Poetry Magazine

Founded by Harriet Monroe in Chicago in 1912, Poetry is the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world, and its early years alone would justify the reputation: it gave first or early major publication to Eliot's "Prufrock," Pound's Imagism, Stevens, Williams, Moore, and Frost. The magazine has been continuously published for over a century without missing an issue.

Since 2003 it has been published by the Poetry Foundation, the independent literary organization created when Ruth Lilly's bequest — reported above $200 million — transformed the little magazine into the best-endowed institution in American poetry. Submissions are free through Submittable, all styles are considered, and payment is $10 per line with a $300 minimum. Response times run long (often six months or more), but a Poetry credit remains the most widely recognized line in a poet's bio.