Adi Magazine

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"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/rerea…

Doireann Ní Ghríofa's "A Ghost in the Throat" is a book I've loved since I firsf read it - (retroactive) coincidence, translation, writing, domesticity, Ireland. Thank you lovely editors at Adi. adimagazine.com/articles/again…

"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/towar…

"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/again…

"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/skeev…

New excerpt out today! Read Joseph Trinidad's "Da Skin Suit" on the Adi site, then run over to Sarabande Books to grab a copy of Joseph's essay collection LUCKY CREATURES, which is out today! Art by Kaya Joan. READ: adimagazine.com/articles/da-sk… BUY: sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p/l…

I am exceptionally thrilled to share "gospel" published by @AdiMagazine. Written in 2021 and arriving five years later, this poem of consequence embodies my raison d’être as a poet and a griot; Poetry of Consequence. adimagazine.com/articles/gospe…

gospel is place song 🙏🏾

"To be mortared by a place-song. This is how beauty erases beauty." We have a new poem by @SarpongOAsamoah live on the site today! Read "Gospel" here: adimagazine.com/articles/gospe…

The Again Book Club is almost here! Have you signed up yet? It's free, and we're thrilled to welcome our fiction editor Layla Mohamed in conversation with Melissa Chadburn on PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED by Paulo Freire! Join us 6/9 at 2 PM ET! REGISTER: eventbrite.com/e/again-book-c…

"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, "Music at the End of the World," is live today on the Adi site! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/music…

Find your next favorite writers in these new magazine issues! Our May roundup features new works published in @AdiMagazine, @AfterDinnerCon, @beestungmag, @BLReview, @CincinnReview, @FabulistTales, @TheHudsonReview, @kenyonreview, and more: clmp.org/news/may-2026-…

I'm glad to announce that my poem, "Black is the First Exit," has been recently published in @AdiMagazine. Thanks to the editorial team. adimagazine.com/articles/black…

"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 @Garricologist! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/black…

"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-t…

Heads up, there's still time to attend this event TONIGHT in Brooklyn at Community Bookstore at 7 PM featuring Adi's publisher @nimmideviarchy and contributor Anna Badkhen, for the launch of Anna's new book TO SEE BEYOND! REGISTER: eventbrite.com/e/anna-badkhen…

We're thrilled to have a stunning graphic essay by Simone Ren, "What Piano Taught Me," out today on the Adi site! READ: adimagazine.com/articles/what-…

My lovely piece on @AdiMagazine about afro hair as an archive of resistance is finally live 🥹 Thank you to the editors at Adi! Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/thing…

A new essay by @tehila_okagbue, "Things My Hair Remembers," is live today on the Adi site, alongside art by Kaya Joan. Read at the link below: adimagazine.com/articles/thing…