about Luna Luna

Luna Luna is a monthly literary journal devoted to lush poetics, fever dreams, and the dark ecstatic. 

As of summer 2025, we have returned from a very long hiatus. We publish poetry and, at times, short poetry book reviews (see guidelines here). We are edited by Lisa Marie Basile. 

We co-host a quarterly, Brooklyn-based literary reading series called Weird Girls x Luna Luna, as well as The Dark Hour, an hour-long online sanctum in which we simply write together. 

Our history

Luna Luna was founded in 2013 by Lisa Marie Basile. It originally divided the site up into 2 aspects: the luminous and the shadow. It was shepherded into this world by many devoted collaborators. Luna Luna always published literature, but it also explored art, the occult, and culture. Today, Luna Luna is a home for poetry, though its foundation still shapes its focus and aesthetics. 

Inquiries can be directed to lisambasile @ gmail dot com or lunalunamag @ gmail dot com.

Credit note: Some of the images you see on the site come from our Pinterest collection here, although we are currently working toward using more and more of our own photography in each issue. For each poetry post, you will find an image credit with a link to the source.