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journalArizona State University's MFA-run literary magazine, publishing international poetry and prose alongside emerging U.S. writers since 1986.
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.
Free daily email digest from Literary Hub compiling that day's literary criticism, news, and features (plus CrimeReads and Book Marks content); poetry coverage appears intermittently via roundups and interviews rather than as a dedicated submission channel.
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.
Nonprofit Minneapolis press founded in 1980, known for ecological and place-based literature, publishing poetry (Ada Limón, Jake Skeets, Fady Joudah) alongside literary fiction and nonfiction.
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.
Brooklyn-based nonprofit press publishing poetry, hybrid, and intergenre work at the experimental edge, with a strong line in archival queer and trans writing.
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.
University of Illinois literary journal known for ambitious print design and pairing writers with visual artists, publishing fiction, poetry, and nonfiction alongside an online features arm.
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.
A free daily email from the Poetry Foundation pairing archive poems and Poetry magazine selections with historic dates, anniversaries, and themes; not a submission venue.
The only daily series featuring previously unpublished poems, curated by a rotating guest editor. Free by email; also a podcast.