Poetry Magazine, November 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 October, Poetry debuted an updated new look and Pegasus logo—waving goodbye to its evolving guest-designed titular font that dominated the page—and instead bringing extracts from the poems themselves to the fore; ‘I tell you nothing is bigger than the mind,’ for example, reads the sunny yellow cover of this edition. Across the issue, Poetry devotees may also notice a switch up in font styles.
Inside, the magazine sustains its commitment to ‘presenting the cornucopia of contemporary poetry,’ featuring poetry by a host of writers including Meg Day, Angela Jackson, Brittany Rogers, Tomaž Šalamun tr. by Brian Henry, Jaswinder Bolina, Marion Wrenn, Li-Young Lee, and more.
Plus, readers can also expect a special folio devoted to Robert Pinsky—winner of the 2026 instalment of the prestigious Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize—and prose by Hera Lindsey Bird and Sandra Simonds, on ‘jealousy’ and ‘humiliation’.