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/WINTER 2024
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Experiment — To Meet a Dead Lover
“you unite the five elements of / nature. Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space, within you & around you. It produces absolute silence; coin / lands amid heads & tails; upright. You enter a void; it’s not the purgatory.”
Meet Your Maker
“Doomed be Poseidon and his raging oceans / As you crossed the sea on nothing but your wooden raft.”
Perfect Disappearances
“so you write it on your own skin / and walk off into the world alone / with the whole world in your hand.
41 Kilometers
“Forty kilometers — only a kilometer short of Gaza’s land size. For free / people, 41 kilometers is a surreal flight to space. For Palestinians, home and a death sentence.”
Alive to Beauty
“In my notebook, I write fragments / About things that make me feel awe — / The way sunlight catches water, / The way fallen fruit rests on the ground. / Next to this list, I write words: / Undoing, being undone.”
Stingrays Asleep
“Brand new promotion, I’m tired like my thermostat. / Wormholes and axes and scourges of men flaunter. / Pollution of life — family doesn’t give back sometimes. / Find a nest and try to feel alright.”
The Body is a Glorified Hotel
“Though the walls are frequently claustrophobic, confining / And the constant familiarity of our company / Is simultaneously too much and too little, / Too routine and too alien, / This glorified hotel, our body, our flesh, / Is our shelter, perfect imperfections and all”
Statewide-Lockdown, Day Thirty-Eight
“Too many variables. / Also, irrational beings on Earth. / One spark burns a forest. / One misstep pulls society down a well.”
Meet the Sontag Team
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Asheley Nova Navarro
FOUNDING EDITOR
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Aanji Sin
POETRY READER
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Amarys Dejai
INTERVIEW STAFF
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Aanya Mehta
POETRY READER
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Aiman Tahir Khan
POETRY READER
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Anna Erre
POETRY READER
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.