The living index of poetry publishing.

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

Pays · Since 1972

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

No fee · Since 1950

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

Pays · Since 2017

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

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

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

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

Since 2003

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

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

UNC Wilmington magazine of place-based writing.

Since 2005

Independent journal committed to formally adventurous work outside coterie taste.

Since 1998

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

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

Pays · Since 1978

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

Since 1956

University of Illinois journal known for ambitious design collaborations.

Since 2004

Northern Michigan University journal, publishing annually; free submissions.

No fee · Since 1979

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

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

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

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

Since 2013

Online journal publishing American writers alongside international work in translation.

Since 2014

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