The living index of poetry publishing.

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

Pays · Since 1972

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

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

Los Angeles poetry journal known for accessibility and its Poets Respond series. No fee, pays, fast responses.

No fee · Pays · Since 1995

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

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 Houston journal of literature and fine arts. Pays contributors.

Pays · Since 1986

Quarterly at the intersection of art, faith, and mystery. Pays contributors.

Pays · Since 1989

University of Michigan's flagship interdisciplinary quarterly. Pays contributors.

Pays · Since 1962

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

Pays · Since 1978

Washington and Lee journal, now online; pays $100 per poem.

Pays · Since 1950

Online magazine with a voice-driven, pop-culture-inflected aesthetic. Pays contributors; free monthly windows.

Pays · Since 2012

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

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

Bucknell University journal publishing poetry, fiction, and essays. Pays contributors.

Pays · Since 1977

San Francisco journal of West Coast writers and artists. Pays contributors.

Pays · Since 1985