The Adroit Journal
journalOnline journal with a strong youth mentorship program; a launching pad for early-career poets.
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The Cincinnati Review
journalUniversity of Cincinnati literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction twice yearly, plus miCRo, a weekly online series of works 500 words or fewer; pays contributors.
The Georgia Review
journalUniversity of Georgia quarterly of essays, poems, fiction, and art. Pays contributors.
The Journal
journalOhio State University's literary magazine, publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction since 1973; co-administers the Wheeler Poetry Prize with Ohio State University Press.
The Kenyon Review
journalStoried Ohio journal founded by John Crowe Ransom. Reads in short windows; pays contributors.
The Massachusetts Review
journalUMass Amherst quarterly of literature, arts, and public affairs, known for pairing poetry and fiction with politically engaged essays and administering the annual Anne Halley Poetry Prize.
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 Slowdown
newsletterDaily poem with a short reflection, delivered as podcast and email; created by former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith.
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).
THRUSH Poetry Journal
journalOnline poetry journal that published short, high-compression lyric work monthly from 2011 until its final issue in November 2024; submissions are now permanently closed but the archive remains online.
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.
Tupelo Quarterly
journalOnline literary magazine from Tupelo Press publishing poetry, prose, cross-genre work, translation, and reviews in rolling numbered issues.
Ugly Duckling Presse
pressBrooklyn-based nonprofit collective publishing letterpress and hand-bound editions of poetry, translation, drama, and artist books, run cooperatively rather than by a single editor-in-chief.
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.