Poetry Magazine, September 2026
140 x 228 mm, 96 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 September 2026 edition celebrates both ‘diverse aesthetics’ and ‘diverse perspectives’, featuring poetry by a host of writers including Carolyn Forché, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Paul Martínez Pompa, Joseph Earl Thomas, Dorothea Lasky, and more.
Plus, you’ll also find two special folios: the first spotlighting the writing of eight ‘Two-Spirit and Indigequeer’ poets, featured in a new anthology edited by Crisosto Apache and Julian Tanya, the latter delving into the poetry and collages of the late avant-garde jazz musician and multidisciplinary artist Ted Joans.