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Poetry Magazines
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 If you discover outdated information, please let us know through our comments section.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
The Indianola Review
The Indianola Review, based out of the Midwest, is a new quarterly literary journal featuring the best short fiction and poetry we can possibly get our hands on.
The Inflectionist
The Inflectionist® is a publication for the literary, musical, for the arty, the linguistic and expressive, containing interesting and up to date articles written on the subjects of Language
The Inflectionist Review
The Inflectionist Review is a small press publishing stark and distinctive contemporary poetry that fosters dialog between the reader and writer, between words and their meanings, between ambiguity and concept.
The Iowa Review
The Iowa Review is an American literary magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews. The magazine--currently in its 42nd year--is published in April, August, and December
The Kleksograph
An international Review of arts and the subconscious. Surely every work of art is informed by the subconscious? True, but most artists would contend that their work is mainly the result of conscious, rational decisions
The Lake
"All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys.
The Lark
The Lark is an online, quarterly arts and literary magazine that pays its contributors. The Lark firmly believes that the ubiquity of the internet is not a reason to accept diminished quality in publications,
The Literary Bohemian
The Literary Bohemian , the hippest online destination for travel-inspired poetry, ?postcard? prose and snappy reviews. Updated with (almost) monthly issues, the site is bursting with intriguing content and boasts design to die for with retro luggage labels, compasses and yellowing
The Literary Yard
The Literary Yard invites stories, articles on literature, literary criticism, opinion articles on literature and literary trends and much more. Send your best write-ups in a .doc, .docx, or .rtf file. If you?re sending poems,
The London Magazine
The London Magazine is England?s oldest literary periodical, with a history stretching back to 1732.
The Los Angeles Review of Los Angeles
We know we're rude. We know we're immature. Hey, it's 2012, folks! We live in Los Angeles! Fuck. See, some nice Midwesterners still don't quite know what that means. The Republic died
The Los Angeles River Review
The Los Angeles River Review is a new and independent poetry journal based in Hollywood, CA. Publishing semiannually in print, the review aims to bring forward-thinking and refined poetry to readers throughout the United States.
The Lune Quarterly
The Lune Quarterly is a reflective space in which to witness feats of identity, place and feeling. We share work that stems from a sense of wonder, delight
The Madison Review
The Madison Review is a literary arts journal published through the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Founded in the early 1970s by students from the university’s creative writing program,
The Maine Review
The Maine Review is a quarterly literary magazine publishing short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and essays. The Review runs contests each year
The Malahat Review
The Malahat Review, established in 1967, is among Canada?s leading literary journals. Published quarterly, it features contemporary Canadian and international works of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction as well as reviews of recently published Canadian poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction.
The Manila Envelope
At The Manila Envelope, we are proud to support creative work of the art and writing community and are committed to publishing great work that shows the promise of gifted, emerging writers and artists.
The Masters Review
Each year The Masters Review publishes a ten-story collection showcasing the best in graduate-level creative writing. Our editors and judges select the ten best stories written by students in MA, MFA, and PhD creative writing programs
The Matador Review
The Matador Review is an online literature and art quarterly based in Chicago, Illinois.
The Metric
The METRIC is an online literary publishing project. We aim to promote literary interestingness on the web at a grassroots level. METRIC?s origins are sprung from smaller e-zines.
The Missing Slate
The Missing Slate originated in Pakistan as a vehicle to promote original and innovative work from writers and artists of any age, from any country. The magazine aims to provide a platform
The Missouri Review
The Missouri Review, founded in 1978, is one of the most highly-regarded literary magazines in the United States and for the past thirty-three years we've upheld a reputation for finding and publishing the best writers first.
The Modern Artist
The Modern Artist
- Website: modernartists.org
- Print magazine: No
- Size: Independent literary magazine
- Location: Not specified
- Submissions: Seeks work that reflects on the artist's identity and creative process, particularly exploring the intersections of art, identity, labor, and technology in today's rapidly changing world. Interested in fresh, unconventional perspectives, especially those underrepresented in the art world.
- Other information: Founded in 2024. Created specifically to address the changing role of human artists in a technology-driven world with the rise of AI-generated art. Aims to provide a platform for artists to shape cultural and philosophical dialogue around the future of art.
- Genres: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Visual Art
- Publication frequency: Not specified
- Payment: No
- Founded: 2024
The Monarch Review
The Monarch Review is a publication dedicated to sustaining a literary tradition both curious and amenable to the necessary adaptations of creative lives lived in a world of increasingly rapid technological advancement. Only within an understanding of tradition as existing in a state of perpetual change can it be sustained.
The Nelligan Review
The Nelligan Review accepts unsolicited submissions of fiction, essays, reviews, poetry, art, and photography.
