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Poetry Submissions: Top Places To Submit Your Poems in 2024
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Learn more →Composing compelling poetry requires writers to dig deep and unlock their knack for creative expression. It’s not an easy task, and while your ultimate goal might be to see your poems on the pages of literary magazines, the thought of getting the submission process going — the potential of rejection — might feel a little daunting.
But we’re here to make poetry submissions easier by narrowing down some of our favorite magazines and periodicals. To help you start your research, we've got information on each magazine's deadlines, compensation policy, and submission guidelines.
Be sure to visit the site of anywhere you're interested in submitting to for the most up-to-date info, as deadlines can be seasonal or change without notice.
32 Poems
About: “As a rule, we publish shorter poems that fit on a single page (about 32 lines), though we sometimes make exceptions to accommodate remarkable work that runs a little longer. Please send no more than five poems (in a single document, if submitting online) and no more than one active submission at a time.”
Deadline: Ongoing
Compensation: $25 per poem
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The American Poetry Review
About: “The American Poetry Review is dedicated to reaching a worldwide audience with a diverse array of the best contemporary poetry and literary prose. APR also aims to expand the audience interested in poetry and literature, and to provide authors, especially poets, with a far-reaching forum in which to present their work.”
Deadline: Ongoing
Compensation: $1 per line of poetry
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Amsterdam Review
About: “Amsterdam Review is an online literary magazine of poetry (including translations), flash fiction, interviews, review, essays, and visual arts which publishes works by international contributors twice a year, and is always open for submissions. ”
Deadline: None
Compensation: None
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Arc Poetry Magazine
About: “Arc accepts unsolicited submissions of previously unpublished poetry in English, or translations of poetry into English, on any subject and in any form.”
Deadline: April 1st - July 31st (for Winter issue), September 1st - January 31st (for Summer issue)
Compensation: $50 per page
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Believer Mag
About: “The Believer, a five-time National Magazine Award finalist, is a bimonthly literature, arts, and culture magazine based at the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute, a department of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.”
Deadline: Ongoing
Compensation: Payment for unsolicited submissions is not specified
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Beloit Poetry Journal
About: “We are open to a wide range of forms and styles in contemporary poetry. We are always watching for new poets, quickened language, and work that offers a fresh purchase on the political or social landscape.”
Deadline: January 1st - February 28th, June 1st - August 31st
Compensation: Payment for unsolicited submissions is not specified
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Commaful
About: “Here you'll find many types of poems on a variety of topics written by poets from all over the world. You'll find poetry that can teach you new things, make you feel, and make you think. Don't see your favorite type of poem? Give it a search or make it on Commaful and get it featured!”
Deadline: None
Compensation: None
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The Common
About: “We seek stories, essays, poems, and dispatches that embody a strong sense of place: pieces in which the setting is crucial to character, narrative, mood, and language. We receive many submissions about traveling in foreign countries and discourage writers from submitting conventional travelogues in which narrators report on experiences abroad without reflecting on larger themes.”
Deadline: March 1st - June 1st, September 1st - December 1st
Compensation: $20 per poem
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Crazyhorse
About: “Crazyhorse aims to publish work that reflects the multiple poetries of the twenty-first century. While our taste represents a wide range of aesthetics, from poets at all stages of their writing careers, we read with a discerning eye for poems that demonstrate a rhetorical and formal intelligence—that is, poems that know why they are written in the manner that they are.”
Deadline: September 1st - May 31st
Compensation: $20 per page of layout with a maximum $200 payment
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Epoch
About: “EPOCH magazine publishes fiction, poetry, essays, cartoons, screenplays, graphic art, and graphic fiction. In continuous publication since 1947, the magazine is edited by faculty in the Department of English Program in Creative Writing at Cornell University. We consider poetry in all forms, including the long poem.”
Deadline: September 15th - April 15th
Compensation: $50 per poem
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The Kenyon Review
About: “Building on a tradition of excellence dating back to 1939, the Kenyon Review has evolved from a distinguished literary magazine to a pre-eminent arts organization. Today, KR is devoted to nurturing, publishing, and celebrating the best in contemporary writing. We’re expanding the community of diverse readers and writers, across the globe, at every stage of their lives.”
