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
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
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.