My aimless browsing in Barnes & Noble led me to a magazine called "First Things," a magazine "whose purpose is to advance a religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society". To my delight, the issue opened right up to a wonderful new sonnet by Rhina (with a very interesting rhyme scheme). I think it was the only poem in the issue, so I can confidently report that their poetry is uniformly quite excellent.
It's particularly nice, I think, when fine poetry turns up in non-literary magazines.
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