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
Dieter with the Tulips, Munich, 1984 (Nan Goldin)
“Of all the portraits, this. Spare / morning, Garden of Eden. Apples, / tulips, butter-knife and the body / terrified of separation, / from God—no, of separation.”
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[I saw how, once connected, we made a shape]
“and the shape had a name though not / in a language we know, which is different / from a language one speaks. A language one / speaks has form.”
In another life, I’m sure we’re two frogs on a leaf
“一日三秋, three autumns in a sunrise, the first sunrise in three autumns. I miss you. / Yes, let the imagery head home. Yes, the light pins itself to your cheek.”
an attempt to gather rosebuds
“As if one could determine the quality of a place by the type of flowering / tree outside the window where one most writes.”
GHAZAL FOR HELEN
“The metaphor of oil is tiresome unless one has spent a life / Taxed and retaxed in the currency of oceans’ mezzotinted oil”
American Highway
“We’re driving / through a desert that used to be a park, used to be lake, swamp, hiding place. / We’re on the run. It’s a movie.”
Sometimes When I Say Ohio
“I mean this endless field between us / this state where we have not kissed / kissed but only once”
Love, Explained by Flying Foxes
“Or perhaps memory is a poor archivist, / saying what it finds beautiful, / or strange”
Spirit Animal
“I open the door. / ‘May as well come in,’ I say, / charmed by the chestnut bird / he’s brought me.”
Always in Refusal, Alina Ștefănescu’s “My Heresies” Is a Remarkable Collection
“To continue to speak long after catastrophe is to risk language becoming its own kind of heresy.”
Leigh Sugar Powerfully Confronts Love Within the Prison-Industrial Complex in “FREELAND”
“FREELAND’s authority is its refusal to sentimentalize the things we normally reach for when poetry fails—love, memory, justice.”
Amarys Dejai in Conversation with Cuban-Peruvian Poet Sara Daniele Rivera
“We are here, our experiences matter.”
Amarys Dejai in Conversation with American Poet Jeremy Michael Clark
“I think there’s value in wanting consistency … But I also think it’s important to allow yourself to just be in the world, to experience it, and see what you encounter.”
A Morning’s Apology
“The wood thrush begins / a gentle song, threading its music through / the quiet.”
I heard your feelings
“Chewing up the valley like cold / teeth. At the snout end, evidence / of mass strandings, / beached sediment.”
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.