The living index of poetry publishing.

Boston University journal publishing poetry, fiction, and essays with an international bent. Pays contributors.

Pays · Since 1972

Cooperative poetry press founded in 1973, now at UMaine Farmington; runs open book prizes.

Since 1973

Independent poetry-only journal publishing since 1950; known for discovering new voices.

No fee · Since 1950

Free, personality-forward database and tracker of lit mags, presses, and contests.

Since 2022

Port Townsend nonprofit devoted entirely to poetry since 1972; one of the field's defining lists.

Since 1972

Paid database and submission tracker covering thousands of markets, with response-time statistics, since 2005.

Since 2005

Online poetry journal focused on new and emerging voices; pays for poems and runs frequent contests.

Pays · Since 2017

Minneapolis nonprofit with one of the most decorated poetry lists in the country.

Since 1974

WordPress plugin for publishing poems that actually render: preserves lineation, indentation, and spacing across themes and devices.

Since 2026

Long-running guide to literary magazines, presses, and calls for submissions.

Since 1996

Online poetry-only journal publishing weekly; pays $50+ per poem and runs several prizes.

Pays · Since 2017

Emerson College quarterly, each issue guest-edited by a prominent writer. Pays; small online submission fee.

$3 fee · Pays · Since 1971

The oldest poetry journal in the United States, founded 1889; published by The Writer's Center.

Since 1889

Founded in Chicago in 1912; the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world. No fee; pays by the line.

No fee · Pays · Since 1912

The field's institutional hub: databases of magazines, presses, agents, contests, and MFA programs.

Since 1970

University of Nebraska quarterly publishing since 1926; edited for years by Kwame Dawes.

Since 1926

Los Angeles poetry journal known for accessibility and its Poets Respond series. No fee, pays, fast responses.

No fee · Pays · Since 1995

The dominant submission-management platform; most journals' portals run on it.

Since 2010

Online journal with a strong youth mentorship program; a launching pad for early-career poets.

No fee · Since 2010

University of Georgia quarterly of essays, poems, fiction, and art. Pays contributors.

Pays · Since 1947

University of Iowa journal publishing three issues a year. Pays contributors.

Pays · Since 1970

Storied Ohio journal founded by John Crowe Ransom. Reads in short windows; pays contributors.

Pays · Since 1939

Quarterly of fiction, poetry, and its landmark Writers at Work interviews. Pays for accepted poems.

Pays · Since 1953

America's oldest continuously published literary quarterly, founded 1892. Pays contributors.

Pays · Since 1892

Wendy Lesser's Berkeley quarterly. Free to submit and pays well ($200 per poem).

No fee · Pays · Since 1980

Academy of American Poets first-book prize: $5,000, publication, and an all-expenses-paid residency.

Seattle poetry press known for austere design and an adventurous list.

Since 2005

The oldest annual literary award in America (1919): first-book publication by Yale University Press.

Since 1919

Print journal publishing exactly thirty-two poems per issue; champions the short poem.

Since 2003

Career-launching prize for poets who have not yet published a book; reading at the 92nd Street Y.

University of Pittsburgh Press first-book prize; winners join the Pitt Poetry Series.

First-book prize from The American Poetry Review with publication and distribution by Copper Canyon.

Revived Bennington College journal publishing adventurous poetry, fiction, and film writing.

Since 2016

University of Alabama journal, the oldest continuously run graduate-student-edited lit mag in the country.

Since 1974

Rochester nonprofit publishing poetry and poetry in translation since 1976.

Since 1976

Two annual book prizes from the University of Wisconsin Press, judged from one submission pool.

Minneapolis nonprofit publishing poetry and experimental prose.

Since 1984

Annual book prize from the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State.

Colorado State journal publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction since 1956. Pays contributors.

Pays · Since 1956

University of Colorado Denver journal; pays $30 per printed page and runs translation folios.

Pays · Since 2002

University of Denver journal with a tradition of experimental poetics.

Since 1966

Online journal of text, art, and found schematics; a home for formally inventive work. Free.

No fee · Since 2000

Duotrope's submission-management platform for journals and presses.

Since 2020

UNC Wilmington magazine of place-based writing.

