Poetry Magazine, May 2026

Poetry Foundation Magazine

by Adrian Matejka (Editor)

Unknown Binding

Published May 1, 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

[Sarah]

Favs:

Bin by Bin (Tracy K. Smith, aka my queen)
ithaca (Maria Zoccola)
Antonio Ochoa's series
Proof (Cornelius Eady)
Heedful Hold (Marcus Jackson)
Each contribution to Hard Feelings