Adi Spring 2025 Open Call for Poetry | How to Submit ($150)
Submit to Adi’s Spring 2025 Open Call for Poetry
Adi seeks bold, expansive poetic visions—political but never didactic, personal yet globally resonant. The journal looks for work that draws on alternative political traditions, especially those suppressed by economic, religious, socio-cultural, or colonial forces. Adi especially welcomes submissions that center the Global South and speak to liberation theologies, grassroots resistance, and revolutionary philosophies.
Still, the invitation remains open to all marginalized voices across the world. Whether exploring alternative economies, subversive strategies, or imaginative futures, your poem should unsettle the status quo and reorient the envisioning of politics and poetry alike.
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What Kind of Poetry Does Adi Publish?
Adi’s editorial team embraces experimentation. They favor work that blurs genres, embraces the absurd, and delves into interior experience as much as global policy. The poetry must analyze, fabulize, disturb, delight, and ignite—never flatten or moralize.
Over the years, Adi has featured acclaimed poets like Tracy K. Smith, Franny Choi, Fady Joudah, Hala Alyan, Evie Shockley, and Airea D. Matthews. One special issue even focused entirely on poets responding to policy. Writers who aim to stand out should challenge poetic norms and approach politics with originality, passion, and a fresh lens.
Submission Guidelines for Adi’s Spring 2025 Open Call for Poetry
- Submit up to five unpublished poems, no more than ten pages total
- Send only one submission at a time
- Wait for a response before submitting again
- Simultaneous submissions are allowed—please withdraw accepted pieces immediately
- Adi does not accept AI-generated submissions
- Adi rejects hate speech and all discriminatory language
Deadline: May 31, 2025, at 11:59 PM (ET)
Calling All Translators
Adi welcomes unpublished translations of poets who fit this call. If you’re working on a translation that’s not yet complete, feel free to email a blurb about the poet and piece, and the editors will follow up. If the translation is already finished, you can submit directly through the regular submission portal.
What Is Adi?
Adi is a feminist literary journal of global politics, founded in 2019. The Tamil word Adi carries three meanings: protest, intervention, and violence—each reflected in the journal’s mission to platform writing that combines political urgency with creative innovation. Adi centers lived experience, radical possibility, and formal inventiveness.
Past contributors include Terese Mailhot, Nadifa Mohamed, Meena Kandasamy, K-Ming Chang, Rafia Zakaria, and many others shaping global political literature.
To learn more or explore Adi’s archives, visit Adi Journal.