The New Guard
The New Guard is a contest-centered review. We run two contests, The Knightville Poetry Contest and The Machigonne Fiction Contest.
the other side of hope: journeys in refugee and immigrant literature
We admire, respect, and are friends with writers and poets from all walks of life. However, the other side of hope exists to serve, bring together, and celebrate the refugee and immigrant communities worldwide.
The Paragon Journal
The Paragon Journal is an online literary magazine that focuses on sharpening the creative writing skills of people of any age. We are based in Pennsylvania, United States, but are looking for submissions from all over the globe.
The Paris-American
The Paris-American was founded in New York by poet C. L. O'Dell in 2012. Since its launch, the ezine has featured many award-winning authors such as Matthew Dickman, Chloe Honum, Carl
The Pasticheur: Literature, Art, & Ideas
This is a pastiche: a little bit of art, photographic art, poetry, short filmography, prose, and non-fiction writing.
The Petigru Review
The Petigru Review, an online literary journal sponsored by the South Carolina Writers Association, is open for submissions. We accept high quality and engaging fiction, nonfiction, poetry and flash, as well as craft essays and reviews for our website. We look forward to reading your work!
The Pinch
The Pinch is a journal of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual art committed to presenting its readers with exciting works from both new and established writers. Founded in 1980,
The Pine Cone Review
We are looking for well-crafted honest works of written and visual art. Editing is considered to be an invaluable aspect of the creative process. We can often see shimmers of a great idea in the unpolished drafts.
The Plume
The Plume is an online literary, arts, news and commentary magazine dedicated to publishing the best work from the international under-twenty-five demographic. First launched in January
The Poet’s Haven
The Poet's Haven publishes online galleries of poetry, stories, and art, currently totaling over 6,000 pages. In print, there is "The Poet's Haven Author Series" chapbooks, "The Poet's Haven Digest"
The Rag
The Rag is an electronic literary magazine that focuses on grittier forms of contemporary short fiction. We publish in ePub, Kindle, and PDF formats, aiming for the e-reader/tablet market.
The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society
The purpose of The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society is to publish works that voice an unusual, unpopular or incendiary opinion. The RP&D Society strives to give
The Renaissance
The Renaissance was an artistic revival during the 14th through the 16th century that revolutionized the art world. As our namesake
The Resurrectionist
The Resurrectionist is a biannual poetry journal dedicated to modern formalist poetry. By modern we intend poetry that makes use of contemporary language and grammar, experiments with verse forms or that handles contemporary themes. 'Resurrectionist' (syn. 'Resurrection-man') is a 19th century English term for a body-snatcher whose main purpose was the resale of body parts to anatomy schools and researchers in the medical field. The application of the term for the journal is metaphoric and in direct retort to the openly stated assumption that formal verse (or metrical poetry) is a dead and/or no longer relevant art.
The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities (RALPH)
We have been online since 1995, and come out once a month. We publish at least a dozen book reviews, articles, readings, and poems in each issue.We are very interested in new poetry
The Sacred Cow
The Sacred Cow is a literary magazine in digital format. The name might suggest that our mission is to annoy people, poking holes in their cherished beliefs.
The Scented Flower
The Scented Flower is a literary magazine written for and by people who live in a communitarian setting. However, through excellent writing and story-telling,
The Screech Owl
We are the voice of Lilith, a site and magazine devoted to the best contemporary poetry, prose, short stories and articles.
The Shangri-La Shack
The Shangri-La Shack Literary Arts Journal is a bi-annual print and online journal that provides a stage for undiscovered talents and esteemed artists whose work exemplifies Shangri-La
The Slag Review
The Slag Review is a small, confused group of creators invested in the process of expression through art, fully understanding that it may be a long and dangerous one. In this way,
The Southeast Review
The Southeast Review, established in 1979 as Sundog, is a national literary magazine housed in the English department at Florida State University and is edited and managed by its graduate students and a faculty consulting editor.
The Speculative Edge
At The Speculative Edge, our mission is - in a word - balance. We want to bring you fiction that is both exciting and enlightening, poetry that is imaginative and accessible, reviews of both
The Start Literary Journal
The Start Literary Journal is a new young adult literary journal that is looking for submissions for its first issue. While we hope to publish writers at all stages of their publishing journey, our goal is to give writers their start by publishing new and unpublished writers (including high school students!)
The Stinging Fly
The Stinging Fly was established in 1997 to seek out, publish and promote the very best new Irish and international writing. We have a particular interest in encouraging new writers, and in promoting the short story form. The main objective in setting up the magazine was to work towards bringing out a well-designed publication that would provide a forum for the very best new Irish and international writing. That objective has not changed. We believe that there is a need for a magazine that, first and foremost, gives new and emerging writers an opportunity to get their work out into the world. We are particularly concerned to provide an outlet for short story writers: