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.
SPRING/SUMMER 2026
COLUMNSSontag Mag will publish columns beginning in 2026. The first, “Off-Season,” is a space for contributors to share insight into their reading and writing lives, from resolutions to dialogues to contemplations, and is published in our “off-season,” or outside of our regularly scheduled volumes.
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Padam, Padam
“as Barcelona without a Virgin under / a canopy, but there is no Barcelona / without our Virgin, especially on Good / Friday of dark candles”
Guilty Parties
“Time to make up for lost bank notes, / The ones I hid in my bra, / The watch I stole when I was twelve, / The Claddagh ring, / Silver and ridged, two hands / Enfolding / Time / She never indicated it was missing.”
Nothing New Under the Sun
“is like smoking is like fucking is like masturbating is like / pretending is like lying is like praying is like dreaming is like spending is like binging”
Lopud Island
“The limits of flesh, / tan-lines, and olives / by the bed. Time away / and time away — / Her torso tightens as / a current moves in her”
Six Days in a Heavy Lungful
“Sublimating these tomato walls / Sticking apart how often did I / Spend six days in a heavy lungful”
Cold Front
“There are so many / unexpected ways language can change, like when / cold wind crawls in from the north overnight and in a scar-dewed morning, I still catch myself / talking about staying in for the day, / saying ‘we should’ instead of ‘we used to.’”
In Search for a Master
“Another / time, I heard that the order of love is the order of God, but / whose orders do you take when no master speaks to you?”
The Other Self
“If nothing else — / These nude notes / Being played behind the curtain / Where the stage is, By soloist strings / And hermit woodwinds — / Are far hopes / Of uncertain / Opening chords / Calling out / To the duet / I haven’t come to yet.”
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”
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
POETRY READER
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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.