Oakland-based independent press (founded 1999) for innovative poetry and fabulist fiction, publishing primarily through a slate of annual juried contests (Open Book, 1st/2nd Book, Chapbook, Broadside, and Fabulist Fiction Chapbook prizes) and distributed by the University of Chicago Press.
Online poetry-only journal publishing weekly; pays $50+ per poem and runs several prizes.
Northern Michigan University's literary journal, publishing an annual print issue plus an actively updated online section of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction; runs the Waasnode Fiction Prize and Neutrino Short-Short Prize contests.
Independent New York house founded in 1975, known for a five-decade poetry list (Celan, Hikmet, Mandelstam, Rosal) and the annual Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award for debut women poets.
Emerson College quarterly, each issue guest-edited by a prominent writer. Pays; small online submission fee.
The oldest poetry journal in the United States, founded 1889; published by The Writer's Center.
Founded in Chicago in 1912; the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world. No fee; pays by the line.
Pacific Northwest poetry magazine founded in 1959, published online and in print, known for the James Welch Prize and lyric-forward editorial sensibility.
The field's institutional hub: databases of magazines, presses, agents, contests, and MFA programs.
University of Nebraska quarterly publishing since 1926; edited for years by Kwame Dawes.
Los Angeles poetry journal known for accessibility and its Poets Respond series. No fee, pays, fast responses.
Suffolk University–based literary magazine (founded 1992) publishing poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, translation, and art, and running an annual fiction contest and emerging-poet chapbook award.
Louisville nonprofit independent press publishing poetry, short fiction, and essay; discovers new work chiefly through the Morton Prize in Poetry and Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction.
Washington and Lee University's long-running literary journal, now published online twice yearly; pays $100 per poem.
Online poetry and art journal known for a spare, surreal aesthetic, with an annual print anthology and an affiliated chapbook press, Sixth Finch Books.
University of Arizona's MFA-run literary magazine, publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction since 1980, with an active online arm and periodic themed contests.
Monthly online literary magazine publishing flash fiction, fiction, poetry, and memoir, known for a voice-driven, pop-culture-inflected aesthetic and an active contributor-focused blog (Lip Service).