A Conversation with Carl Phillips In the Blood, Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips’s debut collection, was rereleased last month, over three decades after its original publication. The book signaled the arrival of a singular, ne…

Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social's blog: @izineh.bsky.social interviews @cphillipspoet.bsky.social. Carl's debut, IN THE BLOOD, has been re-released from @fsgbooks.bsky.social. I remember devouring this beautiful book when it originally appeared in the mid-90s.

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A Conversation between Genevieve DeGuzman and Kate Gaskin To read Genevieve DeGuzman’s Karaoke at the End of the World (JackLeg Press, 2026) is to undergo a crash course in marvels. Woven through this debut collection are complex relational intricacies be…

Read @kategaskin.bsky.social and @gendeguzman.bsky.social convo today up @adroitjournal.bsky.social.

Genevieve's new book is KARAOKE AT THE END OF THE WORLD (@jacklegpress.bsky.social) and Kate's is A RED KNOCK-KNOCKING LIKE A HEART (@lsupress.bsky.social).

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2. Why not review a book that you love for @adroitjournal.bsky.social or @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social or @raintaxi.bsky.social or another journal that still covers books? We need sharp criticism and writing, which I believe can help us thwart these insidious AI algorithms designed to feed us slop.

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1. Read this inspiring piece in NYT about the unforeseen power of book reviews that changed the literary trajectories of Annie Proulx and Larry McMurtry.

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Check out Bobby Elliot's essay "On Shame and Rejection" on @adroitjournal.bsky.social's blog today.

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A Conversation with Elisa Shua Dusapin I have admired Elisa’s evocative prose and intimate stories ever since I discovered Winter in Sokcho in French at my hometown local bookstore while on vacation in France. Ten years later, it is a…

Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social: Sophie Hamel interviews Elisa Shua Dusapin about her new novel, THE OLD FIRE.

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A Review of Will Brewer’s Nocturama A nocturama is an architectural device: a controlled, low-light habitat in which nocturnal animals can be observed during manufactured daylight. Visitors enter a reversed world where creatures accu…

Will Brewer's NOCTURAMA, from @milkweededitions.bsky.social, reviewed today in @adroitjournal.bsky.social. Thanks to Sean Cho A. for this smart criticism.

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A Review of D.S. Waldman’s Atria It feels appropriate that D.S. Waldman’s debut poetry collection, Atria, opens with the speaker looking at the work of the artist Alexander Calder. Calder’s mobiles and Waldman’s poetry could be di…

Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social: Ryan Teitman reviews D.S. Waldman's new collection, ATRIA.

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A Conversation with Richie Hofmann Richie Hofmann is the recipient of a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2025 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His poetry appears in two previous collections, A Hundred …

Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social: Our very own Ben Regan Marra interviews poet Richie Hofmann. Richie's new book is THE BRONZE ARMS, just out from @aaknopf.bsky.social.

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Writing from Innocence: A Conversation with Evgeniya Dame Evgeniya Dame’s “Mother, Tongue” follows two women navigating a teacher’s training college in Samara, Russia. Language sits at the forefront of the story, less a subject of study for its narrator t…

Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social: Michael Costaris's interviews fiction writer @evgeniyadame.bsky.social about her story "Mother, Tongue" in our most recent issue.

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Issue Fifty-Six Visit the post for more.

Read @adroitjournal.bsky.social's Larry Levis project with essays by David St. John, @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social, James Ciano, @lizajohnson1.bsky.social, Jon Pineda, @sharalessley.bsky.social, @cubistoctopus.bsky.social, @nxo.bsky.social, @megg-bean.bsky.social.

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From Grant Faulkner and Gail Butensky’s something out there in the distance “How do you describe a person?” How do you describe a person? Is it their smell, the rhythm of their breaths? The way they pinch their lips without even knowing it, the crimp of their brow? …

Check out today's blog post @adroitjournal.bsky.social, an excerpt from Grant Faulkner and Gail Butensky's SOMETHING OUT THERE IN THE DISTANCE.

