August 2025 – The Adroit Journal
3 posts published by Travis Helms, Doris Cheng, and Kate Gaskin during August 2025| The Adroit Journal
3 posts published by Travis Helms, Doris Cheng, and Kate Gaskin during August 2025| The Adroit Journal
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Daniel Tam-Claiborne is familiar with the spaces in between. As a multiracial Chinese American teaching English in rural China, he brought an outsider’s attunement to the people and places he encountered, paying special attention to the power dynamics between expats and locals, teachers and students, men and women. His desire to make sense of this…| The Adroit Journal
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The day I started writing this essay, hundreds of U.S. Marines arrived in downtown Los Angeles, about ten miles from my home in Pasadena. They joined the 2,000 National Guardsmen already in the cit…| The Adroit Journal
Ocean Vuong’s latest novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is a bold and remarkable novel that captures the hopes and disillusionments of people living in today’s America. The story begins in the fictional town of East Gladness, Connecticut, with the unlikely encounter between the young Vietnamese-American man, Hai, who is planning to jump from a building,… The post A Review of Ocean Vuong’s The Emperor of Gladness appeared first on The Adroit Journal.| The Adroit Journal
When I decided to pursue an MFA in poetry, I applied widely and foolishly, and somehow accepted an offer from NYU—an offer I quickly questioned in my first workshop where, when introducing ourselves, I learned I was sitting next to a 23-year-old phenom already published in The New Yorker. Fuck, I thought, 26 and unpublished.…| The Adroit Journal
Before I ever stepped to a mic or submitted a poem to a press, music filled my ears, my head, my neighborhood, the kitchen in our household, the whining cassette player beneath my bed sheets. When I discovered poetry, I discovered it through music. My mother had a stack of Mead notebooks filled with her…| The Adroit Journal
Sponsored by African Poetry Book Fund and edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani, New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set Series is an annual publishing project that has been championing the works of a new generation of African poets since its inception in 2014. Alumni of the series include Warsan Shire, ‘Gbenga Adeoba, Leila Chatti, Hiwot Adilow, Romeo Oriogun, Rasaq Malik Gbolahan, D. M. Aderibigbe, Safia Elhillo, Inua Ellams, and Adedayo Adeyemi Agarau, among other luminaries. Th...| The Adroit Journal
Hedgie Choi is the author of the poetry collection Salvage, published by the University of Wisconsin Press. She received her MFA in poetry from the Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin, and her MFA in fiction from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. She lives in Chicago. *** Hedgie and I first discussed this… The post A Conversation With Hedgie Choi appeared first on The Adroit Journal.| The Adroit Journal
Handsome men, my Ptown cottage guests were all of Steve’s generation, in their fifties and sixties. I was in my late-thirties. They wanted to know what my parents had thought of me spending so much time with an older man when I was a teen. “Was your mom a fag hag?” a man with a… The post On Groom appeared first on The Adroit Journal.| The Adroit Journal
CMarie Fuhrman is the author of Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return and Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems and the co-editor of Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry and Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations. She has published poetry and nonfiction in numerous magazines, including Terrain.org, Emergence Magazine, The Ex-Puritan, Northwest Review, Yellow Medicine Review, Poetry…| The Adroit Journal
José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants, the co-author of the book of poems Home Court, and the co-host of the poetry podcast, the Poetry Gods. A winner of fellowships from Poets House, the Bronx Council on the Arts, the Poetry Foundation, & the Conversation Literary Festival, his work has been published in the BreakBeat Poets, the Chicago Tribune, the Adroit Journal, & Hyperallergic, among other places. His first book, Citizen Illegal, is forthcoming from Haymarket Books. He is from ...| The Adroit Journal
