iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A close-up of Hannah Altman's photograph "One Hollow to Another" from Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

000

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For the penultimate day of #LitMagWeek, we’re remembering Tin House, a gone but not forgotten quarterly we dearly miss. litmagweek.com

021

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today’s #LitMagWeek is dedicated to a magazine we love: @kenyonreview! litmagweek.com

062

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Today is a special day. Anne and I get to skip school and attend a memorial for someone who has died. Anne thinks it is our mother, but I’m fairly certain our mother has been dead many years.” Read Skyler Melnick’s "Merge" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

042

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Happy Lit Mag Week! We’re slinging our popular Adroit dad hats for 10% off through October 2. adroitjournal.bigcartel.com/product/the-...

032

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“ a house finch breaks from the brush of marsh mallows in morning” Read Anastasia K. Gates' poem "Emily Brontë" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

011

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"I am very interested in language’s capacity to flatten experience. Canned language, dead language, plots, self-narrativization." Read a conversation with Avigayl Sharp in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

021

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A close-up of Kim Suttell's piece "We Should Meet in Another Life" from Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

010

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"There is no why. When, like a vestibule/designed for carrying sheaves, you enter that day/empty-handed. And the sun leaves" Read Michelle Phương Hồ's "Vilomah" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

030

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"I know what to expect and it is not because of anything my mother has taught me." Read Tryphena Yeboah’s "Home Remedies" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

010

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Form is both an ocular and auditory manifestation of poetry." Read a conversation between Adrian Matejka and Evan Goldstein in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

020

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2026 Adroit’s Editor’s Prizes in Poetry & Fiction! 🎉 Read more about the winners & finalists here: theadroitjournal.org/editors-priz...

020

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Call for visual artists! We're looking for work that's capable of shifting perspective and stays with us long after we’ve encountered it. We welcome works across mediums: textiles, ceramics, embroidery, sculpture, photography, painting, and beyond. adroit.submittable.com/submit

010

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We're open! Send us your best poetry, prose, and translations by October 31. adroit.submittable.com/submit

000

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“The storm reached Jacksonville long after the newscasters said it would.” Read Sarah Kay's poem "Two Boys on the Subway" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

001

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Into her chest sash he chiseled/Michelangelo Buonarroti made this/and lived long enough to regret it” Read Kathy Fagan’s poem "Naturalism" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

030

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“Every day I try to draw a horse./(The grotesque performs its own recompense.)” Read KT Herr’s poem "The Horses" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

000

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“For several years now I haven’t made pictures or paid attention to them, but they still sometimes pop out of the web and strike at my psyche like a frog’s tongue.” Read Youssef Rakha's "Parable of the Uroboros and the Camera" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

000

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"I had a date with a photographer/who told me under a Tiffany lamp/my face had the signs of neglect/he liked; he wanted to photograph me." Read Matthew Gellman's poem "I Remember the Stairs" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

010

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“Uniforms erase gestures/erase years/erase people/turning them into balloons/about to burst/amid a field of flowers.” Read Ileana Garma’s poem "The Uniform of Flowers" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

000

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“Poems aren’t meant to estrange us, but sometimes in order to bring us close, they have to disorient us.” Read "A Conversation with Elizabeth Metzger" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

010

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“'It began with a car crash,' the father would say, later, in recounting the tale, 'a wanderer blown off course. We should have taken it as a sign and turned back then.'” Read Brendan Bowles' "Yosemite Forever" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

000

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“August, listless. A glaze/of heat on skin. The slow/smear of roads/below thick air.” Read Joanna Klink’s poem "Lat Summer, Childhood" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

021

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"A feral sadness runs through A Suit or a Suitcase, Maggie Smith’s new collection, one with a hunger rumbling in its belly." Read Divya Mehrish's "Do I Wear It or Does It Carry Me? A Review of Maggie Smith's 'A Suit or a Suitcase'" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

020

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“My friend is scared she has less time now” Read Tarfia Faizullah’s poem "The Gnosis in Diagnosis" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