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A Review of Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s The New Economy Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s The New Economy, published by Copper Canyon Press in October 2025, is a portal of hauntings and extraordinary song, summoning readers to have courage amidst their own sorro…

Livia Meneghin reviews @gabbat.bsky.social's THE NEW ECONOMY today @adroitjournal.bsky.social, calling it "a portal of hauntings and extraordinary song, summoning readers to have courage amidst their own sorrows."

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A Review of Lana Lin’s The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam My copy of Gertrude Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas features two portraits on its cover. The first, depicting a sepia-toned Stein with her famous cropped haircut, takes up over half th…

Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social: Adrian Lue reviews Lana Lin's THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM, just out from @dorothyproject.bsky.social.

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A Review of Olga Ravn’s The Wax Child Musk and petrichor waft from the pages of Olga Ravn’s third novel, The Wax Child. The novel details the tragedy of 17th-century Danish women condemned for witchcraft, as told in first-p…

Today on @adroitjournal.bsky.social's blog: Abby Lacelle reviews Olga Ravn's third book, THE WAX CHILD. New Directions published the novel in September.

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A Conversation with Varun Ravindran This interview took place in a courtyard outside of Varun’s Pittsburgh apartment on a summer evening in July. The sound of cicadas, crows, and blue jays called out during our conversation. Varun an…

Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social: Mike Good interviews Varun Ravindran, whose debut, BETWEENNESS, was just published by Baobab Press.

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A Review of Kim Simonsen’s What good does it do for a person to wake up one morning this side of the new millennium In What good does it do for a person to wake up one morning this side of the new millennium, Faroese poet Kim Simonsen suggests we have the opportunity to encounter the universe in every person: “T…

Katy Dycus reviews Faroese poet Kim Simonsen’s WHAT GOOD DOES IT DO FOR A PERSON TO WAKE UP ONE MORNING THIS SIDE OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM today @adroitjournal.bsky.social.

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A Conversation with Ally Ang Ally Ang is a gaysian poet & editor based in Seattle. Their work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, The Seattle Met, and elsewhere. Ally is a National…

Today @adroitjournal.bsky.social: @poetryphone.bsky.social interviews @theoceanisgay.bsky.social about their new book just out from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social, LET THE MOON WOBBLE.

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Today at @adroitjournal.bsky.social: Danielle Shi reviews Austyn Wohlers's HOTHOUSE BLOOM, out this fall from Hub City Press.

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A Conversation with Emily Mitchell Emily Mitchell is the author of The Last Summer of the World (W. W. Norton), a novel, and two collections of short stories: Viral (W. W. Norton, 2015); and The Church of Divine Electricity, winner …

Emily Mitchell's THE CHURCH OF DIVINE ELECTRICITY reviewed today @adroitjournal.bsky.social. Many thanks to @allisonwyss.bsky.social for this smart critical piece.

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A Conversation with Spencer Reece Visit the post for more.

We've got lots more great reading in @adroitjournal.bsky.social #55, which launched yesterday. Here's a conversation with Spencer Reece conducted by Kimberley Grey. Spencer's most recent book of poems is ACTS, from @fsgbooks.bsky.social.

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A Conversation with Aracelis Girmay Visit the post for more.

More from @adroitjournal.bsky.social's 55th issue: @rbjrichardson.bsky.social interviews Aracelis Girmay.

"When I was in June Jordan’s archives, over a decade ago now, I found several loose sheets of paper where she was working on a revision..."

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A Conversation with Bobby Elliott Visit the post for more.

And here's Colby Cotton's @adroitjournal.bsky.social interview with poet Bobby Elliott. His new book is THE SAME MAN, just out from the University of Pittsburgh Press.

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You Have to Be Ferocious: A Conversation with Rita Dove Visit the post for more.

@adroitjournal.bsky.social Issue #55 is out! Check out Lisa Russ Spaar's new column and interviews with Aracelis Girmay, Spencer Reece, Teresa Dzieglewicz, and Bobby Elliott. AND: we've got a fantastic interview with Rita Dove.

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