Join us on October 24, 2023 at 8PM to celebrate Adroit's 47th issue with a reading featuring some of this issue's contributors!
The editors of The Adroit Journal are thrilled to welcome you to a reading celebrating the release of our forty-seventh issue, hosted by Divya Mehrish!
Join via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81757218321
Readers will include:
Ahmad Almallah
Diannely Antigua
Kinsale Drake
Cora Enterline
Kelly X. Hui
Amanda Machado
Cintia Santana
Ahmad Almallah was born in Bethlehem, Palestine, and moved to the states when he was 18. His first book of poems in English is BITTER ENGLISH (Chicago 2019). His second is BORDER WISDOM (Winter Editions 2023). Other poems and prose of his in Arabic and in English are out there. He is Artist in Residence at UPenn.
Diannely Antigua is a Dominican American poet and educator, born and raised in Massachusetts. Her debut collection Ugly Music (YesYes Books, 2019) was the winner of the Pamet River Prize and a 2020 Whiting Award. Her second collection, Good Monster, is forthcoming with Copper Canyon Press in 2024. She received her MFA at NYU and was awarded a Global Research Initiative Fellowship to Florence, Italy. She is the recipient of additional fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, CantoMundo, Community of Writers, and the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program. She teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the University of New Hampshire as the inaugural Nossrat Yassini Poet in Residence. She hosts the podcast Bread & Poetry and is currently the Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, NH.
Kinsale Drake (Diné) is a poet, playwright, and performer based out of the Southwest. Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Poets.org, Best New Poets, Black Warrior Review, Nylon, MTV, Teen Vogue, Time, and elsewhere. She recently graduated from Yale University, where she received the J. Edgar Meeker Prize, the Academy of American Poets College Prize, the Young Native Playwrights Award, and the 2022 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize. She was named by Time Magazine as an artist representing her decade “changing how we see the world,” and is the founder of NDN Girls Book Club (www.ndngirlsbookclub.org).
Cora Enterline is a graduate student of Comparative Literature at Trinity College Dublin and nonfiction editor at The Spotlong Review. Her writing has appeared in Psaltery & Lyre and Hominum Journal. In her free time she hosts a wine club and literary salon.
Kelly X. Hui is a student journalist, abolitionist community organizer, and ghost writer (person who writes about ghosts). She is a Mellon Mays fellow studying English, Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago. In her free time, she works as a barista in the basement coffee shop of the divinity school.
Amanda E. Machado is a writer whose work has been published in The Atlantic, Guernica, The Washington Post, Slate, The Guardian, and more. In addition to their essay writing, Amanda also is a public speaker and workshop facilitator on issues of justice and anti-oppression for organizations around the world. She currently lives on unceded Ohlone land in Oakland.
Cintia Santana's work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Guernica, The Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, Narrative, Pleaides, Poetry Northwest, Poem-a-Day, The Threepenny Review, and West Branch. She is the recipient of fellowships from CantoMundo and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and her poems have been selected for Best New Poets 2016 and 2020, as well as the 2023 Best of the Net Anthology. She teaches fiction and poetry workshops in Spanish, as well as literary translation courses at Stanford University. Her first poetry collection, The Disordered Alphabet, was published by Four Way Books in September 2023.
