Best American Poetry Magazines

Welcome to our list of magazines that had work selected for inclusion in the anthology Best American Poetry. If we forgot a journal or if a link isn’t working you can tell us in the comments below.

People have asked “big deal, what does this list mean anyway?” Well we think it at least means these journals have had high quality work published in them at one time. It might also mean these journals consistently publish high quality work. It at very least means these journals have a credit in a national anthology. Great recognition and a pretty good bet on a place to try to publish your work.

The Best American Poetry Anthology was started by David Lehman in 1988. Every year the anthology picks a guest editor to select the poems. The anthology is hands down outstanding high quality poetry. It is for poets by great poets. You can visit Best American Poetry here. Please consider supporting this publication each year. We mean buy and read a copy. Many wonderful publications like this go out of business far too often.

You can find a complete interactive listing of our magazines here. This list for moved from our old html site to here. It is up to date.

14 Hills http://14hills.net/
26 Magazine http://www.26magazine.com/
Aerial Edge http://www.aerialedge.com/aerial.htm
Agni http://www.bu.edu/agni/about/guidelines/
Alaskan Quarterly Review http://aqr.uaa.alaska.edu/
American Poetry Review http://www.aprweb.org/
Antioch Review http://review.antioch.edu/
Arshile http://home.earthlink.net/~arshile/
Ascent http://www.cord.edu/dept/english/ascent
Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/letters/edlet.htm#submissions
Barrow Street http://www.barrowstreet.org/
Beloit Poetry Journal http://www.bpj.org/
Bitter Oleander http://www.bitteroleander.com/issues.html
Black Warrior Review http://bwr.ua.edu/
Bomb http://www.bombsite.com/
Bombay Ginhttp://www.naropa.edu/writingandpoetics/bombaygin.html
Boston Review http://bostonreview.net/
Boulevard http://www.richardburgin.net/boulevard
Bird Dog http://www.birddogmagazine.com/

Bridge Magazine http://www.bridgemagazine.org/online/
Brooklyn Review http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/bkrvw/
Café Review
Callaloohttp://xroads.virginia.edu/~public/callaloo/home/callaloohome.htm
Can We Have Our Ball Backhttp://canwehaveourballback.blogspot.com/
Canary http://www.thecanary.org/
Chain http://www.temple.edu/chain/
Chicago Review http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/
Cincinnati Review

Clock Watch http://titan.iwu.edu/~jplath/clockwatch.html
Colorado Review http://www.coloradoreview.com/
Common Grounds Review http://www.cgreview.org /
Conduit http://www.conduit.org/
Conjunctions http://www.conjunctions.com/
Columbia Poetry Review http://english.colum.edu/cpr/

Connecticut Review http://www.connecticutreview.com/
Crab Orchard http://www.siu.edu/~crborchd/
Crazyhorse http://crazyhorse.cofc.edu/

Cream City Review http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/English/ccr/
Crowd http://www.crowdmagazine.com/ (deadlink)

DC Poetry http://www.dcpoetry.com/
Denver Quarterly http://www.denverquarterly.com/index.cfm
Drumvoices http://www.siue.edu/ENGLISH/dvr/
Epoch http://www.arts.cornell.edu/english/epoch.html
Evansville Reviewhttp://evansvillereview.evansville.edu/AboutEvansvilleReview.htm
Exquisite Corpse http://www.corpse.org/index.html
Fence http://www.fencemag.com/v7n2/
Field http://www.oberlin.edu/ocpress/field.html
Fine Madness http://www.finemadness.org/
Five Points http://webdelsol.com/Five_Points/
Formalist http://theformalist.evansville.edu/
Fracture http://webdelsol.com/Facture/
Fulcrum http://fulcrumpoetry.com/

Gargoyle Magazine http://www.gargoylemagazine.com/index.html
Georgia Review http://www.uga.edu/~garev/
Germ http://www.walrus.com/~gibralto/acorn/germ/
Gettysburg Reviewhttp://public.gettysburg.edu/academics/gettysburg_review/
Grand Street http://www.grandstreet.com/
Green Mountain Review http://greenmountainsreview.jsc.vsc.edu /
Gulf Coast http://www.gulfcoastmag.org/

Hanging Loose http://www.hangingloosepress.com/
Harpers http://www.harpers.org/
Harvard Advocate http://www.theharvardadvocate.com /
Harvard Review http://hcl.harvard.edu/harvardreview/

Holly Ridge http://members.aol.com/hollyridgepress/
Hotel Amerika
Hudson Review http://www.hudsonreview.com/
Indiana Reviewhttp://www.indiana.edu/~inreview/general/guidelines.html
Iodine Poetry Journal http://www.iodinepoetryjournal.com/
Iowa Reviewhttp://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/mainpages/current_issue.html
Jacket http://jacketmagazine.com/
Jubilat http://www.jubilat.org/n9/
Kalliope http://opencampus.fccj.org/kalliope/index.html
Kenyon Review http://www.kenyonreview.org/
Kiosk http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/mags/kiosk/kiosksub.html
La Petite Zine http://www.lapetitezine.org/
Lingo http://www.cultureport.com/newhp/lingo/index.html
Lit http://www.nsu.newschool.edu/writing/lit/index.htm
Literal Latte
Literary Times Supplement http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/
London Review of Books http://www.lrb.co.uk/

