The Summerset Review
The Summerset Review started as an online literary quarterly in 2002, publishing exclusively fiction and nonfiction. With a staff of three volunteers, the magazine faithfully
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 If you discover outdated information, please let us know through our comments section.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.
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Best of luck with your submissions!
Poetry Magazines
The Tenement Block Review
The Tenement Block Review is a perfect-bound, monthly poetry journal based in the UK which will publish poetry from around the world.
The Threepenny Review
The Threepenny Review
- Website: www.threepennyreview.com
- Founded: 1980
- Format: Print journal (circulation 10,000)
- Accepts submissions: Yes (January 1 - April 15 only)
- Size: Independent literary magazine
- Location: Berkeley, California, USA
- Languages: English
- Genres: Fiction, Memoirs, Poetry, Essays, Criticism
- Notes: Quarterly publication (March, June, September, December). Founded by Wendy Lesser, who continues as editor. Pays $400 per story/article, $200 per poem/Table Talk piece. Does not accept simultaneous submissions. Length limits: articles 1200-2500 words, Table Talk 1000 words, stories/memoirs 4000 words, poetry 100 lines.
- Awards: Works frequently selected for Best American Poetry, Best American Travel Writing, Best American Essays, and O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies.
The Tiny Journal
Created in 2018, The Tiny Journal is a semi-annual online literary journal that publishes beautiful and short nonfiction, fiction, and poetry 1000 words or less.
The Tishman Review
The Tishman Review is an online quarterly literary journal devoted to publishing great poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction. We pay our contributors between 10$ and 75$. A small fee, but with continued support and growth we hope to increase annually
The Town Square a Literary Magazine
A service-disabled, veteran-founded, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, The Town Square a Literary Magazine works to provide a platform for
THE TRANSNATIONAL
The Transnational is a bilingual magazine (English/German) which publishes poetry and essays from authors from all around the world. We read new texts year-round (poetry, diary extracts,
The Traveling Poet
The Traveling Poet is an ezine that publishes poets ages 12-25, art of all mediums, and articles regarding traveling, hitchhiking, poverty, and philosophy. This project's goal
The Turnip Truck(s)
As a transdisciplinary forum for discourse, The Turnip Truck(s) is an evolving graphic landscape for writers, poets, essayists, artists,
The Vehicle
The Vehicle is a biannual literary magazine produced by the students of Eastern Illinois University. Since 1959, The Vehicle has been publishing poetr
The Whitefish Review
Whitefish Review is a nationally-acclaimed, non-profit journal publishing the distinctive literature, art, and photography of mountain culture. Author Doug Peacock
the Wildwood Reader
New polished works by new and emerging writers. Since we seldom hire an editor, we request that all stories be properly formatted, spell and grammar checked and lastly properly identified
The Winter Anthology
"A collection of contemporary literature informed by history and older art, 21st century science and philosophy, and the ending of print culture. An elegiac perspective, uninterested in banality,
The Wise Owl
The Wise Owl is a literary & arts e-magazine (Monthly) founded in November 2021. We feature established poets, writers as well as artists in our magazine and also provide a free platform to showcase writings (poetry, short stories, critique,
The Wolfian
The Wolfian is an independent voice for liberalism & social democracy, and at the same time we are keen to promote non-political content in the form of art, poetry, non-fiction
The Wordsmith Journal Magazine
The Wordsmith Journal Magazine is a monthly online magazine that was birthed in October 2011 and provides a unique and necessary product for discerning readers.
The Write Room
The Write Room is an online literary magazine that publishes quality works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. We are also interested in reviews, interviews and articles of interest to writers, as
The Writing Fae
Welcome to the enchanting world of the Writing Fae Literary Magazine, where creativity and imagination intertwine to bring you a captivating collection of literary works.
The Zodiac Review
The Zodiac Review is a quarterly literary magazine for discerning readers and writers of fine short fiction. Here you will find stories of flash fiction and short story length, each selected quarterly from submissions that cross the old lines separating literary fiction from genre fiction. And here you will find prose poetry, another form of literature that crosses boundaries to tell its stories. Among the many themes and sub-themes you may find in stories here are fate vs. free will, cosmic irony, and some of the many fascinating ways in which astrology is understood by the characters who populate the stories…subjects that expose the inscrutability of the universe and the poignancy of the human condition.
THRUSH Poetry Journal
Why the name THRUSH? Thrushes are a species of bird, the songs of some considered to be among the most beautiful in the world. We love that and that is how we feel about poems. Why is THRUSH only poetry? We love fiction, and read it often. We feel there are many beautiful journals we admire that offer prose. Our passion is poetry.
Timber Journal
Timber is run by students in the Masters of Fine Arts program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. We publish work online as well as in an annual print anthology.
Tipsy Lit
Tipsy Lit is a poetry magazine that encourages writers to dig into “the deeper” and leave the bullshit at the door. We don’t want the warm and fuzzies.
