 11

Mars is closer to Earth
precisely today 56 million kilometers
a glowing red dot…

—“Solastalgia” by Adriana Lisboa, translated from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin, is featured in @adimagazine.bsky.social & on our #WomenInTranslationMonth reading list:
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translated by Alison Entrekin Mars is closer to Earth precisely today 56 million kilometers a glowing red dot we’d say a star from here from this other dot where fireflies survive precisely today the…

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Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social · Aug 5

"I never expected to search for a 'female-friendly shotgun.' ...Then again, I never expected America to get this spooky."

Read Keli Dailey's fiery essay "Love Song of the Liberal Gun Owner," paired with artwork by the incredible Candice Evers.

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Love Song of the Liberal Gun Owner

I never expected to search for a “female-friendly shotgun.” Or to end up matching with a Mossberg Maverick 88: a $300, 12-gauge, pump-action made in Texas, just like me. Then again, I never expected A...

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The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 2

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Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social · Jul 29

"Star is my name. Something quiet but also an incandescence. I like that word: its sound lingers like embers floating up to the night sky."

Gabriela Jauregui's haunting short story "Citlalli" is out today from Adi!

Read the full piece here: adimagazine.com/articles/cit...

A star reflects light. It is a distant light. It is a center, surrounded. It is what surrounds the center. A celestial body. It hides. Twinkles. Star is my name. Something quiet but also an incandesce...

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Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · Jul 27

"To translate Gaza is to search not merely for the right words, but for the ears willing to receive them."
Alaa Alqaisi in The Double Life of a Palestinian Translator
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#translation #translators

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The Double Life of a Palestinian Translator

I. The Translator as a Witness to Vanishing Worlds To be a Palestinian translator is to become an intermediary between a vanishing world and one that often refuses to acknowledge its disappearance....

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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · Jul 26

Alaa's essay now published in Slovenian: jalastovka.si/pod-tuljenje...

in Greek: linkedin.com/posts/gelly-...

in Albanian: nyje.al/nen-ulerimen...

Please be in touch if you are translating.

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

Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...

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

Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social · Jul 22

"i
betrays you
you comedy
fool you
greying
ghost—"

There's a new poem by Dior J. Stephens out today at Adi!

Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/222...

222 or asyndetic

ibetrays youyou comedyfool yougreyingghost—ihides fromi’s facein mirrorsmadeshuttershut—idisassemblesi’sself insubzerooverthinkeach nighteach bit—i’s ichopped upfor parts—ilibe-rates y-ousi-debysi-de ...

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Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social · Jul 15

Adi's first graphic essay "Tiny T" by the wonderful Nasrin Sheykhi is out today on the website! Check out this essay on Nasrin's fraught immigration to the US and her subsequent "Tiny Trump" portrait.

Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/tin...

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Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social · Jul 8

"Is the world willing to hear, or are we only speaking into an echo chamber of grief?"

Read Alaa Alqaisi's devastating essay, "The Double Life of a Palestinian Translator," out today from Adi.

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The Double Life of a Palestinian Translator

I. The Translator as a Witness to Vanishing Worlds To be a Palestinian translator is to become an intermediary between a vanishing world and one that often refuses to acknowledge its disappearance....

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