"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-fifty-...

“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-fifty-...

"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-fifty-...

A close-up of Hannah Altman's photograph "One Hollow to Another" from Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

For the penultimate day of #LitMagWeek, we’re remembering Tin House, a gone but not forgotten quarterly we dearly miss. litmagweek.com

Today’s #LitMagWeek is dedicated to a magazine we love: @kenyonreview! litmagweek.com

“Today is a special day. Anne and I get to skip school and attend a memorial for someone who has died. Anne thinks it is our mother, but I’m fairly certain our mother has been dead many years.”

Read Skyler Melnick’s "Merge" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

Happy Lit Mag Week! We’re slinging our popular Adroit dad hats for 10% off through October 2.

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“ a house finch
breaks from the brush
of marsh mallows
in morning”

Read Anastasia K. Gates' poem "Emily Brontë" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

"I am very interested in language’s capacity to flatten experience. Canned language, dead language, plots, self-narrativization."

Read a conversation with Avigayl Sharp in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

A close-up of Kim Suttell's piece "We Should Meet in Another Life" from Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

"There is no why. When, like a vestibule/designed for carrying sheaves, you enter that day/empty-handed. And the sun leaves"

Read Michelle Phương Hồ's "Vilomah" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

"I know what to expect and it is not because of anything my mother has taught me."

Read Tryphena Yeboah’s "Home Remedies" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

"Form is both an ocular and auditory manifestation of poetry."

Read a conversation between Adrian Matejka and Evan Goldstein in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2026 Adroit’s Editor’s Prizes in Poetry & Fiction! 🎉

Read more about the winners & finalists here: theadroitjournal.org/editors-priz...

Call for visual artists! We're looking for work that's capable of shifting perspective and stays with us long after we’ve encountered it. We welcome works across mediums: textiles, ceramics, embroidery, sculpture, photography, painting, and beyond. adroit.submittable.com/submit

We're open! Send us your best poetry, prose, and translations by October 31. adroit.submittable.com/submit

“The storm reached Jacksonville long after the newscasters said it would.”

Read Sarah Kay's poem "Two Boys on the Subway" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

“Into her chest sash he chiseled/Michelangelo Buonarroti made this/and lived long enough to regret it”

Read Kathy Fagan’s poem "Naturalism" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

“Every day I try to draw a horse./(The grotesque performs its own recompense.)”

Read KT Herr’s poem "The Horses" in Issue Fifty-Eight: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...