Jori Lewis

Adi Magazine events alerts!

Tomorrow, 3/5, in Baltimore at #awp2026: our panel "Global Words in a Time of Crisis" w/ Guernica & @asterixjournal.bsky.social!

And looking ahead, our online Again Book Club with Anna Badkhen on WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS is on 4/7: www.eventbrite.com/e/again-book...

All the Others Have Won Their Wars: Three Poems by Heba Abunada - Adi Magazine O! How alone we are! All the others have won their wars and you were left in your mud, barren. Darwish, don’t you know? No poetry will return to the

"When I say Yafa,
a yacht sails
between my fingers,
and into my words
a crescent moon
falls."

Three new poems by Heba Abunada, translated with commentary from Huda J. Fakhreddine, are live on the Adi site today!

READ: adimagazine.com/articles/all...

An image of Adi Magazine's new website home page, with the words "Adi Magazine, rehumanizing policy" at the top. The design showcases six of the latest pieces and illustrations Adi has published against a tan background.

Surprise! Adi has a new website 💜🧡 we're so pleased to share our new site is up and running, with new colors, better search navigation, and a design that better showcases our amazing contributors and illustrators.

Go check out our latest pieces at adimagazine.com!

River Humanism Taking a walk near home, no one expects to find a dead man in a corn field. When my neighbor here in Northern California did, he called 911 first and then uploaded the corpse’s photo to our housing co...

New essay alert! Check out @torsa.bsky.social's essay, "River Humanism," which meditates on bauls, wandering musicians from West Bengal, India, and Bangladesh, and their philosophy of movement.

READ: adimagazine.com/articles/riv...

Again: Crossing the Mangrove How do we return to the same texts for inspiration, for teaching? Such returns, at times, feel tedious. I will admit that even when not engaged in revisiting texts, I'm often bored, making rereads eve...

The second installment of Adi's new "Again" column is live today! Myriam J. A. Chancy reflects on the book "Crossing the Mangrove" by Maryse Condé!

READ: adimagazine.com/articles/aga...

To Translate is to Resist I could not enter the practice of translation feigning ignorance of the myriad ways in which translation has served as a tool of surveillance, categorization, and suppression. As much as translation h...

We're thrilled to share the essay "To Translate is to Resist" by Nedra Rodrigo, excerpted from TAMIL TERRAINS (@tracepress.bsky.social, November 2025) with artwork by Kaya Joan!

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

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I have gone mad before, so I am not afraid i long for this ordinary apocalypse, my hands still as i kneadflour, wet with oil, as i watch the yeast rise asit wants for water,there are children outside playing in the asphalt, they arethrowing me...

"i have dreamt it before, this terrible reckoning, this gaping..."

Adi's first publication of the year is here! Asmaa Jama's poem "I have gone mad before, so I am not afraid" is live today, with art by Kaya Joan.

Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/i-h...

A little bit late to sharing this, but Adi is so proud to have nominated the following wonderful writers for a Pushcart Prize earlier this month.

Congrats to Rania Mamoun, Alaa Alqaisi, Sharon Aruparayil, Tarfa Benson, @jezzbah.bsky.social, and Malak Hijazi!

Ghazal for the Dispossessed Republics There are names they never let bloom: not in maps, not in marrow—cartographies erased by teeth, tongues chewed into hollow.My grandfather spat fire in a dialect they jailed. He taught meto write freed...

"There are names they never let bloom: not in maps, not in marrow— / cartographies erased by teeth, tongues chewed into hollow."

There's a new poem, "Ghazal for the Dispossessed Republics" by Avril Shakira Villar on the Adi site! Art by Larissa Ribeiro.

READ: adimagazine.com/articles/gha...

Again: The Wretched of the Earth This essay marks the beginning of a new column for Adi Magazine called

NEW COLUMN ALERT!

The Again column provides a space reflect on a text the author returns to again and again, and we're thrilled that Adi's publisher Nimmi Gowrinathan kicked us off with Frantz Fanon in "Again: The Wretched of the Earth."

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The River of Birds He who leaves, takes his memory,  his way of being river, of being air,  of being goodbye and never. Love, Rosario Castellanos When Josefa heard that bird camouflaged among the trunks, she reme...

"When Josefa heard that bird camouflaged among the trunks, she remembered when mother had run away from home."

New fiction, "The River of Birds" by Quya Reyna, translated by Andree Michelle Viladegut Peñaranda is live today on Adi's website!

Read: adimagazine.com/articles/the...

Islands in the Sky Everywhere I go, spiders seem to find me. If not spiders then their webs, clingy strings meant to capture prey or capture your attention. Something about spiders’ craftiness, their art of living, the ...

"As some of the oldest creatures on land, it makes sense that spiders are often part of our origin stories."

A new essay, "Islands in the Sky" by Ashia S. Ajani, is live today on the Adi website!

READ: adimagazine.com/articles/isl...

Bridge Gringo

"There is an age-old question about who came first: the River or the People? The answer you get depends on who you ask."

Innocent Chizaram Ilo's short story "Bridge Gringo" is live on the Adi site today, with stunning art by our new illustrator, Jinhwa Jang!

READ: adimagazine.com/articles/bri...

Queer Ecology While admiring the bounty of tomatoes in Q and M’s garden,we’re visited by crows. There are two, which makes it a murder.Q says that’s sick, sick itself a word inverted like a dogbelly-up in the grass...

"What a wonder, what a word, almost wander,
as in through a luminous forest of dreams, almost window,
a sly peephole into forever..."

Natalie Wee's poem "Queer Ecology" is up on the Adi site this week, with art by Herikita!

READ: adimagazine.com/articles/que...

Ten Days in the Tall Trees Water called out to meeach mouth a lush bluegarden, window, a warning:The rooftop is the worst.Sight is nothing but an opportunityto become the mountain’sbruised heads disru...

"Language is where I grew less
small light streaming through the gaps
between my fingers..."

New poetry up today on the Adi website! We're thrilled to share Ezza Ahmed's "Ten Days in the Tall Trees," with art by Larissa Ribeiro!

READ: adimagazine.com/articles/ten...

The Sweetness of the Imperfect Struggle In early 2023, I decided to move back to southern Brazil from Germany, where I had lived for five years. I then came back to my parents’ small farm in Paraná, in our town’s Landless Workers’ Movement ...

"Telling someone from Brazil that I grew up in the MST almost always involves baggage on their side and mine."

Read Carolina Simionato's essay on joys and struggles of movement-building, out today from Adi!

adimagazine.com/articles/the...

صبر saber If another person asks me about what do I think is the solution to the “conflict”I’ll tell them about the cacti who knows the hands picking its prickly fruitthe cacti ...

"we were here when the Nakba took place that spring. /
we hid the gold at the bottom of the well near the spring—we knew we’d return.
we safeguard your stories when you are silenced."

"saber" by Aicha bint Yusif is live today on the Adi website.
Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/sab...

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! ♥

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 🇸🇩

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."

READ: adimagazine.com/articles/a-l...

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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...

Buried Sunshine | Jori Lewis When I was knee-high to a grasshopper, we lived in a house in the country—on a rural road on the outskirts of Springfield, Illinois, where the water was

“Buried Sunshine” my essay on Illinois coal mining and Black and Indigenous histories of violence is now out!
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"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.

adimagazine.com/articles/the...

This heat wave is absolutely bone crushing. I'm so glad I installed central air two years ago.

But if you're without AC, or you're dealing with a heat wave for the first time because it's reaching areas that don't historically get this hot, here are a few tips from my years of poverty in a desert: