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Poetry Magazine Listings
Discover Nearly 700 Poetry Publication Opportunities
Welcome to our comprehensive directory of poetry magazines accepting submissions. For over a decade, we’ve curated this collection to connect poets with publishing opportunities across the literary landscape.
Our listings feature both prestigious established publications and promising newcomers to the poetry scene. From award-winning journals to emerging digital platforms, these magazines represent diverse voices and styles in contemporary poetry.
Please note: While we update these listings regularly, the publishing world is constantly changing. Always check the magazine’s current guidelines before submitting your work. If you discover outdated information, please let us know through our comments section. Based on your feedback, we’ll either update or remove the listing.
Poetry magazines serve as vital channels for literary expression and discovery. They provide both emerging and established poets with platforms to share their work while offering readers access to fresh, compelling voices.
Ready to submit your poetry? Browse our collection of nearly 700 publications below to find the perfect home for your work.
For questions about specific listings or to provide updates, please visit our Talk to the Editor page.
Best of luck with your submissions!
Poetry Magazines
149 Review
149 Review is an online journal focused on publishing fresh, original, thought-provoking poetry and creative nonfiction
2 river review
2river review is an online literary journal based in Santa Rosa, California that publishes poetry and visual art. The journal was founded in 1996.
34thParallel Magazine
At 34thParallel Magazine what we’re about is giving you the rock-star treatment—sorry no sex and drugs!!
3Elements Review
3Elements Review was founded to spark imagination, to provide a unique creative challenge, and at the very least, to allow writers and artists a bit of fun with our three element prompts.
7th-Circle Pyrite
The 7th Circle of Hell as represented in Dante's Inferno is reserved for those who have committed acts of violence. In the world we live in—where violence runs rampant
96th of October
The name of this journal, 96th of October, is derived from a character in the Pogo comic strip who wishes to extend the sway of Halloween to where it displaces Christmas. Giving October 96 days effectively annexes December and the first week of January.
A Quiet Courage
A Quiet Courage is an online literary journal specializing in tiny words. We publish compelling, poignant, memorable,
A Velvet Giant
A VELVET GIANT is a genreless online literary journal, meaning that we do not categorize the work we receive by genre.
Aberration Labyrinth
This magazine is about expressing yourself. We do not restrict our publication to the confines of traditional poetry. If you write about drunken nights out, remembered or imagined, we want
Adelaide Literary Magazine
We publish literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and promote the writers we publish, helping both new, emerging, and established authors reach a wider literary audience.
Adroit Journal
The Adroit Journal has been the subject of a fair amount of napkin scribbling since November 2010, when Founder/Editor-in-Chief Peter LaBerge decided that the world needed a literary magazine run entirely by high school and college students that helped the world in more ways than one. The Adroit Journal, bright with enthusiasm, was born. And that enthusiasm remains bright, with over forty students from Boston to Bangalore collaborating on this unique publication. Yet Adroit's uniqueness does not stop there.
After Hours
After Hours is a semi-annual literary magazine publishing poetry, fiction, art, and photography from Chicago
Agonia
www.agonia.net is an international interactive website for writing and literature, formed by numerous cultural communities and languages. It is a platform where writers around the world publish their works, engage in providing constructive feedback critique oriented towards honing skills in the writing process.
Alarmist
The Alarmist is a fresh, new, dark, funny and twisted printed literary magazine published biannually.
Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose
Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose is a multi-genre print and online journal published by Columbia College Chicago's School of Communication and Culture
Ambit Magazine
Ambit is a surreptitious peek inside a private world. Without it such vital sparks of inspiration could well be lost for ever.? ? Ralph Steadman Ambit is a 96-page quarterly literary and artwork
American Aesthetic, The
To better understand the objectives of The American Aesthetic, one must first understand what prompted the creation of this poetry journal in the first place.
American Chordata
American Chordata is a biannual magazine of bright voices in fiction, nonfiction essay, and poetry, as well as art and photography.
American Poetry Review
American Poetry Review is a prestigious literary magazine founded in 1972. Published 6 times per year, APR focuses exclusively on publishing acclaimed contemporary poetry from the US and around the world, as well as poetry-related articles, interviews, essays and reviews.
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and/or, a print journal for creative experimental writing and/or innovative graphic art, seeks submissions from writers and/or other sorts of artists whose work openly challenges the boundaries
Antigonish Review, The
The Antigonish Review is a creative literary quarterly that publishes poetry, fiction, critical articles, and reviews. Our ideal reader has extensive interests and seeks the creative. Major accomplishments of TAR include giving
Antioch Review
The Antioch Review is one of the best literary magazines in the country. We rate the Antioch Review as number 25 of our Top 50 Literary Magazines list.
Apocalypse Confidential
Established in 2021, APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL is a web magazine of edgy extrapolations, fringe fascinations, occult obsessions, risky ruminations, and aberrant associations. We are a literary journal obsessed with the underworld
Apple Valley Review
The Apple Valley Review, a semiannual online literary journal, was founded in 2005 by its current editor, Leah Browning. It is published in the spring and fall of the year.
ARDOR Literary Magazine
ARDOR Literary Magazine was founded in September 2012 as a non-profit electronic literary magazine. It is published online three times annually (January, May, September). ARDOR accepts fiction, nonfiction, short-short and poetry submissions through its online submission manager and is committed to paying every writer published in ARDOR Literary Magazine.
Arkana
Arkana
- Website: https://arkanamag.org/
- Print magazine: No (Online only)
- Size: University-affiliated literary journal
- Location: Conway, AR, US
- Submissions: Seeks work that "asks questions, explores mystery, and works to make visible the marginalized, the overlooked, and those whose voices have been silenced." Especially interested in work from Delta region, BIPOC, immigrant, LGBTQ+, women, disabled, and neurodivergent writers.
- Other information: Founded in 2016. Graduate-run journal of the University of Central Arkansas. Staff and editors are students in the Arkansas Writers' MFA Program. Nominates writers for Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Features audio recordings of published pieces.
- Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Scripts, Translation, Artwork, Illustrated Narrative
- Publication frequency: Not specified
- Payment: $50 Editors' Choice Awards in each genre
- Founded: 2016
Artifact Nouveau
Artifact Nouveau is a magazine of works by students, faculty, alumni, and employees of San Joaquin Delta College published by the SJDC Writers’ Guild.
ARTWIFE
ARTWIFE exists to serve as an oasis of art and beauty. We have deep reverence for human expression and we demand attention to craft
At Length
At Length is a venue for ambitious, in-depth writing, music, photography, and art that are open to possibilities shorter forms preclude. As a print-friendly online magazine, we create ways for readers, listeners, and viewers
Atlas and Alice Literary Magazine
Our Name: A&A takes its name from the ATLAS and ALICE experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. These experiments look to explain some of the most fundamental characteristics of the universe.
Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry
Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry
- Website: https://www.audilocus.com
- Print magazine: No (digital publication only)
- Size: New publication
- Location: Not specified
- Submissions: Accepts poetry, visual art, and photography. Looking for work that is bold, resonant, and emotionally honest—pieces that echo long after the final line or image.
- Other information: Publishes two carefully curated online issues per year (January and July). Uses online submissions via form at https://www.audilocus.com/submissions. Response time approximately 4 weeks after submissions close. No payment offered.
- Genres: Poetry, Visual Art, Photography
- Publication frequency: 2/year (January and July)
- Payment: No payment offered
- Founded: 2024
- Editors: Maudie Bryant
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/audilocusblog/
Avalon Literary Review
The Avalon Literary Review welcomes work from both published and unpublished writers and poets. We accept submissions of poetry, short fiction and personal essays. The author's voice and point of view should be unique and clear. We seek pieces which spring from the author's life and experiences. Submissions which explore both the sweet and bitter of life, with a touch of humor, are a good fit for our Review. While we appreciate the genres of fantasy, science fiction and horror, our magazine is not the forum for such work.
B O D Y
B O D Y is an international online literary journal. We publish the highest quality poetry and prose from emerging and established writers, both original work and translations.
Bacopa Literary Review
Bacopa Literary Review is an annual international print journal published by the Writers Alliance of Gainesville. We are seeking submissions in six categories this year: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Humor, Formal Poetry, Free Verse Poetry, and Visual Poetry.
Bad Version, The
Launched in November 2011, The Bad Version is a new take on the literary-cultural magazine. Its name comes from the collaborative art of screenwriting, where the first attempt at a scene,
BALLOONS Lit. Journal
First established in 2014, BALLOONS Lit. Journal (BLJ) is a young-reader-oriented literary journal that is freely accessible to all by online reading with a fully edited ready-to-print pdf version downloadable for every issue.
Baltimore Review
The mission of The Baltimore Review is to showcase Baltimore as a literary hub of diverse writing and promote the work of emerging and established writers.
Baltimore Review
The mission of The Baltimore Review is to showcase Baltimore as a literary hub of diverse writing and promote the work of emerging and established writers. The Baltimore Review was founded by Barbara Westwood Diehl in 1996
Barking Sycamores
Who We Are The mission of Barking Sycamores is to publish poetry by emerging and established neurodivergent writers (autistic, ADHD, bipolar, synesthesia, etc.).
Bayou Magazine
Bayou Magazine is a biannual literary magazine with national circulation published by the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans. Each issue contains short fiction, non-fiction and poetry
Beaks of Eagles: A Journal About Men’s Nature
Beaks of Eagles: a journal about man's need and nature "...an it is good for him to know that his needs and nature are no more changed in ten thousand years that the beaks of eagles." Robinson Jeffers, 1937 accepting short stories, essays, poems, interviews that relate to men's needs and nature.
Belfry Literary Journal
Belfry Literary Journal is now accepting submissions for their first ever print publication, as well as for their online supplement as well! The reading period is open from May 1 to July 31, with publication set for January of 2024.
Belladonna’s Garden
Belladonna's Garden
- Website: https://www.belladonnasgardenlit.com/
- Print magazine: No (online only, with hopes of expanding to print)
- Submissions: Seeks emotionally honest, bold writing that stirs something deep. Welcomes cozy horror, romance, magical realism, hopeful and strange stories. Loves lyrical prose, image-rich poetry, hybrid forms, and experimental structure. Especially drawn to work exploring identity, grief, transformation, historical stories, faith, folklore, dreams, silence, and survival.
- Other information: Small, independent literary magazine founded by Shari Wilder, rooted in "the strange and the lyrical." Believes in slow publishing, careful curation, and gentle fiction that makes space for softness and beauty. The name reflects their ethos: "beauty with bite, softness with poison, language that heals, but also haunts." Welcomes emerging and underrepresented writers alongside established voices.
- Genres: Poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, magical realism, cozy horror, romance
- Publication frequency: Quarterly (four issues per year)
- Founded: 2025
- Editors: Shari Wilder (founder and editor)
- Contact: belladonnasgardenlit@gmail.com
- Social media: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/bdg.lit/
- Submission guidelines:
- Poetry: Up to 3 poems
- Fiction and creative nonfiction: Under 5,000 words
- Multiple submissions: May submit three poems at once OR one piece in two categories (e.g., one poem and one short story)
- Simultaneous submissions welcome (notify immediately if accepted elsewhere)
- Only unpublished work accepted
- Include short third-person bio with submission
- Submission period: July 15 - August 31, 2025
- Compensation: No payment mentioned
- Inaugural issue: October 2025
Bennington Review
Bennington Review is a national biannual print journal of innovative, intelligent, and moving poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and film writing, housed at Bennington College.
Berkeley Poetry Review
The Berkeley Poetry Review (BPR) is a journal published annually at the University of California, Berkeley. Founded in 1974, it has featured the work of new as well as established poets and writers
Bicoastal Review
Bicoastal Review is a literary journal of poetry, creative nonfiction, interviews, art, and photography that aims to foster cross-genre conversations between
Black Herald, The
The Black Herald is an internationally-minded bilingual magazine (French-English) published in Paris. Co-edited by Blandine Longre and Paul Stubbs, the magazine’s only aim
BLACKBERRY: a magazine
BLACKBERRY: a magazine aims to be a premier literary magazine featuring black women writers and artists. Its goal is to expose readers to the diversity of the black woman?s experience and strengthen the black female voice in both
Blackbird
Poetry: send up to six poems at a time. Single-space, please; set your poem as you want it to appear on the printed page.