Andrea Trabucco-Campos and team have designed the covers for the December 2024, January/February 2025, and March 2025 issues of Poetry Magazine.

In continuous circulation since 1912, Poetry Magazine is the oldest monthly poetry publication in the English-speaking world. 

At the core of the publication’s identity program—developed for the Poetry Foundation by Michael Bierut in 2018—is the invitation for a guest designer to interpret the letters P O E T R Y to create a unique cover for each issue.

For the December cover, the team played with ‘90s mass design tools to make “word art”. Simple shading, coloring, and default fonts help establish decorative typographic compositions, coupled with the simple metaphor of desktop screenshots, which delivers an undesigned attitude in a lightly humorous way.

For January/February, Poetry Magazine’s Young People’s Edition, the theme of young writers and new voices is interpreted through the idea of a spark. The spark is a simple unit that radiates into a bursting cluster, layered and repeated to create letterforms. Combined with a color palette of high-contrast yellow and sky blue, the cover embodies the flourishing energy of young poets.

The March issue exclusively featured poems by Indigenous people, primarily from the Navajo Nation. After extensive research into the history of the visual culture of the Navajo, including their crafts and tapestries, their intricate overlay style became the source of inspiration for the typeface. The combination of blocky lettering and flowy, threaded patterns is the cover’s typographic signature, with an earthy color scheme that honors the history of tapestries.