020

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“He wanted no story of simple ascension, wanted nothing of the truth of how He won that slippery throne.” Read Siang Lu’s "神话" or "Mythologique" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

000

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“'Data wants to flow,' he says,/and we’re used to things like that:/urine, time,/ lava.” Read Rae Armantrout’s poem "What Data Wants" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

031

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Issue Fifty-Eight is here, bringing a vibrant batch of poetry, prose, interviews, and artwork to the fore!🦩 Start reading here: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

031

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

“Death is a god/damned thief.” We're revisiting standout work from our archives. Read Patrick Phillips’s poem "The Leash" in Issue Forty: theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-...

001

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"Maybe the love poem is my own version of our story, of who and what and how we are." We're revisiting standout conversations from our archives. Read Abigail McFee's interview of Natalie Diaz in Issue Thirty-Two: theadroitjournal.org/issue-thirty...

010

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

“the vegetation’s overtaking/is that complete. How it/shags the machinery/into the abstract.” We're revisiting standout works from the archives. Read David Hernandez’s poem "Buried" in Issue Thirty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-thirty...

000

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

A close-up of Cami DuMay's "Love at Any Cost" from Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

011

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"From the cat’s mouth, I pulled a mouse./Its eye a punctured planet,/a pink foam, and its chest so fast." Read Quinn Franzen's poem "The Name of Action" in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

000

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

"Time turned back. Said, Leave her be. Her life is,/As it once was, over, after this. It is not true/That a lily lasts only forty days. It will be/Different for different lilies." Read Darius Atefat-Peckham's Poem "After Forty Days" in issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

000

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"My skin is an organ of memory." Read Joan Houlihan's poem "Who Are You?" in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

010

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"she can’t remember the plot./only that it didn’t work, only/that he prayed and prayed/it would, only they all laughed" Read Fatimah Asghar's poem "[HE MADE A MOVIE, IT WAS A FLOP]" in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

010

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Submissions are open for the 2026 Editor’s Prizes in Poetry & Fiction! Learn more & submit here by July 31: theadroitjournal.org/editors-priz...

011

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"I know I’m in my father’s blazer, nestled/near his heart, where he keeps his phone" Read James Davis May’s poem "Pocket Dial" in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

000

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

A close-up of Brandon Downing's "The Americans XXVII" from Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

021

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"The moment it became clear this would become a story of endings/All the okra at the top of the stalks were stiff fingers reaching for God" Read Acie Clark’s “Everyone Standing at Their Windows Said We Needed That” in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

010

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

A close-up of Najib Joe Hakim's photograph "Amira" from Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

021

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

“Runteldat if blkness ever tips extinct–epitaph/on reel-repeat.” Read Kyle G. Dargan’s poem "Slavery was the World's First Nuclear Bomb" in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

010

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

“The storm reached Jacksonville long after the newscasters said it would.” Read Bethany Bruno’s short story "Buried" in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

000

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

"your mada wen tell you make sure you get two cases SPAM, because we gotta make musubis" Read Melissa Llanes Brownlee's “Coupons They Let You Take a Rain Check On at Taniguchi’s” in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

031

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

A close-up of Evelyn Yu's photo "Moving On" from Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

010

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

“We sip craft beers/in the shadow of the old opium den/t-shirts for sale/a wall of grinning gone faces/framed and hung” Read Jade Cho’s "Asian American Historic District" in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

021

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

“The house has many doors. They stretch behind me—like a hallway of dark mirrors. At my feet, a little terror I call my pet.” Read Nina C. Peláez’s "Birthday: Haibun" in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

042

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

“Before the fire—before the night I will be born—the boy wakes up to his father, knocking on the door of his room.” Read Persimmon Tobing’s "Roleplay" in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

000

The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

“In her journal, Frida Kahlo wrote Yo soy la desintegración./She used ser versus estar to signify forever.” Read Mary Robles’ poem, "It Rains Nails, It Rains Sun" in Issue Fifty-Seven: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

120