Poetry Magazine, May 2026
140 x 228 mm, 96 pages
Chicago, US
Monthly
First published in 1912
Editor-in-chief: Adrian Matejka
Creative director: Fred Sasaki
Cover design: Marta Cerdà Alimbau
Founded by Harriet Monroe—editor, poet and patron of the arts—Poetry Magazine prides itself on publishing the best of contemporary poetry since 1912. It boasts the likes of T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Frank O’Hara, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore and Rabindranath Tagore amongst the names it has championed over the past century.
In its current iteration, designed in a slim format by Pentagram, you’ll primarily find English-language poetry and some prose inside, though each issue also features a number of works in translation. This edition for May 2026 features work by a host of writers, including Tracey K.Smith, Carl Phillips, Maria Zoccola, Saddiq Dzukogi, Cornelius Eady, Kelly Norman Ellis and more.
Plus, you’ll also find a special section from Marcus Jackson pairing poetry and photography in a series inspired by the poem ‘Those Winter Sundays’ by Robert Hayden, examining the strength required to remain compassionate in contemporary American society.