Poetry Magazine, June 2026
140 x 228 mm, 88 pages
Chicago, US
Monthly
First published in 1912
Editor-in-chief: Adrian Matejka
Creative director: Fred Sasaki
Design: Pentagram
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 June 2026 bids a fond farewell to five freelance readers who have helped shaped the magazine’s editorial content over the past three years, featuring poetry by a host of writers including Ahmad Almallah, Jan Beatty, Despy Boutris, Tomás Q. Morín, Summer LoPriore, and more.
Plus, Susanna Lang pens an informative introduction to the love poems of Hélène Dorion, illuminating the ‘complex tension between holding on and letting go’ that runs throughout Dorion’s ‘Hearts, Books of Love’, excerpts of which are featured in translation inside.