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Ocean Vuong’s latest novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is a bold and remarkable novel that captures the hopes and disillusionments of people living in today’s America. The story begins in the fictional town of East Gladness, Connecticut, with the unlikely encounter between the young Vietnamese-American man, Hai, who is planning… Read more »

When I decided to pursue an MFA in poetry, I applied widely and foolishly, and somehow accepted an offer from NYU—an offer I quickly questioned in my first workshop where, when introducing ourselves, I learned I was sitting next to a 23-year-old phenom already published in The New Yorker. Fuck,… Read more »

Before I ever stepped to a mic or submitted a poem to a press, music filled my ears, my head, my neighborhood, the kitchen in our household, the whining cassette player beneath my bed sheets. When I discovered poetry, I discovered it through music. My mother had a stack of… Read more »

The post Short Reviews of Yaanom by Sarpong Osei Asamoah, In These Bones, I Am Shifting by Claudia Owusu, and Voyaging by Nome Emeka Patrick appeared first on The Adroit Journal. Read more »

Hedgie Choi is the author of the poetry collection Salvage, published by the University of Wisconsin Press. She received her MFA in poetry from the Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin, and her MFA in fiction from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. She lives in Chicago.  *** Hedgie… Read more »

Handsome men, my Ptown cottage guests were all of Steve’s generation, in their fifties and sixties. I was in my late-thirties. They wanted to know what my parents had thought of me spending so much time with an older man when I was a teen. “Was your mom a fag… Read more »

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Sarah Yahm is a freelance writer, radio producer and educator who has been published in Slate, The Bellevue Literary Review, and NPR and its affiliates. Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation was awarded the 2024 Dzanc Prize for Fiction. The book was published in May.  *** When an author writes honestly… Read more »

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The inspiration for the opening “odes” in my new book Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man was my desire to voice resistance to the constant racism aimed at the Latinx communities in the very country I was born: America. I have been travelling around the country to various… Read more »