In the poems there were layers—always a sense of some sort of tunneling beneath the surface of the actual, but what was the actual? If there was a thing beneath a thing,…
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I’m teaching this night class for adults on contemporary San Francisco poets. My father’s dying…
Kortney Morrow is the author of Run It Back (Saturnalia Books, 2026). She lives in Cleveland where she is the Program Director of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards—the nation’s only prize dedicated to…
Christian Wessels’s intricately wrought debut, Who Follow the Gleam, brims with sendings: supernatural interventions that…
We are thrilled to announce the winners and finalists of the 2026 Adroit Journal Editor’s Prizes in Poetry & Fiction! Through this pair of prizes, the editors recognize outstanding work in poetry…
In “Superject, Undercommons,” Yongyu Chen pauses to translate a French verb: “Partager—in one word, both…