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Keetje Kuipers’s fourth poetry collection, Lonely Women Make Good Lovers (BOA Editions, 2025), is a passionate exploration of the self—in all its forms—in relation to the world. A wife’s pregnant body receives tender adoration alongside praise for the natural, writhing outdoors. The gentle ministrations of parenthood stand against the sizzling… Read more »

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CMarie Fuhrman is the author of Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return and Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems and the co-editor of Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry and Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations. She has published poetry and nonfiction in numerous magazines, including Terrain.org, Emergence Magazine, The Ex-Puritan, Northwest… Read more »

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Chris Campanioni writes in transit and on transit, and I read his new novel VHS (CLASH Books) on subways and airplanes, while drinking coffee and before falling asleep. I met Chris at a reading a year and a half ago at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn and have been fortunate to… Read more »

If I were to choose one principle that guided me while writing my first full-length poetry collection, Chronicle of Drifting (Copper Canyon Press, 2025), it would be Italo Calvino’s notion of “lightness.” This might seem odd, since many of the poems in the book were written amid a time of… Read more »

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 »