Poetry Foundation Magazine, March 2026

by Adrian Matejka (Editor)

Poetry Magazine March 2026

Genres: Poetry

95 pages, Paperback

Published February 22, 2026

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

[Alan Zhu · Rating 2 out of 5]

eh.

likes: Ellen Bass's "Wildlife"; Timothy Liu's "I Want It to Be Winter All the Time"; Kandé (tr. Carlson)'s "The Egg and The Stone"; Katana Smith's "Three of Us"; David McCombs's "Green"; Felicia Zamora's "Xibalbá : Rebirth"

[Raytown · Rating 4 out of 5]

Taylor Johnson was a revelation - what a stunning poet!

[Ajp · Rating 4 out of 5]

This issue introduced me to Edward Salem's poetry, but my favorite lines are from Jill McDonough: “…we are fighting about money, / which for us looks like a debate about capitalism…”

[Timothy]

All good poems except the last one, that one was definitely not for me