"Now that I have a child of my own, I am starting to understand what food has always been: ongoing, exhausting, invisible work, and the most essential thing I do."
Today we publish Liana Aghajanian's essay "Season to Taste!" Art by A. Gevegy.
READ: https://t.co/EnX3tUNsZp
Only ten days until the next Adi Book Club! We're so thrilled to be discussing PERSEPOLIS by Marjan Satrapi with Roohi Choudhry and Sarah K. Khan!
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"Bewildered now by anything
that opens: I no longer call them trees:
more a set of relationships:"
Today we're spotlighting "Excursion-house" by MaKshya Tolbert, from our folio LET THE SKY BE BLACK AGAIN! Art by Larissa Ribeiro.
READ: https://t.co/r7O1c5MPDv
"I ate two plums today and heard my dad’s jaw tick
when I reached for a third..."
Today we're featuring "Define Beast:" by Isha Camara from our folio LET THE SKY BE BLACK AGAIN. Art by Larissa Ribeiro.
READ: https://t.co/zDzpjyJMH8
"They have planted the trees
with distance between them.
No one should
read another’s thoughts."
Today we have a new poem by Marjan Khoshbazan out on the site! Art by Kaya Joan.
READ: https://t.co/50qGVr0kzP
"There are some clarities attainable only by insects & albumen."
Today we're spotlighting "Ars Poetica: Cera Alba" by Marissa Davis (@marissa_b_davis) from our folio LET THE SKY BE BLACK AGAIN!
READ: https://t.co/HUYSRIxwI1
In 2021, Yanbaru Forest was designated a UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site. Tourists flock to one side of the forest, pleased by what they see, unaware of the war games taking place on the other side.
Simeon Man, @AdiMagazine
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"I was drawn by the story of the village that rose against the American military. A story of asymmetry & brutality, of resolve in the face of what may seem...an inevitable outcome."
Read Simeon Man's essay "Storytellers of Yanbaru Forest." Art: A Gevegy.
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"In my mind Iman has come to the front / range to see me, suitcase paper wasp red thrown / in the trunk of my car."
Today's feature is Sydney Mayes' poem "Visit," part of our folio LET THE SKY BE BLACK AGAIN! Art by Larissa Ribeiro.
READ: https://t.co/E0siku5bht
"I can be simple like that when I’m made / known to myself. The ocean at eye level. / The diving birds in their breeding plumage."
Today we're highlighting Donika Kelly's two poems from our folio LET THE SKY BE BLACK AGAIN! Art by Larissa Ribeiro.
READ: https://t.co/Uy9j9u6BSt
"let us never forget
what we heard saw felt
in our own knowing bodies"
The first piece we're spotlighting from our new folio LET THE SKY BE BLACK AGAIN is "call to remembrance" by Evie Shockley! Art by Larissa Ribeiro.
READ: https://t.co/mEKOwJrWVp
Adi is thrilled to share our first folio! Let the sky be black again includes work by Isha Camara, @marissa_b_davis, Amanda Gunn, Donika Kelly, Sydney Mayes, Nikelle, Gloria Mwaniga Odary, Evie Shockley, & MaKshya Tolbert. Art by Larissa Ribeiro.
READ: https://t.co/hCjF96c8jy
"We drown in tomorrows and die of thirst looking for yesterdays..."
New graphic fiction from Soulaymane Tadlaoui is live today on the Adi site!
Read here: https://t.co/qOAjuZOajN
"I am scared to take a picture and then have to show it like a cliché. I am scared to not take a picture and then regret it forever."
Jara Nassar's "War Diary: Notes from Lebanon" is live today with art by A. Gevegy.
READ: https://t.co/2XiPevf3b8
"When done intelligently, humor and comedy are frighteningly revealing, within society and within a text."
Today on the site, Yassmin Abdel-Magied is in conversation on her new book AT SEA with Megan Fernandes!
READ: https://t.co/Hhw351HjeG
"Even now...it still feels radical to assert that one Muslim-born girl’s interior world could be enough to tell such an important story."
The latest Again column is out today! Roohi Choudhry helps us return to Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.
READ: https://t.co/HXnGmpvksb
"abundance is a fleeting promise / rooted in reciprocity / nourish the land & waters / & our heart berries will proliferate"
We have a new poem today from Anangookwe Wolf, "Everything returns to salt!" Art by A. Gevegy.
READ: https://t.co/yJnOQh0tcc