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Poetry Foundation Magazine, Volume 227, Number 1, October 2025
Poetry Magazine October 2025, featuring Gabrielle Calvocoressi, marion eames white, Kimiko Hahn, Tarik Dobbs, Cynthia Cruz, and a folio on Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize winner Rigoberto González.
88 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 2025
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About the author
Adrian Matejka
57 books59 followersAdrian 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."
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January 27, 2026
Book bingo: poetry or novel in verse
It always takes a while for the editions to actually be posted on Goodreads. This was the last month I received this subscription. I bought it with a visa gift card I purchased with money I earned from filling out surveys from one of those sketchy survey apps for a year in middle school. Finally cashed in my sophomore year of college (worst year of my life fr). It was exactly the amount I needed for a one year subscription. Surveys for poetry. Getting the book each month was, looking back, probably life saving in a couple ways, along with several other blessings like that. After a year of devotion I think I can say that most of the poems kind of suck. LOL. Or are just entirely irrelevant for a non-pompous poetry reader such as myself. But every now and then there’s a little gem. And flipping through them is my easiest and favorite way to learn new vocabulary. I’ll miss you, poetry foundation subscription. But not too bad.
It always takes a while for the editions to actually be posted on Goodreads. This was the last month I received this subscription. I bought it with a visa gift card I purchased with money I earned from filling out surveys from one of those sketchy survey apps for a year in middle school. Finally cashed in my sophomore year of college (worst year of my life fr). It was exactly the amount I needed for a one year subscription. Surveys for poetry. Getting the book each month was, looking back, probably life saving in a couple ways, along with several other blessings like that. After a year of devotion I think I can say that most of the poems kind of suck. LOL. Or are just entirely irrelevant for a non-pompous poetry reader such as myself. But every now and then there’s a little gem. And flipping through them is my easiest and favorite way to learn new vocabulary. I’ll miss you, poetry foundation subscription. But not too bad.
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