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Sontag Mag publishes poetry, poetry-in-translation, and interviews triannually. Read Volume 5 below:
Atlanta, Georgia
Joined November 2023
“In another life, I’m sure we’re two frogs on a leaf” by Michelle Li (Sontag Mag, Vol. 5). Read the rest of Li’s poem in Sontag Mag’s Fifth Volume, available now through the link in our bio.
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“I blushed like a cousin of iris. Though I saw,.yes, the trill of ashes; I ran to the fire in my longest dress.”. “Sphagia” by Kale Hensley (Sontag Mag, Vol. 5). Read the rest of Hensley’s poem in Sontag Mag’s Fifth Volume, available now through the link in our bio.
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“We are here, our experiences matter.”. Sara Daniele Rivera In Conversation with Amarys Dejai for Sontag Mag, available now in Vol. 5, Summer/Fall 2025, linked in our bio.
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Sontag Mag Volume 5 is now live, ft. an interview with Sara Daniele Rivera, reviews of Alina Ștefănescu’s “My Heresies” and Leigh Sugar’s “FREELAND,” and poetry and translations by Alisha Dietzman, Shangyang Fang, and Javeria Hasnain, among others. Read it in full (link in bio).
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Pt. 2 of our #SealeyChallenge recommendations . There is no wrong way to #SealeyChallenge … choose to shop, check out books, revisit, interchange, or read one poem a day via a literary magazine or another similar platform.
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(2/3) We’d like to highlight that purchasing books to read is not the only way to participate. Check out books at your local library, revisit books you’ve already read, interchange, or take the small yet equally significant step of reading one poem a day.
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#SealeyChallenge is more than just a challenge—it’s an opportunity to interact, share, and uplift writers and readers by joining in reading one book per day during the month of August. Sontag Mag has curated recommendations to read and share during the month of August and beyond.
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Sontag Mag has nominated Nianxi Chen’s “That Night, We Walked along the Dan River” translated by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor and Kuo Zhang from Volume 4 for Best of the Net 2026. Read an excerpt below:. “These small things of the ages .all know us.”.
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Sontag Mag has nominated Ali C’s “thisbe on the walls” from Volume 4 for Best of the Net 2026. Read an excerpt below:. “Once, a person can enter a house / only to find there is no door behind them, just a vast endless corpse of wood blocking their way.”.
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Sontag Mag’s new issue loading …. Meanwhile, browse our archives from Volumes 1 through 4 below:.
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Sontag Mag closes to submissions of poetry and poetry-in-translation in 36 days. Send us a maximum of three poems and/or translations with the subject line ‘Name — # of poems’ to submissions@sontagmag.com. Volume 5 will be released in August.
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Aiman Tahir Khan joined the Sontag team in 2024 as a Poetry Reader and has since gone above and beyond to push the boundaries of poetics in her newly appointed role as Associate Poetry Editor and as the first Youth Poet Laureate of Pakistan in English. Congrats, Aiman!
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We’re open to submissions at Sontag Mag until July 1st. Send us a maximum of three poems and/or translations to submissions@sontagmag.com with the subject line “Name — Number of Poems” to be considered for publication!. We look forward to reading your work!.
Sontag Mag is open to submissions of poetry and poetry-in-translation from May 1st to July 1st. Read our full submission guidelines linked here (and in our bio): . We look forward to reading your work!
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Rishi Janakiraman has been named Youth Poet Laureate of North Carolina. Janakiraman has recently joined the staff at Sontag Mag as a Staff Reviewer. Congratulations, Rishi!
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Sontag Mag is open to submissions of poetry and poetry-in-translation from May 1st to July 1st. Read our full submission guidelines linked here (and in our bio): . We look forward to reading your work!
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Sontag Mag is looking for poetry readers to join our team. As a poetry reader, you will be responsible for reading through the magazine’s submissions during three annual reading periods. Apply through the application linked here (also linked in bio):
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“Once, a person can enter a house / only to find that there is no door behind them, just a vast endless corpse of wood blocking their way.”. Read the rest of “thisbe on the walls” by Ali C (@alicxyz) in Sontag Mag’s fourth volume, linked in our bio.
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“I watched it crawl backwards against / the edge and bloom like it knew of its extinction.”. Read the rest of “Torture” by Lara Chamoun in Sontag Mag’s fourth volume, linked here:
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“I never wanted children so naturally / I had them. All my daughter cells hate me. / All the places I’ve kissed bad men / have closed down.”. Read the rest of “Dear Pine Forest II by Gustav Klimt,” by Chrissy Stegman in Sontag Mag’s fourth volume, linked in our bio.
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“Meanwhile, / in the yard, the grass is poking / its head up, joining hands / with the dandelions and clover, / breaking bread with the bees. / Meanwhile, in the yard, / the grass has never felt so alive.”. Read “Lawncare” by Doug Fritock, linked in our bio.
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