Adi Magazine

A Lullaby for Gaza report: 70% of Gaza land designated as security zone an engine haunts my body— one hand iron, one leg machine. it drags itself through the alleys of my ribs. do you smell flesh? taste bloo...

"write my name—
Malak.
not: “female, age unknown.”
not: “Gazan civilian in a blue plastic bag."
write it today,
tomorrow,
again—
until metaphor
is no longer a metaphor."

Malak Hijazi writes from Gaza in this new poem from Adi, "A Lullaby for Gaza."

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My mini poem, titled, "Where do you go when the Genocide is too Loud" is out today on @adimagazine.bsky.social 🎉

Incredibly honoured that the editors chose to give this piece a home.

And, as always, #FreePalestine 🇸🇩

Letter to the Deity Who Told Me Arriving Here Is Difficult as Welcome I love you / even though what I know of exile / living also includes joy.

Dear Kabunian, I love you even though you gave your buhay to our bodies,
even though you shaped us from the soup…

—Hari Alluri’s “Letter to the Deity Who Told Me Arriving Here Is Difficult as Welcome” in @adimagazine.bsky.social #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth
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Where Do You Go When the Genocide is Too Loud? In the cracksbetweenmy teeth, wheremy prayerstake shape.In the hollowof my palms, wherethey are answered.

"Where Do You Go When the Genocide is Too Loud?" asks Fatima Abdullahi in this new poem, out today from Adi.

READ: adimagazine.com/articles/whe...

World Without End On Christmas Day, my family and I wrapped our warm bodies against the arbitrary demarcations of the Canada-U.S. border. Mom, Dad, Ate Han, Mamita, and I were on the American side, and Tito Ben, Tita…

“On Christmas Day, my family and I wrapped our warm bodies against the arbitrary demarcations of the Canada-U.S. border.”

Read Hannah Keziah Agustin’s essay “World Without End” in @adimagazine.bsky.social #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth adimagazine.com/articles/wor...

To Write is to Serve the People: A Conversation with Faye Cura of Gantala Press In 2016, when former President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines—who is now being prosecuted at the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity during his war on drugs—launched a period ...

"Literature can document stories related to the struggle—not just the hardship people face, but also how they achieve victory when they continue to resist."

Tristan James Biglete interviews Faye Cura of Gantala Press in the Philippines!

Read: adimagazine.com/articles/to-...

Congratulations to Adi's nominees for the Best of the Net anthology @sundresspub.bsky.social! We're so proud of our contributors and love a chance to shout out their incredible work. Best of luck to each of these wonderful writers and artists! ♥

above from below above from below. below from above.  who convinces us that our destiny is unchanging?  that we are born with fates, fixed and borrowed from the stars? ... The ocean does not churn milk from salt fo...

"above from below. below from above.
who convinces us that our destiny is unchanging?"

Read angel bista's dreamy hybrid fiction, out today on the website!

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Read Me in Atmosphere Editor's note: due to formatting, this piece is best viewed on desktop. With great prosperity came great suffering in NATION.People were either born into prosperity or suffering, and sometimes in…

“With great prosperity came great suffering in NATION. People were either born into prosperity or suffering, and sometimes in between.”

Find Melina Casados’s “Read Me in Atmosphere” in @adimagazine.bsky.social! #HispanicHeritageMonth adimagazine.com/articles/rea...

Perseverance

"Why was the state so hard on people like mom? Why was its assistance so precarious and intermittent?"

Abby Rocha's graphic essay "Perseverance" is out today, discussing Rocha's relationship with their mother, their artistic journey, & more!

Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/per...

The Year My Sister Became a Border In a small, state-funded maternity ward where solar light flickered and rust crept like ivy along the windowsills, my mother was given precisely sixty seconds to decide which of her newborns would liv...

"That was the first lesson the state taught us: that worth could be sliced between two identical bodies."

Sharon Aruparayil's story "The Year My Sister Became a Border" is published today on the Adi site!

Read this stunning piece of short fiction here: adimagazine.com/articles/the...

A Dark Stain on the House: Fifteen Landays The landay is a poetic form traditionally developed by Pashtun women in Afghanistan; it is a part of their rich oral tradition. The word “landay” in Pashto translates as “little poisonous snake,” a me...

"At the bitter door of no return,
the life of every locked door was thrown open wide."

New poetry today: Luisa Villa Meriño's stunning landays, translated by Kim Jensen!

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A Choral Response to Disaster: Mónica-Ramón Ríos interviews Giannina Braschi on Putinoika In 2024, Puerto Rican writer and longtime New York resident Giannina Braschi published her fourth novel, Putinoika (Flowersong Press, 2024), a book that seems almost impossible to describe. When a col...

"Don’t live on the defense! Offend! Why would I be worried about what the white minority is thinking or reading in their comfort zone?"

Out today: a new interview w/ Mónica Ramón Ríos & @gianninabraschi.bsky.social on Braschi's book PUTINOIKA (@flowersongpress.bsky.social)!

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Two Poems You’ve demolished my homes in your hubris

“Your names are the only language
that hold any meaning penned into the skin…”

Read two poems by Amany El-Regeb and Aiya Sakr (translated from the Arabic by Sakr), published in @adimagazine.bsky.social & featured on our #WomenInTranslationMonth reading list: adimagazine.com/articles/two...

