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Poetry has a new editor — and now a new issue. It’s time to give a fresh look at this important Chicago magazine.

CHICAGO — The new editor of Poetry magazine, one of the city’s most important and influential publications, is Adrian Matejka, a great poet and a good guy.

Chicago Tribune · Dec 7, 2022

Adrian Matejka will be first Black editor of Poetry magazine, which faced criticism on diversity

Published in Chicago, it’s one of the country’s oldest and most prominent literary publications. Matejka, a former Indiana poet laureate, has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 28, 2022

Adrian Matejka will be first Black editor of Poetry magazine

Poetry magazine, one of the country’s oldest and most prominent literary publications, will for the first time have a Black editor

The Independent UK · Apr 26, 2022