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
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
Interpersonal Intimacy
“I note They are / not common integers / but together, a unique fraction.”
Beneath St. Sebastian in Urbino
“as though truth and beauty / were so simple, as though such ancient suffering / were so necessary, as though there were nothing / more to this legend of violence and faith.”
The Microplastics in Me are the Microplastics in You
“A man stalked me through the forest yesterday. / There were three mass shootings yesterday. / Imagine anything else (it’s okay if we all do it).”
a love poem
“Dear God! / I pray this fire doesn’t warp me. when I start to / write love poems. without remembering my / brother.”
Dream Canto
“And then went down, like Odysseus. And Pound, / of course, to neither docks nor hell-chair, captive / in slumber’s vortex, weaponless, spiraling / to a crag-toothed island where one-eyed giants / roam, T.S. Eliot whines, and editors / issue red ink warrants.”
I Have Never Been Able To Write
“Now I will write no more, I’ll merely jeer. / Jeer even Anatole France himself”
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.”
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.