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journalPrint journal publishing exactly thirty-two poems per issue; champions the short poem and features accompanying interviews and craft prose.
Print journal publishing exactly thirty-two poems per issue; champions the short poem and features accompanying interviews and craft prose.
Boston University journal publishing poetry, fiction, and essays with an international bent. Pays contributors.
Independent poetry-only journal publishing since 1950; known for discovering new voices.
Revived Bennington College literary journal, edited by Michael Dumanis, known for genre-crossing, visually striking issues pairing adventurous poetry and fiction with film writing and art.
University of Alabama literary magazine, edited by MFA students, and the oldest continuously run graduate-student-edited lit mag in the country; publishes poetry, prose, comics, and art in two issues a year.
Colorado State University literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction since 1956, with an active book review and interview series.
Biannual literary journal at the University of Colorado Denver, founded by Jake Adam York in 2002 and relaunched under Wayne Miller; known for translation folios and paying $30 per printed page.
University of Denver literary journal founded by John Williams in 1966, known for experimental poetics and cross-genre work, with a digital companion publication, F I V E S.
Long-running online journal (since 2000) for formally inventive text, hybrid/visual work, and found schematics, published via New Michigan Press.
UNC Wilmington literary magazine of place-based writing, publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction since 2005.
Online poetry journal focused on new and emerging voices; pays for poems and runs frequent contests.
University of Houston-based literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and literary translation twice a year, plus an ongoing online-exclusives series; pays contributors.
Arizona State University's MFA-run literary magazine, publishing international poetry and prose alongside emerging U.S. writers since 1986.
Quarterly journal of art, literature, and religious faith, known for serious, non-doctrinaire engagement with belief; pays contributors.
Biannual literary magazine from Indiana University's English Department, known for eclectic, "carefully strange" work and its annual Half-K Prize.
Founded in 1962, the University of Michigan's flagship interdisciplinary literary quarterly publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and translation, with an active online counterpart (MQR Online).
Long-running Bowling Green State University journal (est. 1981) known for its poetry, fiction, and a notable translation chapbook series; currently on hiatus after its May 2026 issue.
Middlebury College quarterly known for launching major poets and writers early in their careers; pays contributors and recently added poet Matthew Olzmann as poetry editor.
University of Tulsa's biannual literary journal, publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction since 1956; best known for administering the annual Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry.