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The Kenyon Review
journalStoried Ohio journal founded by John Crowe Ransom. Reads in short windows; pays contributors.
The Missouri Review
journalUniversity of Missouri quarterly literary magazine founded in 1978; accepts submissions year-round and runs the Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize and Perkoff Prize. Pays contributors.
The Paris Review
journalQuarterly of fiction, poetry, and its landmark Writers at Work interviews. Pays for accepted poems.
The Sewanee Review
journalAmerica's oldest continuously published literary quarterly, founded 1892. Pays contributors.
The Southern Review
journalLSU quarterly founded in 1935 by Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks, publishing fiction, poetry, and nonfiction; issues sold individually.
The Threepenny Review
journalWendy Lesser's Berkeley quarterly. Free to submit and pays well ($200 per poem).
Tupelo Press
pressIndependent nonprofit literary press in North Adams, MA, publishing poetry chiefly through an annual open reading period rather than contests, offering a $1,000 advance and full support to selected authors.
University of Pittsburgh Press (Pitt Poetry Series)
pressPublisher of the Pitt Poetry Series, a decades-old, high-volume university-press poetry list whose primary open entry point for new poets is the annual Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.
West Branch
journalBucknell University's literary magazine, founded in 1977, publishing poetry, fiction, translation, essays, and reviews; twice-yearly issues plus occasional themed folios. Pays contributors.
ZYZZYVA
journalSan Francisco literary magazine founded in 1985, known for showcasing West Coast writers and paying contributors for fiction, poetry, and essays.