The Adroit Journal News Updates

Margaret Ross is the author of two books of poetry, A Timeshare and Saturday. Her poems and translations have appeared in Granta, Harper’s, The Paris Review, and POETRY. She currently lives in Saskatchewan.   The first Margaret Ross poem I encountered was “Socks,” and immediately had that very rare sensation… Read more »

Sarah Perry is the author of the memoir After the Eclipse, which was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a Poets & Writers Notable Nonfiction Debut, and a Barnes & Noble Discover pick. Perry is the recipient of the 2018 Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award and was… Read more »

  The Adroit Journal is proud to announce the eighth class of Gregory Djanikian Scholars in Poetry and the inaugural class of Anthony Veasna So Scholars in Fiction—twelve exciting emerging poets and fiction writers we should all be watching. All emerging poets and fiction writers who have not published full-length… Read more »

…the uncontrolled lives of mushrooms are a gift—and a guide—when the controlled world we thought we had fails. —Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World “Like most of us, trees don’t want to be eaten alive,” begins a piece posted on the U.S. Energy Department website.… Read more »

In Jennifer Maier’s newest collection of poetry, The Occupant, she masters the art of animating inanimate objects—a conch shell, hairbrush, even a glass of wine—and establishes an immediate emotional connection that encourages a closer examination of the community that inhabits a home. Maier probes the unique personalities of household items… Read more »

Therí Alyce Pickens is a poet-scholar working in Arab American Studies, Black American Studies, Comparative Literature, and Disability Studies. She has written two monographs: Black Madness :: Mad Blackness (Duke, 2019) and New Body Politics (Routledge, 2014). What Had Happened Was is her debut poetry collection. You can find out… Read more »

There is a long tradition of journalists successfully turning to fiction: Dickens, Twain, Hemingway; and among contemporary writers, Ken Kalfus and Taffy Brodesser-Akner come to mind. Add to that list Zahid Rafiq, who spent ten years as a journalist in his native Kashmir and has just released his first collection… Read more »

In 1997, during the first wave of a reality TV deluge that remains ongoing, a cast member of MTV’s Road Rules named Holly spoke about the nickname her cast used for the crew: “Big Brother.” Holly said, “we’d be like into the radio, ‘uh Big Brother, we’re just wondering’” this… Read more »

The Zeroes—taught us—Phosphorous—  We learned to like the Fire  By playing Glaciers—when a Boy—  And Tinder—guessed—by power  Of Opposite—to balance Odd—  If White—a Red—must be!  Paralysis—our Primer—dumb—  Unto Vitality!                                           … Read more »

Steven Duong’s debut collection, At the End of the World There Is a Pond, emerges at a pivotal moment in contemporary American poetry, when questions of environmental crisis, diasporic identity, and formal innovation demand urgent attention. The collection’s sophisticated engagement with theoretical frameworks—from Édouard Glissant’s concept of errantry to Donna… Read more »