Read Me in Atmosphere Editor's note: due to formatting, this piece is best viewed on desktop. With great prosperity came great suffering in NATION.People were either born into prosperity or suffering, and sometimes ...

"With great prosperity came great suffering in NATION."

Part myth, part personal narrative, part poem, "Read Me in Atmosphere" by Melina Casados is live on the website today! Art by Larissa Ribeiro.

Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/rea...

Solastalgia translated by Alison Entrekin Mars is closer to Earth precisely today 56 million kilometers a glowing red dot we’d say a star from here from this other dot where fireflies survive precisely today the…

Mars is closer to Earth
precisely today 56 million kilometers
a glowing red dot…

—“Solastalgia” by Adriana Lisboa, translated from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin, is featured in @adimagazine.bsky.social & on our #WomenInTranslationMonth reading list:
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Love Song of the Liberal Gun Owner I never expected to search for a “female-friendly shotgun.” Or to end up matching with a Mossberg Maverick 88: a $300, 12-gauge, pump-action made in Texas, just like me. Then again, I never expected A...

"I never expected to search for a 'female-friendly shotgun.' ...Then again, I never expected America to get this spooky."

Read Keli Dailey's fiery essay "Love Song of the Liberal Gun Owner," paired with artwork by the incredible Candice Evers.

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Citlalli A star reflects light. It is a distant light. It is a center, surrounded. It is what surrounds the center. A celestial body. It hides. Twinkles. Star is my name. Something quiet but also an incandesce...

"Star is my name. Something quiet but also an incandescence. I like that word: its sound lingers like embers floating up to the night sky."

Gabriela Jauregui's haunting short story "Citlalli" is out today from Adi!

Read the full piece here: adimagazine.com/articles/cit...

The Double Life of a Palestinian Translator I. The Translator as a Witness to Vanishing Worlds To be a Palestinian translator is to become an intermediary between a vanishing world and one that often refuses to acknowledge its disappearance....

"To translate Gaza is to search not merely for the right words, but for the ears willing to receive them."
Alaa Alqaisi in The Double Life of a Palestinian Translator
@adimagazine.bsky.social

#translation #translators

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Alaa's essay now published in Slovenian: jalastovka.si/pod-tuljenje...

in Greek: linkedin.com/posts/gelly-...

in Albanian: nyje.al/nen-ulerimen...

Please be in touch if you are translating.

Beneath the Howl of Hunger “And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain.” – Alaa Alqaisi

"There is no end to the horror, no fade to black. The children here continue to age without ever growing up. The elderly speak of bread the way others speak of lost lovers."

—Alaa Alqaisi for @arablit.bsky.social

Read: arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...

222 or asyndetic ibetrays youyou comedyfool yougreyingghost—ihides fromi’s facein mirrorsmadeshuttershut—idisassemblesi’sself insubzerooverthinkeach nighteach bit—i’s ichopped upfor parts—ilibe-rates y-ousi-debysi-de ...

"i
betrays you
you comedy
fool you
greying
ghost—"

There's a new poem by Dior J. Stephens out today at Adi!

Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/222...

Tiny T

Adi's first graphic essay "Tiny T" by the wonderful Nasrin Sheykhi is out today on the website! Check out this essay on Nasrin's fraught immigration to the US and her subsequent "Tiny Trump" portrait.

Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/tin...

The Double Life of a Palestinian Translator I. The Translator as a Witness to Vanishing Worlds To be a Palestinian translator is to become an intermediary between a vanishing world and one that often refuses to acknowledge its disappearance....

"Is the world willing to hear, or are we only speaking into an echo chamber of grief?"

Read Alaa Alqaisi's devastating essay, "The Double Life of a Palestinian Translator," out today from Adi.

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thrilled to have a new story forthcoming in @adimagazine.bsky.social about a magical library, a social worker who falls in love with the immortal librarian, and their efforts to use the library's magic to assist someone fleeing abuse! also: libraries are amazing! please support them!

Experimental Architecture Most people we knew wanted to get away from Capital City as soon as they could. The problem was they had nowhere to go. There were places that might stay habitable for a while, maybe for decades, but ...

Today we are pleased to share an excerpt titled "Experimental Architecture" from Daniela Catrileo's forthcoming book CHILCO, translated by Jacob Edelstein!

Out 7/15/25 from @fsgbooks.bsky.social!

Read "Experimental Architecture" here: adimagazine.com/articles/exp...

Stitching Community: The Immigrant Women Who Handmade a Brooklyn Neighborhood November 9, 2016, past midnight. I tried and failed to undress in my dark bedroom, caught in a tangle of clothes. My hands shook too hard to meet the demands of buttons and zippers. I gave up and fell...

"Voices ringing out around me on streets growing familiar, I could almost dare to believe it—that we might survive this administration together."

Check out Adi's newest essay, "Stitching Community" by Roohi Choudhry!

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"Hakimi Zapata asks us not to despair no matter how dire circumstances may be, and draws examples from around the world to remind us that change is achievable."

Read Yassmin Abdel-Magied's interview w/ @natashakimiz.bsky.social about ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE!

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Editor’s Note Adi Magazine is evolving! We will now publish a new piece every week, curating a selection of creative nonfiction, poetry, short fiction, and visual art on the ideas and stories that provoke and inspi...

Adi is evolving! We will now publish a new piece weekly! This shift means we can offer readers more timely writing about how global policies affect our lives.

Please follow along + sign up for our newsletter—exciting things to come ❤️

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