David Roderick
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Author of THE AMERICANS and BLUE COLONIAL. @NEAarts Fellow. Director of Content @adroitjournal. Director @leftmarginlit. Editor-at-Large @PressUnbound.
Berkeley, CA
Joined March 2014
Important Read Alert! . Here's Christopher Santiago's original essay, "On Small Wars Here and Abroad." Up today @adroitjournal. Chris's new book is SMALL WARS MANUAL. It came out in April from @Milkweed_Books.
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The day I started writing this essay, hundreds of U.S. Marines arrived in downtown Los Angeles, about ten miles from my home in Pasadena. They joined the 2,000 National Guardsmen already in the city....
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Today @adroitjournal: @jenwithwords reviews Ocean Vuong's THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS.
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Ocean Vuong’s latest novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is a bold and remarkable novel that captures the hopes and disillusionments of people living in today’s America. The story begins in the fictional...
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Leigh Sugar's essay "If and Abolition" is up today @adroitjournal. Leigh's new book is FREELAND, just out from @AliceJamesBooks.
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When I decided to pursue an MFA in poetry, I applied widely and foolishly, and somehow accepted an offer from NYU—an offer I quickly questioned in my first workshop where, when introducing ourselves,...
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Anthony Thomas Lombardi's original essay, "Ghosts in the Shortwave & the Rhythm of the Streets" appears today @adroitjournal. Anthony's debut collection, MURMURATIONS, is out this month from YESYES Books. Don't miss it!.
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Before I ever stepped to a mic or submitted a poem to a press, music filled my ears, my head, my neighborhood, the kitchen in our household, the whining cassette player beneath my bed sheets. When I...
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My next book, DARKNESS FOR BEGINNERS, has found a home at @Omnidawn. Spring of '27. Many thanks to editors Rusty Morrison and Laura Joakimson. And also you, @mawsheinwin!
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Ancci (Arasi Kamolideen Oluwapelumi) reviews poetry chapbooks by Sarpong Osei Asamoah, @claudiaowusuaa, and Nome Emeka Patrick today @adroitjournal. These chaps are part of the NEW-GENERATION AFRICAN POETS series, edited by @kwamedawes and @chrisabani.
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Become a member of COYOTE. We need more news outlets in the Bay Area.
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A new alt-weekly-style publication is hitting the Bay Area
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Up at @adroitjournal's blog today, Jackson Holbert chats with Hedgie Choi about her debut poetry collection just out from the University of Wisconsin Press. It's titled SALVAGE.
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Hedgie Choi is the author of the poetry collection Salvage, published by the University of Wisconsin Press. She received her MFA in poetry from the Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin, and her...
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Today @adroitjournal: Check out Austin Segrest's essay about his new book of poems, GROOM, just published by Unbound Edition Press.
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Handsome men, my Ptown cottage guests were all of Steve’s generation, in their fifties and sixties. I was in my late-thirties. They wanted to know what my parents had thought of me spending so much...
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Today @adroitjournal: @AnnMVanderveen interviews Sarah Vahm. Sarah's new book was just published by Dzanc. UNFINISHED ACTS OF WILD CREATION.
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Sarah Yahm is a freelance writer, radio producer and educator who has been published in Slate, The Bellevue Literary Review, and NPR and its affiliates. Unfinished Acts of Wild Creation was awarded...
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Today @adroitjournal: David Egan reviews Oli Hazzard's SLEEPERS AWAKE, just out from @fsgbooks.
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Just posted @adroitjournal: @JoseHernandezDz's original essay "Odes as a Poetic Response to the Fear and Hate of My Brown Community." . Check out Jose's new book from @RedHenPress, PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A BROWN MAN.
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The inspiration for the opening “odes” in my new book Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man was my desire to voice resistance to the constant racism aimed at the Latinx communities in the very...
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Hilary Sun reviews Saou Ichikawa's HUNCHBACK today @adroitjournal. The book was published this spring by @HogarthBooks.
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Today @adroitjournal: @thedwmckinney interviews Keetje Kuipers about her new book of poems out from @boaeditions titled LONELY WOMEN MAKE GOOD LOVERS.
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Keetje Kuipers’s fourth poetry collection, Lonely Women Make Good Lovers (BOA Editions, 2025), is a passionate exploration of the self—in all its forms—in relation to the world. A wife’s pregnant...
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Up at @adroitjournal today: Hafsa Zulfiqar reviews janan alexandra's COME FROM, just out from @boaeditions.
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Today @adroitjournal: Afton Montgomery interviews CMarie Fuhrman about her new book, SALMON WEATHER: WRITING FROM THE LAND OF NO RETURN.
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CMarie Fuhrman is the author of Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return and Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems and the co-editor of Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry and Native...
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Jason Barry reviews C. Dale Young's BUILDING THE PERFECT ANIMAL, just out from @FourWayBooks.
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RT @YukitTanaka: I wrote an essay on poetry, lightness, and the imagination for @adroitjournal—huge thanks to the wonderful Adroit team!.ht….
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If I were to choose one principle that guided me while writing my first full-length poetry collection, Chronicle of Drifting (Copper Canyon Press, 2025), it would be Italo Calvino’s notion of...
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Today @adroitjournal: Yuki Tanaka's original essay, "Poetry and Lightness." Yuki's debut poetry collection, CHRONICLE OF DRIFTING, just came out from @CopperCanyonPrs, and it's fantastic. Highly recommend!.
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If I were to choose one principle that guided me while writing my first full-length poetry collection, Chronicle of Drifting (Copper Canyon Press, 2025), it would be Italo Calvino’s notion of...
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If you live west of the Mississippi, HIGH COUNTRY NEWS is essential reading. Thanks to poetry editor Paisley Rekdal and the rest of the staff at HCN for publishing my poem "Coyote.".
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A poem by David Roderick.
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