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    19 Lit Mags for Impatient Poets Open Now (With Response Times Under One Week)

    So, you wrote a poem. Goodie! Time to collect those rejection letters—I mean, find the right home for your work. There is no doubt though—rejection or acceptance—waiting sucks. Well, no fear, no reloading submittable over-and-over, checking and rechecking your spam. These nineteen journals will let you know if they want your poem in a week or less.

    Challenge: see how many you can submit to in a day and just binge on those letters.

    1) Amethyst Review

    2) Bending Genres (*note: No simultaneous submissions)

    3) Bibliopunk (*note: Accepts work previously posted on social media and personal websites)

    4) Coexist Literary Magazine

    5) DED Poetry

    6) Filter Coffee Zine

    7) Ice Queen Magazine (*note: Pays $50)

    8) Lead & Pulp Poetry (*note: pays $2 per poem)

    9) Neologism Poetry Journal

    10) ONE ART: a journal of poetry (*note: Accept poems published on your personal blog or social media.)

    11) The Penn Review

    12) Pink Plastic House

    13) Soft Star Magazine (*note: Accept previously published)

    14) Sour Cherry Mag

    15) Terror House Magazine

    16) Thrush

    17) Typishly (*note: charges a fee but comes with a nugget of feedback.)

    18) āraśi