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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 If you discover outdated information, please let us know through our comments section.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
Blotter Magazine, The
The Blotter Magazine exists to nurture underground, outsider literature and art and to provide it to a wide audience. We believe that the economic viability of good art
Blotterature
Blotterature is a brand new journal founded by four writers from Northwest Indiana. We accept a wide variety of prose, poetry, and artwork.
Blue Collar Review
Blue Collar Review (Journal of Progressive Working Class Literature), published quarterly, contains poetry, short stories, and illustrations "reflecting the working class experience--a broad range from the personal to the societal.
Blue Crystal Literary Magazine
Blue Crystal Literary Magazine emerged from the vision of emerging literary enthusiasts seeking to celebrate creativity, imagination
Blue Mesa Review
Blue Mesa Review is a literary magazine published online bi-annually. It is associated with the University of New Mexico.
Blue Mountain Review, The
The Blue Mountain Review stands as a distinguished literary journal launched in 2015 seeking to platform impactful stories told across
Bombay Review, The
The Bombay Review is a bi-monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction and poetry. The issues are online, and at the end of the year, the best of the published pieces
Boston Accent Lit
Based in Boston, MA and founded in February 2016 by Sarah A. O'Brien, Boston Accent Lit aims to showcase work that is daring and innovative, as well as providing a platform for underrepresented
Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers
Brain, Child treats motherhood as a subject worthy of literature. And in the best tradition of literature, it celebrates the diversity of mothers and their styles. Our essays and features address
Brick, A Literary Journal
Brick is an international literary magazine based in Toronto, Canada, and edited by Michael Ondaatje, Michael Redhill, Linda Spalding, Michael Helm, Rebecca Silver Slayter, and Esta Spalding.
Bricolage Magazine
Bricolage is a new arts and culture magazine based in India. We seek original, exciting works of art, literature and photograph for publication.
Broad River Review
The Broad River Review is published every spring by the Department of English Language and Literature at Gardner-Webb University.
Café Review, The
The Café Review is a quarterly print volunteer publication based in Portland, Maine that has been publishing art, poetry and poetry book reviews for over 25 years. We forever search for new, strong voices in poetry and art, both in Maine and beyond Maine's borders.
Cardiff Review, The
The Cardiff Review is a digital and print literary magazine that publishes contemporary graduate writing. The magazine was launched to give talented students a platform
Carolina Quarterly, The
The Carolina Quarterly publishes a variety of poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and artwork three times a year. Approximately 1,000 copies are distributed to readers locally and to individual subscribers,
Cease, Cows
At Cease, Cows we want to explore the contemporary, the strange, the big questions. We want to feel cultural pulses, expose mental arteries, bathe in both the sanguine and sanguinary. We want to publish prose and poems with fire and truth. Humans may be animals,
Celestial Blood Literary Magazine
Celestial Blood Literary Magazine was founded on April 20th, 2019 by four aspiring, young writers. We have all heard that poetry is the lifeblood of poets.
CHA: An Asian Literary Journal
CHA: An Asian Literary Journal is the first and currently only Hong Kong-based online literary quarterly journal dedicated to publishing creative works ! from and about
Chamber Magazine, The
All rights remain with the author. There is no submission fee or submission period. The Chamber accepts submissions 24/7/365.
Chestnut Review
Chestnut Review is a quarterly literary magazine committed to treating artists with respect and paying them fairly for their work.
Chestnut Review
Chestnut Review
- Website: chestnutreview.com
- Accepts unagented submissions: Yes
- Size: Independent literary magazine
- Location: Not specified
- Submissions: Features poetry, short fiction, flash fiction, art, and photography from around the world. Writer-centered, selective publication with online quarterly and annual print publication. Responds to all submissions within 30 days.
- Other information: Founded in 2019. Pays artists and staff. Publishes 4 online issues per year and 1 print issue. ISSN: 2688-0350. Named after the stubborn chestnut trees that continue to send up shoots despite blight, symbolizing the persistence of artists.
- Genres: Art, Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography, Poetry
Christmas Spirits
Sharing ghost stories in the chilly darkness by firelight is a celebrated holiday tradition that's ready for a resurrection. Christmas Spirits
Cimarron Review
Cimarron Review
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- Website: cimarronreview.com
- Print magazine: Yes
- Size: Literary quarterly published by Oklahoma State University
- Location: Stillwater, OK, US
- Submissions: Publishes work with a wide-ranging aesthetic: bold and ruminative, sensitive and shocking, imaginative and truth-telling. Seeks the finest stories, poems, and essays from working writers across the country and around the world.
- Other information: Founded in 1967. One of the oldest quarterlies in the nation. Publishes writers at all stages of their careers, including Pulitzer and O. Henry prize winners. Member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP).
- Genres: Art, Fiction, Nonfiction, Photography, Poetry, University Published
- Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
- Payment: Contributor copies
Cleaver Magazine
Cleave is a Janus verb, meaning both to stick tight and to fall away. A cleaver is the most broad-edged and brutally efficient kitchen knife, designed to be swung like a hammer for the most effective channel of force.
