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Issue Fifty-Nine is here! Dive in to read poetry and prose by our 2026 Adroit Prizes and Editor's Prizes recipients, plus new work by Diane Seuss, Marianne Boruch, Natalie Shapero, Sumita Chakraborty, and so many others across ages and stages.
Read here: theadroitjournal.org/issue-f…
“I’ve seen it, the best
minds gone as soft
as sticky buns, and not
the kind with nuts”
Read “You Best Write It Down, Lest You Lose,” one of two poems by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Diane Seuss featured in Issue Fifty Nine: theadroitjournal.org/issue-f…
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“It’s eight-thirty. It’s that pivot point of summer vacation where everyone’s bored.”
Read Leslie Pietrzyk’s short story “Hyenas,” winner of our 2026 Editor’s Prize in Fiction, in Issue Fifty-Nine: theadroitjournal.org/issue-f…
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“It is usually a quiet line that draws my attention, a moment that seems almost designed to be missed.”
Read Maya C. Popa in conversation with fellow poet Leigh Lucas in Issue Fifty-Nine: theadroitjournal.org/issue-f…
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“The summer just past his dying, I heard,
from inside the rotting barn—
birdsong.”
Read Sara Hovda's poem "Men and Starlings and Women," winner of our 2026 Editor's Prize in Poetry, in Issue Fifty-Nine: theadroitjournal.org/issue-f…
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Plans tonight? Join us via Zoom for our second Issue Fifty-Nine release reading, this time celebrating prose contributors!
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Join us via Zoom TONIGHT for the first of two back-to-back readings celebrating Issue Fifty-Nine!
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Join us from your couch next week! We're hosting two back-to-back virtual celebrations featuring some of our incredible Issue Fifty-Nine contributors.
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“The sudden daylight hours/& sudden sonnets/of sparrows are daunting,/to say the least.”
Read Yean Kim’s poem "Winter Elegy" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-f…
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"my country has a habit/of speaking in the past tense/it is a horse that is hard/to break."
Read Lillian Emerick Valentine’s poem "When Writing About the West" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-f…
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Time to polish up those submissions: We're accepting work in all genres (poetry, prose, translations, and art) through next Saturday, 10/31!
Learn more & submit here: adroit.submittable.com/submi…
“Omar’s mom died on Friday during Ramadan/It’s been two years since he left/New Jersey, he swore he’d never come back.”
Read Ai Khanoum’s poem "Some Stories Don't Need Repeating" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-f…
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“Because you’re a good girl, you won’t lose your virginity until you’re 27.”
Read Kat Echevarría Richter’s "The Bigger the Hoop the Bigger the [or]: A Step-by-Step Guide to 27 Years of Not Losing-Your-Virginity" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-f…
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Adroit Prizes for Poetry & Prose, selected by Leila Chatti and Karissa Chen!
Read more about the winners, runners-up, and finalists here: theadroitjournal.org/2026/10…
A close-up of Kayleen Subin Cho's "Pressed Into Shape" from Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-f…
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"I take away and take away—subtract, like/a departure of birds to reveal a tree and pond in winter."
Read Xu Li’s poem "Coda" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-f…
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"In a heroic crown of sonnets (redoublé), a poet writes fourteen interlocking poems that reference one another, repeating the last line of one poem as the first line of the next."
Read Ryan Sharp's conversation with Marcus Wicker in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-f…
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“At the funeral, the soil is damp. The air smells like iron and turned earth. Your hands stay folded in front of you when they lower her.”
Read Heather Emmanuel’s "Running Water" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-f…
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"The school bus chased two mares through the orchard./Our parents don’t believe it. Whose horses? Ran where?"
Read Brennan Bestwick’s poem "Horses in the Orchard" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-f…
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A close-up of Hannah Altman's photograph "One Hollow to Another" from Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-f…
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