32 Poems
journalPrint journal publishing exactly thirty-two poems per issue; champions the short poem and features accompanying interviews and craft prose.
JOURNALS.
Where poems find first publication — and where the information goes stale fastest.
A journal listing here tells you what matters before you submit: whether they're reading now, what it costs, whether they pay, and how long the masthead has been at it. Reading periods shift. Fees appear quietly. Editors move on and response times triple. The index watches for those changes so the facts on this page stay closer to true than the lore does.
Where the editor has audited a journal's website, the listing carries a tech report card — whether the site preserves lineation, whether the archive holds still, whether your poem survives a phone screen. When anything changes — a window opens, a fee doubles, a magazine goes dark — it lands in the changelog, dated and sourced.
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AGNI
journalBoston University journal publishing poetry, fiction, and essays with an international bent. Pays contributors.
Beloit Poetry Journal
journalIndependent poetry-only journal publishing since 1950; known for discovering new voices.
Bennington Review
journalRevived Bennington College literary journal, edited by Michael Dumanis, known for genre-crossing, visually striking issues pairing adventurous poetry and fiction with film writing and art.
Black Warrior Review
journalUniversity of Alabama literary magazine, edited by MFA students, and the oldest continuously run graduate-student-edited lit mag in the country; publishes poetry, prose, comics, and art in two issues a year.
Colorado Review
journalColorado State University literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction since 1956, with an active book review and interview series.
Copper Nickel
journalBiannual literary journal at the University of Colorado Denver, founded by Jake Adam York in 2002 and relaunched under Wayne Miller; known for translation folios and paying $30 per printed page.
Denver Quarterly
journalUniversity of Denver literary journal founded by John Williams in 1966, known for experimental poetics and cross-genre work, with a digital companion publication, F I V E S.
DIAGRAM
journalLong-running online journal (since 2000) for formally inventive text, hybrid/visual work, and found schematics, published via New Michigan Press.
Ecotone
journalUNC Wilmington literary magazine of place-based writing, publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction since 2005.
Entropy
journalOnline magazine and community hub famous for its Where to Submit lists; ceased publication in 2021.
Frontier Poetry
journalOnline poetry journal focused on new and emerging voices; pays for poems and runs frequent contests.
Gulf Coast
journalUniversity of Houston-based literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, and literary translation twice a year, plus an ongoing online-exclusives series; pays contributors.
Hayden's Ferry Review
journalArizona State University's MFA-run literary magazine, publishing international poetry and prose alongside emerging U.S. writers since 1986.
Image
journalQuarterly journal of art, literature, and religious faith, known for serious, non-doctrinaire engagement with belief; pays contributors.
Indiana Review
journalBiannual literary magazine from Indiana University's English Department, known for eclectic, "carefully strange" work and its annual Half-K Prize.
Michigan Quarterly Review
journalFounded in 1962, the University of Michigan's flagship interdisciplinary literary quarterly publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and translation, with an active online counterpart (MQR Online).
Mid-American Review
journalLong-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.
New England Review
journalMiddlebury College quarterly known for launching major poets and writers early in their careers; pays contributors and recently added poet Matthew Olzmann as poetry editor.
Nimrod International Journal
journalUniversity of Tulsa's biannual literary journal, publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction since 1956; best known for administering the annual Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry.
Ninth Letter
journalUniversity 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.
Palette Poetry
journalOnline poetry-only journal publishing weekly; pays $50+ per poem and runs several prizes.
Passages North
journalNorthern 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.
Ploughshares
journalEmerson College quarterly, each issue guest-edited by a prominent writer. Pays; small online submission fee.
Poet Lore
journalThe oldest poetry journal in the United States, founded 1889; published by The Writer's Center.
Poetry Magazine
journalFounded in Chicago in 1912; the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world. No fee; pays by the line.
Poetry Northwest
journalPacific Northwest poetry magazine founded in 1959, published online and in print, known for the James Welch Prize and lyric-forward editorial sensibility.
Prairie Schooner
journalUniversity of Nebraska quarterly publishing since 1926; edited for years by Kwame Dawes.
Rattle
journalLos Angeles poetry journal known for accessibility and its Poets Respond series. No fee, pays, fast responses.
Salamander
journalSuffolk 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.
Shenandoah
journalWashington and Lee University's long-running literary journal, now published online twice yearly; pays $100 per poem.
Sixth Finch
journalOnline poetry and art journal known for a spare, surreal aesthetic, with an annual print anthology and an affiliated chapbook press, Sixth Finch Books.
Sonora Review
journalUniversity of Arizona's MFA-run literary magazine, publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction since 1980, with an active online arm and periodic themed contests.
Split Lip Magazine
journalMonthly 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).
Sugar House Review
journalIndependent, nonprofit poetry-only journal based in Utah, publishing two issues a year including a chapbook series.
swamp pink
journalCollege of Charleston literary journal, formerly Crazyhorse (founded 1960, renamed swamp pink in 2022). Publishes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction twice a year and pays contributors.
The Adroit Journal
journalOnline journal with a strong youth mentorship program; a launching pad for early-career poets.
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 Shore
journalOnline poetry quarterly seeking "cutting, strange, and daring" work, read via email submissions in fixed quarterly windows, free to submit, with unusually fast (1–10 day) responses.
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.
Tin House
journalThe celebrated Portland magazine closed its print quarterly in 2019; the book press and workshops continue.
Tupelo Quarterly
journalOnline literary magazine from Tupelo Press publishing poetry, prose, cross-genre work, translation, and reviews in rolling numbered issues.
Waxwing
journalOnline literary journal publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and reviews, known for pairing American writers with international writers in translation.
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.
Whale Road Review
journalQuarterly online journal of short poems, micro-essays, book reviews, interviews, and pedagogy papers, edited by Katie Manning since 2015; free to submit, with optional reader tips to contributors in lieu of standard pay.
Willow Springs
journalLiterary journal published by Eastern Washington University's MFA program since 1977, featuring poetry, fiction, essays, and in-depth author interviews.
ZYZZYVA
journalSan Francisco literary magazine founded in 1985, known for showcasing West Coast writers and paying contributors for fiction, poetry, and essays.
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