SONTAG MAG
SONTAG MAG
Sontag Mag is a literary magazine publishing poetry, poetry-in-translation, and interviews triannually.
SUBMISSIONS
Sontag Mag accepts submissions of poetry and poetry-in-translation in January, May, and September.
FALL 2026
Columns at Sontag Mag are published triannually during the months of February to March, June to July, and October to November and include On the Diary by Anna Erre, In the Palm of the Erotic by Jenna Martínez, Alternate Address by Aanji Sin, and Off-Season by Sontag Mag Contributors.
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Daniel Moysaenko’s Overtakelessness Watches the Watchers
“The modern spectator believes that to look is already to know, to know is already to care, and to care is already to have done one’s part. The Ukraine perceived is present and untouchable. It is, to Anders and to Moysaenko, a “phantom” defined by its alienation to us”
Amarys Dejai in Conversation with American Poet Rachelle Toarmino
“I see doubt and doubling down—or curiosity and faith, wanting to know and giving in to not knowing—as the two defining qualities of my experience of thought. My poems are an extension of that experience, like a mind eavesdropping on itself. How thought feels.”
Lightproof
“Have I seen you take a detour? Even / once? You hum. You look sometimes / at the camera. 9pm in July you seem / withheld, almost, and for that reason / lit. Emphasized. Available. Animal. Or you would be.”
I Would Call You Girl
“earlier— / between early & / now, when Larissa / was my problem. Hair to her shoulders / Larissa, / she’s the one wearing yellow, / you’re the one / so beautiful with your shirt that hangs / drippy at your waist like that.”
Eternal Flame by the Bangles
“hearing you from the other room / I supergluemyeyestothewall / and only have to pay for eyelid surgery. / My astigmatism loosely buttoning the street / lamps to this hairy, milksome, / night, your / mouth whistling through leaves.”
In Which Ariel Is Selectively Mute
“Thought everything would be quieter because / they say it’s all just humming, Like a / shopping mall’s minute of silence / with the cashiers staring up at scaffolded / ceilings & Customers tucking in their chins / in the frozen aisle & God pinching hi-hats / with overgrown nails”
When I Think of the End
“I think of the brass / rings your father brought back / from Carcassonne, or Cassis, / where you could float / for years in the Aude”
The End of the Affair
“Lovers meet in the shade of a lotus tree / next to a bench splattered, muddied by water. / In the evenings, bold light showers us / as cardinals erupt from the gold-laced laburnum. / We shiver in the Carnegie looking for Klee”
Lilith, Lilith
“When the apple bit me, / sweet pooling into sweet, / I heard cherubim laughing, / felt soft feathered wings / caress each cheek”
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[I am a joy that moves towards you as we enter]
“when the war is ancient / the face hidden from the face so / the eyes are more beautiful”
The Fruit Hopes That Each Seed Will End Far From Its Own Body
“because it knows just how unfortunate it is / to die in the shadow of something greater / than itself”
I don't want to have sex because my body feels dead
“no body-illusion left in these flat layers / in my sodden tissue, everything said of trace / thins distance, lines unassertively drawn depths”
Interbeing
“In this trembling network, / I am no longer; we thicken / with restless porosity—/ otherwise known as love”
Meet the Sontag Team
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Asheley Nova Navarro
FOUNDING EDITOR
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Aiman Tahir Khan
ASSOCIATE POETRY EDITOR
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Aanji Sin
POETRY READER
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Aanya Mehta
POETRY READER
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Anna Erre
COLUMNIST
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Jai Michelle Louissen
POETRY READER
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Suzanne Claridge
POETRY READER
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Amarys Dejai
STAFF INTERVIEWER
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Rishi Janakiraman
STAFF REVIEWER
Sontag Mag Est. 2023
Sontag Mag is a literary magazine appearing triannually and devoted to fostering a community of poets and translators and promoting works exceptional in craft.