Deadline: September 1st - September 30th
Compensation: Payment for unsolicited submissions is not specified
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The Nation
About: “The Nation welcomes unsolicited poetry submissions. You may send up to three poems at a time, but no more than 6 poems a year. No simultaneous submissions, or previously published works, please. Submissions are not accepted from June 1 to September 15.”
Deadline: Ongoing
Compensation: Payment for unsolicited submissions is not specified
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The New England Review
About: “We welcome and encourage poetry submissions from writers of every nationality, race, religion, and gender, including writers who have never been affiliated with an MFA program and whose perspectives are often underrepresented in the literary world.”
Deadline: September 1st - November 1st, March 1st - May 31st
Compensation: $20 per page ($50 minimum)
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The New Yorker
About: “Send up to six poems per submission, but please do not submit more than twice in twelve months. We do not consider work that has appeared elsewhere (this includes all Web sites and personal blogs). We are interested in translations of poems that have never been published in English.”
Deadline: Ongoing
Compensation: Payment for unsolicited submissions is not specified
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The Paris Review
About: “Send up to six poems per submission, but please do not submit more than twice in twelve months. We do not consider work that has appeared elsewhere (this includes all Web sites and personal blogs). We are interested in translations of poems that have never been published in English.”
Deadline: March and September for online submissions, ongoing for postal submissions
Compensation: Payment for unsolicited submissions is not specified
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Poetry Magazine
About: “We examine all work received and accept that which seems best. We consider original works written in the English language as well as translations of poetry into English. We regret that the volume of submissions received and the small size of our staff do not permit us to give individual criticism.”
Deadline: Ongoing
Compensation: $10 per line ($300 minimum)
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Prairie Schooner
About: “Prairie Schooner publishes short stories, poems, imaginative essays of general interest, and reviews of current books of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. For poetry, send a selection of 5-7 poems contained within a single document.”
Deadline: September 1st - May 1st
Compensation: Payment for unsolicited submissions is not specified
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Rattle
About: “ We’re looking for poems that move us, that might make us laugh or cry, or teach us something new. We like both free verse and traditional forms—we try to publish a representative mix of what we receive. We read a lot of poems, and only those that are unique, insightful, and musical stand out—regardless of style.”
Deadline: Ongoing
Compensation: $100 per poem for online contributors, $200 per poem for print contributors
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*Note: Rattle also runs a prestigious chapbook contest.
The Rumpus
About: “We strive to be a platform for marginalized voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere, and to lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers we love. We work to shine a light on stories that build bridges, tear down walls, and speak truth to power.”
Deadline: January 15th - 31st, and July 15th - 31st
Compensation: Read about The Rumpus’ compensation policy here
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The Southern Review
About: “The Southern Review strives to discover and promote a diverse array of engaging, relevant, and challenging literature—including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation from literary luminaries as well as the best established and emerging writers. The journal also features a broad range of visual artists from across the South and around the globe.”
Deadline: October 1st - January 1st
Compensation: $50 for the first printed page and $25 for each subsequent printed page
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The Threepenny Review
About: “The Threepenny Review is an American literary magazine founded in 1980. It is published in Berkeley, California, by founding editor Wendy Lesser. Maintaining a quarterly schedule (March, June, September, December), it offers fiction, memoirs, poetry, essays, and criticism to a readership of 10,000.”
Deadline: January 1st - April 30th
Compensation: $200 per poem
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TriQuarterly
About: “We are especially interested in work that embraces the world and continues, however subtly, the ongoing global conversation about culture and society that TriQuarterly pursued from its beginning in 1964.”
Deadline: October-December, and March-May
Compensation: TriQuarterly pays honoraria for published work.
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If you're looking for even more places to submit poetry, check out our directory of literary magazines. There are countless places waiting for your poetry submissions — you just need to know where to look.
Don’t forget to check out some of our other poetry resources including our guides on how to make a chapbook and finding the right poetry editor for you.