Toasted Cheese
Toasted Cheese publishes poetry, flash, fiction, creative nonfiction, and reviews. Our focus is on quality of work, therefore the number of pieces published in each issue
Toe Good Poetry
In 2004, several Oregon State underclassmen attended a poetry workshop. They bonded and began meeting to discuss poetry, politics, love, and life in general. They started referring
Too Obscene – Nostrovia! Poetry
"Too Obscene" is a one issue zine published through Nostrovia! Poetry. The zine features poetry and flash fiction that was rejected by other presses
Trafika Europe
Trafika Europe showcases current fiction and poetry in English and English translation from across the 47 Council of Europe countries
Trainless Magazine
Trainless Magazine is an online travel magazine. We publish fiction and nonfiction with a focus on living abroad, intercultural relationships
TreeHouse
TreeHouse is a place where artists can come to celebrate all forms of art. TreeHouse hosts blog posts, works of fiction
TSR: The Southampton Review
Our goal in putting The Southampton Review together is to create a literary journal that readers will keep for a very long time
Tugboat Magazine
Tugboat Magazine is always on the lookout for unpublished, original submissions in the following categories: fiction (no longer than 3000 words); poetry (not more than 100 words); essays
Turbulence
Turbulence is a quarterly printed poetry magazine based in the UK which publishes poetry from around the world. The only payment we can make is in contributor copies. These are hard copies in the EU and electronic copies outside the EU.
Twisted Vine
Twisted Vine Literary Journal is committed to showcasing undiscovered talent in the literary and visual arts.
Typehouse Literary Magazine
Typehouse Literary Magazine is a production of The People’s Ink, a Portland, Oregon-based magazine. While based in the Pacific Northwest, we publish authors from all around the country, as well as from overseas. Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction, and the Visual Arts, all come
Unbroken
At Unbroken, we love poetic prose and the prose poem. Because a haibun is a prose poem with a haiku at the end, we also love the haibun.
Uno Kudo
Uno Kudo, a collective of artists and writers from across the globe, is proud to announce the release of Volume 2: Naked, on November 20 2012. The book will explore the theme of
Unshod Quills
Independent sister site to Shanghai's HAL Publishing and Far Enough East. Based in Portland, Oregon. A theme based literary and arts journal founded by editor Dena Rash Guzman.
Urban Gothic Press
Do you revel in the dark? Have an original supernatural tale? Urban Gothic Press is a young adult literary magazine geared towards ages 14-18 that celebrates all things strange.
Urban Grapevine Magazine
We are a literary magazine with a main focus on the minority indie author/writer writing in the Urban Fiction, Hip-Hop Fiction, AA Fiction, AA Contemporary Fiction or Street Lit Fiction genre.
Utopia Science Fiction
Founded July, 2019 we are an up and coming Science Fiction Magazine dedicated to sharing stories which share a common theme - a future we want to believe in. Utopia in itself may be ever-elusive, but there's no reason we shouldn't hope for a brighter future.
Vagabonds: Anthology of the Mad Ones
Vagabonds is an anthology that is published twice a year. We had the pleasure of releasing the first edition on August 6th, 2012 and is still available for anyone who is interested in a copy.
Valiant Scribe Literary Journal
Valiant Scribe was established in December 2019 in New York City to explore the intersection of the Christian faith and social issues. It is an independent initiative
Valley Verbomania Literary Review
alley Verbomania Literary Review is a youth-led initiative dedicated to celebrating linguistics, cherishing etymologies, and establishing meaningful
Vallum: Contemporary Poetry
Founded in 2000 and based in Montreal, Vallum magazine is published biannually. Valllum provides a forum for emerging artists to interact with more established figures while giving them exposure and the confidence
Vending Machine Press
Vending Machine Press is a new and independent literary magazine aimed at giving writers an avenue for their writing to reach
Versal
We've been around for ten years, and are run out of the Netherlands (though our editors lurk everywhere). We have an integrated art team and designer
Verse-Virtual
Verse-Virtual is an online magazine of eclectic poetry. My name is Firestone Feinberg. I am the sole editor and owner of the journal.
Vita Poetica Journal
Vita Poetica Journal
- Website: https://www.vitapoetica.org/store/p/fifth-anniversary-issue-all-formats
- Print magazine: No (online quarterly publication)
- Submissions: Accepts creative work explored through a spiritual lens, including fiction, multimedia, reviews, interviews, and contemplative practices. Currently closed for poetry, creative nonfiction, and visual arts (reopening March 1, 2025). Looking for work engaging with religious faith or broader inquiry into meaning and human experience. Appreciates work that is open and thoughtful rather than didactic. Seeks diversity in experiences, backgrounds, spiritual perspectives, genres, and art disciplines. Welcomes cross-genre, cross-discipline, or multimedia experimentation. Does not accept previously published work, including web-published or self-published material. Simultaneous submissions welcome with notification.
- Other information: Asks for first-time publication rights; all rights revert to author/artist after publication. Response time up to 3 months for creative submissions, about 1 month for queries/pitches. Uses Submittable for fiction and multimedia submissions. Reviews and interviews require queries via email. No payment offered. Run by a nonprofit organization with a small team of volunteers.
- Genres: Fiction, Poetry (temporarily closed), Creative Nonfiction (temporarily closed), Visual Arts (temporarily closed), Multimedia, Reviews, Interviews, Contemplative Practices
- Publication frequency: Quarterly
- Founded: 2020
- Editors: Caroline Langston, J. Morris, Julie Wan
- Contact: Submissions via Submittable
Voices Israel
Voices Israel is an annual of international poetry published by the Voices Israel Group of Poets in Israel. Volume 35, Voices Israel 2009, is due out in May 2009 (Helen
Voicings Literary Magazine
Voicings is a literary magazine designed to provide an avenue for talented Aboriginal writers living in Canada
Voyage of Verse: A Poetry Anthology
Voyage of Verse is a poetry collective for high-school students, to be published in print and online semi-annually. Submissions are