Clementine (Unbound)
Clementine (Unbound) publishes a small selection of poetry each month online. Print copies can be viewed or purchased from Issuu.com.
CLOCKHOUSE
Clockhouse accepts works of poetry, fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, and dramatic works for stage or screen. We encourage submissions from both
Club Plum Literary Journal
Club Plum Literary Journal
- Website: www.clubplumliteraryjournal.com
- Print magazine: No (Online only)
- Size: Independent literary journal
- Location: Not specified
- Submissions: Publishes creative nonfiction, flash fiction, prose poetry and art by emerging and established authors whose absorbing tales and imagery unravels in voices either understated or lyrical but always powerful.
- Other information: Founded in 2019. Editor: Thea Swanson. Provides a focused reading experience without ads or distractions. Describes itself as "a safe place" that excludes sexist, homophobic, or racist content.
- Genres: Art, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
- Publication frequency: 4 issues per year
- Payment: No
- Founded: 2019
Coffin Bell
Coffin Bell is a quarterly online journal of dark literature seeking poetry, flash fiction, short stories, and creative nonfiction exploring dark themes.
Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing
Compose: A Journal of Simply Good Writing is a biannual, online publication that features work by both established and emerging writers
Concho River Review
The Concho River Review publishes writers from all over the United States and, occasionally, writers from abroad. We enjoy publishing writers for the first time
CONSEQUENCE magazine
CONSEQUENCE is a new literary magazine focusing on the culture of war in the twenty-first century. We believe that literature and art can advance the discourse a
Contrary Magazine
Contrary is a quarterly literary journal that publishes fiction, poetry, commentary, and especially work that dances contrarily across those categories. We also publish book reviews.
Crab Fat Literary Magazine
Crab Fat is interested in honesty, no matter how brutal it is. Don’t be afraid to use real language. Crab Fat is not interested in robotic academic language
Creation and Criticism
Creation and Criticism (CC), which is a quarterly international peer-reviewed refereed English e-journal, aims at providing an opportunity to the researchers and scholars for sharing their creative and critical
Culterate
Culterate is an online literary magazine led by a team of youth from all over the world. We're committed to discussing society,
Cumberland River Review
The Cumberland River Review is an annual publication of new poetry, fiction, essays, and art. The journal is produced by the department of English at Trevecca Nazarene University, in
CutBank
We?re proud of CutBank?s thirty-nine years as Montana?s foremost literary magazine, founded in 1973 by the Creative Writing program at the University of Montana and helmed initially by favorite literary son William Kittredge.
Dappled Things
Dappled Things is a Catholic literary magazine, and this raises the question of what Catholic literature is in the first place.
Dark Onus Lit
Dark Onus Lit is a Philadelphia-based, volunteer-run, experimental micro-zine which publishes digital Issues of dark-themed artwork,
Del Sol Review
Del Sol Review is now accepting submissions for the Spring 2017 editions in general fiction, science fiction and fantasy, and poetry
Delmarva Review
Delmarva Review is an independent, nonprofit literary journal publishing short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and short book reviews in print and digital editions annually.
Dime Show Review
Dime Show Review is born from a dream. Yes, an in-the-bed, under-the-covers dream. I saw a circus poster in a reference from the Library of Congress dating from the 1880’s
Dominique
Dominique Literary Magazine
- Website: https://dominiquelitmag.org/
- Print magazine: No (digital publication only)
- Size: New publication
- Location: Not specified
- Submissions: Accepts fiction, poetry, and nonfiction with a word count range of 100 to 20,000 words. Seeking beautiful, truthful work that experiments with form and subject. Particularly interested in debut authors and voices not already represented in other literary magazines. No submissions that glorify violence, hate speech, or discrimination.
- Other information: Publishes accepted work on a rolling basis. No submission fees. Uses email and online submissions. Response time approximately 14 days. Volunteer-run magazine with no subscription or submission fees.
- Genres: Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Any genre
- Publication frequency: Rolling basis
- Payment: No payment offered
- Founded: 2025
- Editors: Henry Stevens, Eben Bracy, John Oyewole
- Contact: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61575894206392
drafthorse
drafthorse is a biannual online publication of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, visual narrative, and other media art where work, occupation, labor?or lack of the same?is in some way
Dreamers Creative Writing
Dreamers is dedicated to all the different ways to write creatively from writing for writing’s sake, to using creative writing in academic research, to writing as therapy.
Driftwood Press
Driftwood Press is an online literary journal that publishes fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and visual art. We seek boundary-pushing, experimental
Drunk Monkeys
Drunk Monkeys is an online publication which features an eclectic mix of content, from original poetry and fiction to cultural and political essays, film and television reviews, and humor pieces.
DUMAS de Demain: The French Literary Magazine
At Dumas de Demain, we publish both online and print copies of French language stories, poems, fiction by young, emerging writers. We also celebrate and welcome French spoken word created by young artists
Eastern Iowa Review
Most journals and reviews want a story; we want magic in the language & fire in the flow, a show to impress over drama to incite. Well, a story is fine IF it's embedded