Lyric Review http://www.lyricreview.org/
Manoa http://www.hawaii.edu/mjournal/
Many Moving Mountains http://www.mmminc.org/
MARhttp://www.bgsu.edu/studentlife/organizations/midamericanreview/
Margie http://www.margiereview.com/
Massachusetts Review http://www.massreview.org/faq.html
Mcsweeney’s http://www.mcsweeneys.net/
Meridian http://www.engl.virginia.edu/meridian/
Michigan Quarterly Review http://www.umich.edu/~mqr/
Mipoeias http://www.mipoesias.com/

Mississippi Review http://www.mississippireview.com/
Nation http://www.thenation.com/
Nerterhttp://webpages.ull.es/users/mbrito/NERTERWEBPAGES/nerter.htm
New American Writing http://www.newamericanwriting.com/
New Criterion http://www.newcriterion.com/
New England Review http://cat.middlebury.edu/~nereview/
New Letters http://www.newletters.org/
New Millennium Writingshttp://www.mach2.com/books/NewMillenniumWritings/index.html
New Republic http://www.tnr.com/
New York Review of Books http://www.nybooks.com/
New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/
Nimrod http://www.utulsa.edu/nimrod/
No Journal http://www.nojournal.com/
North American Reviewhttp://www.webdelsol.com/NorthAmReview/NAR/
Northwest Review http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~nwreview/
Notre Dame Review http://www.nd.edu/~ndr/review.htm

On The Bus http://www.beachnet.com/~apeiron/OTB.HTM
Ontario Review http://www.ontarioreviewpress.com/
Painted Bride Quarterly http://webdelsol.com/pbq/issue73/index.php
Paris Review http://www.parisreview.com/
Parnassus Poetry http://www.parnassuspoetry.com/
Parsons Literary Reviewhttp://www.pccc.cc.nj.us/poetry/review32.html
Partisan Review http://www.bu.edu/partisanreview/
PataPhysics
Phoebe http://phoebejournal.com/

Phoenix http://www.thephoenix.com/
Pleiades http://www.cmsu.edu/englphil/pleiades/
Ploughshares http://www.pshares.org/
PMS http://pms-journal.org/
Poet-Lore http://www.writer.org/pubs/poet-lore.asp
Poetry Daily http://www.poems.com/
Poetry East http://condor.depaul.edu/~poetryea/
Poetry Flash http://www.poetryflash.org/
Poetry Magazine http://www.poetrymagazine.org/
Poetry Project Newsletterhttp://www.poetryproject.com/newsletter.html
Pool http://www.poolpoetry.com/
Potomac Reviewhttp://www.montgomerycollege.edu/potomacreview/
Prairie Schooner http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/html/submit.html
Pressed Wafer http://www.durationpress.com/pressedwafer/mag.htm
Progressive http://www.progressive.org/
Provincetown http://www.provincetownarts.org/
Qequod http://www.thepequod.org.uk/
Quarter After Eight http://cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu/~quarter/main.html
Quarterly West http://www.utah.edu/quarterlywest/
Raritan Quarterly http://raritanquarterly.rutgers.edu/
Rattapallax http://www.rattapallax.com/poep.htm
Rattle http://rattle.com/
Rhino http://www.rhinopoetry.org/
Rivendell http://www.rivendelljournal.org/

River City http://www.people.memphis.edu/~rivercity/
River Styx http://www.riverstyx.org/
Rosebud http://www.rsbd.net/
Runes http://members.aol.com/Runes/RunesGuidelines.html

Salmagundi http://www.skidmore.edu/salmagundi/141/
Santa Monica Review http://www.smc.edu/sm_review/default.htm
Sienese Shredder http://www.sienese-shredder.com/

Seneca Review http://www.hws.edu/senecareview/
Sentence http://www.firewheel-editions.org/sentence/current.htm

Shenandoah http://shenandoah.wlu.edu/
Shinyhttp://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/ezines/treehome/tree02/shiny_78.html
Skanky Possum http://www.skankypossum.com/
Slate http://www.slate.com/
Slope http://www.slope.org /
Sonora http://www.coh.arizona.edu/sonora/
Southern Review http://www.lsu.edu/thesouthernreview/
South Story http://www.storysouth.com/

Spoon http://www.litline.org/Spoon/
Subtropics http://www.english.ufl.edu/subtropics/
Talisman http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/mags/talisman.html
Tampa Review http://tampareview.ut.edu/
TAR River Poetry http://personal.ecu.edu/makuckp/home.html
Texas Observer http://www.texasobserver.org/
Texas Review http://www.shsu.edu/~www_trp/
Thirdcoast http://www.wmich.edu/thirdcoast/
Thought Magazine http://www.geocities.com/thoughtmagazine/
Threepenny Review http://www.threepennyreview.com/
Tikkun http://www.tikkun.org/
Tin House Tin House
TOR Newsletter http://www.torhouse.org/news.htm
Triquarterly http://www.triquarterly.org/
Van Gogh’s Ear http://www.motherbird.com/Van’sEar.html
Verse http://versemag.blogspot.com/
Virginia Quarterly Review http://www.vqronline.org/
Volt http://www.voltpoetry.com/

Weber http://weberstudies.weber.edu/
Western Humanities Review http://www.hum.utah.edu/whr/
Witness http://www.webdelsol.com/Witness/
World Magazine http://www.worldmag.com/
Xconnect http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/
Yale Review http://www.yale.edu/yalereview/
Zyzzyva http://www.zyzzyva.org/

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