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Pirouetting between the past and present, fiction and memoir, and poetry and academic theory, Julian Carter’s Dances of Time and Tenderness conjures a text rippling with queer potentiality. Trained as a historian, and previously the author of a monograph on constructing the “normal”—i.e. white and straight—American citizen, Carter is now… Read more »

Geoff Bouvier’s Us from Nothing (Black Lawrence Press, 2024) is a “poetic history.” Each of the 106 cantos in the collection corresponds to one of the world’s most influential events, concepts, or inventions. The book begins with the Big Bang, 13.8 billion years ago, and ends with Amortality, a possibility… Read more »

Matthew Gellman’s first book, Beforelight, was selected by Tina Chang as the winner of BOA Editions, Ltd.’s A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. He is also the author of a chapbook, Night Logic, selected by Denise Duhamel as the winner of Tupelo Press’s 2021 Snowbound Chapbook Award. Matthew has received fellowships… Read more »

Rebecca Spiegel teaches writing in Philadelphia, where she lives with her family. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and Without Her is her first book. *** Rebecca Spiegel’s debut memoir, Without Her (Milkweed Editions, 2024), is a stark and unflinching examination of grief in the wake of… Read more »

Danielle Dutton’s Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other (Coffee House Press, 2024) is a lively, smart, strange collection of short stories, essays, and hybrid prose pieces. At first glance, the four-part book seems a higgledy-piggledy affair. “Prairie” groups five stories about characters experiencing various anxieties—including climate anxiety—in the vanishing Midwestern prairie. “Dresses”… Read more »

My first love in college was not a boy, but a book: Anne Carson’s The Beauty of the Husband. One early autumn weekend, I lay in a warm patch of grass, outside my dormitory, the leaves just beginning to turn. I would pick up the book in a rapture, read… Read more »

Being a lifelong son of the borough, the Brooklyn pastoral—and by extension, the greater New York one—has always existed for me, both in life and in fiction, as the carrier and creator of local(ized) drama. It is a kinetic land whose neighborhoods, brownstones, English language centers, delicatessens, recreational grounds, and… Read more »

When a reader once called me a research-based poet, I was startled. I had never thought of my poems in that way. Though I know that something I call “poetic thinking” drives my work, I had never written a poetry book based, for example, on historical manuscripts or an archeological… Read more »

Catherine Barnett is the author of four poetry collections, including Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space (2024 Graywolf) and Human Hours (Believer Book Award, NYT “Best Poetry of 2018” selection). A Guggenheim fellow, she received a 2022 Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of… Read more »

The editors of The Adroit Journal are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2024 Adroit Prizes for Poetry & Prose. The Adroit Prizes are awarded annually to two students of secondary or undergraduate status. We’re fortunate to receive exceptional work from emerging writers in high school and college, and… Read more »