“Taizé” and “Old Lyme Rhyme” appear in Issue 38. *** Elizabeth Bishop said she didn’t have a clue how her poems got written. It’s tempting to disbelieve her disarming Yankee understatement. How…
The Latest
What was 1996? And what is it to us who now stand steeped in the…
The editors of The Adroit Journal are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2021 Adroit Prizes for Poetry & Prose, selected by Carl Phillips (poetry) and Samantha Hunt (prose). The Adroit…
There was a time when the surest sign of my affection was a mixtape: laboriously…
Is there such a thing as too much good poetry? My uncle, who made a lifelong habit of sending me copies of each of W.S. Merwin’s books upon publication, thought so. “He…
In his sophomore poetry collection, Andrés Cerpa’s sequence of fragments, letters, and lyrical reflections grapple…