Poetry Foundation Magazine, July/August 2025

by Adrian Matejka (Editor)

Featuring Joanna Klink, Kevin Young, Danez Smith, and Wang Ping. Plus the folio, "Wind Crossing Grasses: Poems from China's Dragon Rivers" and a new Not Too Hard to Master on the pantoum by River 瑩瑩 Dandelion.

Genres: Poetry

122 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2025

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: "Diary," "They/Them," "Dear Time," "Evel Knievel Returns to Snake River Canyon," "Shiftless," "Brunch Shift"

[Sarah]

These magazines are always such a treat!

Favs:
They/Them by Danez Smith
broken lyre by Asha Futterman
Age at the Beginning of Knowing by Joanna Klink
How Pantoums Can Tell Generational Stories and its proceeding pantoums by River Dandelion