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

Poetry magazine, one of the country’s oldest and most prominent literary publications, will have a Black editor for the first time when Adrian Matejka, a former Indiana poet laureate, takes charge on May 16.

Matejka, 50, is a much-lauded poet whose 2013 collection “The Big Smoke” was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.