Daily Live Feed

“I see gossip as being inherent to writing. The desire or need or both to share our stories. And on the other end: a want to be heard and to listen. Whether light or heavy, mundane or wild, there is urgency in gossip to be known.” – Moises Delgado, Prose… Read more »

The Adroit Journal is proud to announce the seventh class of Gregory Djanikian Scholars in Poetry and the second 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 collections… Read more »

Rachel Edelman is a Jewish poet raised in Memphis, Tennessee whose writing explores diasporic living. Their debut collection of poems, Dear Memphis, was published in January 2024 and is now available from River River Books. Rachel’s poems have appeared in Narrative, The Seventh Wave, The Threepenny Review, West Branch, and… Read more »

Born in Toronto, J. Mae Barizo is a poet and multidisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of poetics, performance and decoloniality. She is the author of two books of poetry, Tender Machines (Tupelo Press, 2023) and The Cumulus Effect (Four Way Books, 2015). She is a 2024 resident artist at Baryshnikov Arts Centre and an… Read more »

The great poet, Lucille Clifton, once said (and, of course, I’m paraphrasing) that when she thought she had a sufficient number of poems to complete a collection, she spread the poems across her floor and let them “speak with each other” and thus, her collection would be formed. I’ve always… Read more »

Shanta Lee is an award-winning artist who works in different mediums as a photographer, writer across genres, and public intellectual. She is the author of a few poetry collections including the forthcoming chapbook, This Is How They Teach You How to Want It…The Slaughter (Harbor Editions, 2024). Learn more: Shantalee.com  … Read more »

Luke Johnson was born and raised in Cayucos, Calif., and later graduated from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo with a degree in history. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College. When he isn’t vacuuming or chasing kids, he spends his time writing. He lives… Read more »

Jenny Sadre-Orafai is the author of four poetry collections. A new edition of Malak, her second poetry collection, will be published by the University of Akron Press in 2024. Her prose has appeared in The Rumpus, Fourteen Hills, The Los Angeles Review, The Collagist, and others. She co-founded and co-edits… Read more »

The first time I have seen a torii gate—the tree trunk poles, the slightly concave roof—was at the Botanic Garden in the unceded homeland of the Lenape people. In the garden that quiet, humid morning, I listened for the hum of traffic that usually carries its quick and cacophonous voice… Read more »

Monica Ferrell’s latest poetry collection, You Darling Thing (2018, Four Way Books), was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award and for The Believer Book Award. Cathy Park Hong says of this collection, “each poem is as precise and deadly as a pearl-handled pistol, as (Ferrell) takes fantasies imposed on… Read more »