Poetry Magazine, July/August 2026
140 x 228 mm, 112 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 double edition for July/August 2026 celebrates writing as resistance, featuring poetry by a host of writers including Patricia Lockwood, Fred D’Aguiar, Jordan Landsman, Iyanuoluwa Adenle, Quinn Franzen, Jay Gao, Natalie Louise Tombasco, and more.
Plus, you’ll also find an essay by Jos Charles on finding inspiration in the idiolect of E.E. Cummings, as well as a special folio spotlighting the writing of ten exiled poets—‘all of whom faced persecution, war, or genocide, as well as threats to their safety because of their writing’—accompanied by an introduction co-authored by City of Asylum/Detroit program founders Laura Kraftowitz and Edward Salem.