Poetry Foundation Magazine, Volume 223, Issue #1, October 2023

Poetry Foundation Magazine

by Adrian Matejka (Editor)

October 2023 Issue

Genres: Poetry

94 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2023

About the author

Adrian Matejka was born in Nuremberg, Germany but grew up in California and Indiana. He is a graduate of Indiana University and the MFA program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His first collection of poems, The Devils Garden, won the 2002 Kinereth Gensler Award from Alice James Books. His second collection, Mixology, was a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series and was published by Penguin Books in 2009. Mixology was subsequently nominated for an NAACP Image Award. He is a Cave Canem fellow and is the recipient of two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry 2010, Crab Orchard Review, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, and Prairie Schooner among other journals and anthologies. He teaches at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville where he serves as Poetry Editor for Souwester."

Reviews

[Samuel Smith]

Favorites: "Removal Act," "In the House by the Sea," "On Boredom" (really enjoying these "Hard Feelings" essays), "Against Opulence," "Anaphora Using Wilfred Owen's Line 'If you could hear, at every jolt'"

[Kiera Safford · Rating 5 out of 5]

Favorite issue so far!! Siken deserves the recognition, I found myself reading and rereading Sidewalk for most of the month. My favorite modern poet being featured during my birth month was a special treat, I absolutely adored this fall collection. I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers

[nkp · Rating 4 out of 5]

Todesfuge was a standout. I ripped out one of the Oliver Baez bendorf poems and put it on my wall. Richard Siken had to have a stroke before he felt like writing prose. Never heard of Kimiko Hahn before, I liked her stuff a lot.

[Nick Pierce · Rating 2 out of 5]

Props to: Jenny Brown, Shira Erlichman, Erin Marie Lynch, Paul Guest, Stacie Cassarino.

[Timothy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nothing that really grabbed me. Feature poet was very knowledgeable and decent but I don't think this one was for ne

[Courtland Bethune · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some very good contemporary stuff in here.

These always help me with my own writing.