Since 2005

Independent journal committed to formally adventurous work outside coterie taste.

Since 1998

Independent New York poetry and short-fiction press with open reading periods.

Since 1993

University of Houston journal of literature and fine arts. Pays contributors.

Pays · Since 1986

Arizona State University journal publishing international work alongside emerging U.S. writers.

Since 1986

Quarterly at the intersection of art, faith, and mystery. Pays contributors.

Pays · Since 1989

Graduate-edited Indiana University journal; runs the 1/2 K and poetry prizes.

Since 1976

University of Michigan's flagship interdisciplinary quarterly. Pays contributors.

Pays · Since 1962

Bowling Green State journal with a long-running translation chapbook feature.

Since 1981

Independent Minneapolis publisher with a strong ecological and poetic list.

Since 1980

Five winning manuscripts published annually by participating trade and university presses.

Since 1978

Middlebury quarterly with a long record of publishing major poets early. Pays contributors.

Pays · Since 1978

Brooklyn press publishing poetry and hybrid work at the experimental edge.

Since 2004

University of Tulsa journal; runs the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry.

Since 1956

University of Illinois journal known for ambitious design collaborations.

Since 2004

Bay Area publisher of innovative poetry; runs open-book and chapbook contests.

Since 1999

Northern Michigan University journal, publishing annually; free submissions.

No fee · Since 1979

Independent New York house with a long-standing poetry list including the Lexi Rudnitsky prizes.

Since 1975

University of Central Missouri journal; strong in reviews of small-press poetry.

Since 1991

Pacific Northwest poetry magazine founded in 1959; edited with an eye for lyric intelligence.

Since 1959

Independent Chicago-area poetry annual, all-volunteer since 1976.

Since 1976

Suffolk University journal publishing poetry, fiction, and works in translation.

Since 1992

Louisville independent publishing poetry and short prose; runs the Morton and McCarthy prizes.

Since 1994

Washington and Lee journal, now online; pays $100 per poem.

Pays · Since 1950

Online poetry and art journal with a sharp, spare aesthetic. Free to submit.

No fee · Since 2008

University of Arizona's graduate-run journal, publishing since 1980.

Since 1980

Online magazine with a voice-driven, pop-culture-inflected aesthetic. Pays contributors; free monthly windows.

Pays · Since 2012

Independent poetry-only journal out of Utah.

Since 2009

College of Charleston journal, formerly Crazyhorse (renamed 2022). Pays contributors.

Pays · Since 1960

University of Cincinnati journal; publishes miCRo flash features online. Pays contributors.

Pays · Since 2003

Ohio State University's literary magazine; runs the Wheeler Poetry Prize with OSU Press.

Since 1973

UMass Amherst quarterly of literature, arts, and public affairs.

Since 1959

University of Missouri quarterly; runs the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize. Pays contributors.

Pays · Since 1978

LSU quarterly founded by Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks. Pays contributors.

Pays · Since 1935

Free submission tracker with market listings and response statistics.

Since 2013

Online poetry journal publishing short, high-compression lyric work. Free to submit.

No fee · Since 2011

Northwestern University's journal, now published online with video essays.

Since 1964

Independent literary press in North Adams, MA; open submissions and multiple book prizes.

Since 1999

Online journal of poetry, prose, and cross-genre work from Tupelo Press.

Since 2013

Brooklyn collective publishing poetry, translation, and artist books in letterpress editions.

Since 1993

Home of the Pitt Poetry Series, one of the most widely read university-press poetry lists.

Since 1936

Online journal publishing American writers alongside international work in translation.

Since 2014

University press whose poetry series has published Ashbery, Rich, and generations since.

Since 1957

Bucknell University journal publishing poetry, fiction, and essays. Pays contributors.

Pays · Since 1977

Online journal of short poems and micro-essays; free to submit and warmly edited.

No fee · Since 2015

Eastern Washington University journal publishing since 1977.

Since 1977

San Francisco journal of West Coast writers and artists. Pays contributors.

Pays · Since 1985

Online magazine and community hub famous for its Where to Submit lists; ceased publication in 2021.

Since 2014

The celebrated Portland magazine closed its print quarterly in 2019; the book press and workshops continue.

Since 1999