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
Humboldt Park
“the Retriever sprints across the fields, clutching / the ball in its jaw, / not harsh to look at. to stare into / the sun on the horizon line.”
The Igbo word for death without the ‘w’ means joy
“He speaks in Igbo / so that the word for death rather comes out as joy. / I’m so happy this morning, I have death-joy in my hands, he beams.”
Platonic Drift
“The other half of the story / returning home, with no land to possess, / just old blood and floodwater – / you and I again – singing with our lungs full.”
Purple Pill
“I like my pills purple, so I can love deeply and / hypothesize catastrophe, / all at once.”
Report Error, Smile
“I still see empty seats at my funeral. / My destiny’s been upgraded in fragments. / “Not funny,” I report error, I smile.”
Vanishing Point
“he doesn’t care that a boy, a brother – / you – are missing, are a city away.”
Parallels and Meridians
“forget who’s / president – i want to know where you’ll be in 2028, and who you’ll be when you’re 40.”
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.’”
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.