Discover the all-time most popular poetry literary magazines. These outlets have maintained a significant presence in the world of poetry.

Poetry for the ear, the eye, and the ego.

George David Clark

Elisabeth Clark

David Eye

J.P. Grasser

Christopher Kondrich

Cate Lycurgus

Matt Morton

Sarah Rose Nordgren

Dustin Pearson

Michael Shewmaker

Kathleen Winter

Deborah Ager

John Poch

32 Poems

$ rejects cultural preoccupation with financial worth. $ loves poetry’s inherent non-monetary, anti-capitalist value. $ seeks poets who write what they believe most important, regardless of economics and the market.

Steven D. Schroeder

Alexandra Burack

Mackenzie Carignan

Allison Cundiff

Julio Cesar Diaz

$ - Poetry Is Currency

Our mission is to promote the practice of poetry,

Alan Fox

Timothy Green

Katie Dozier

Megan O’Reilly

Rattle

An independent literary organization committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture

Holly Amos

Angela Flores

Lindsay Garbutt

Jeremy Lybarger

Adrian Matejka

Shoshana Olidort

Poetry

The American Poetry Review is dedicated to reaching a worldwide audience with a diverse array of the best contemporary poetry and literary prose. The American Poetry Review has been in continuous publication since 1972 and has presented the work of over 8,000 writers.

Elizabeth Scanlon

The American Poetry Review

Fall in love with poetry. Send us your weird, wild & wonderful poems & book reviews. As Leonard Cohen said, “Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."

Karan Kapoor

Shannan Mann

Justine Payton

Svetlana Litvinchuk

ONLY POEMS

Fast Response: Poet of the Week

FREE SUBS: Poet of the Week (Winter Reading Period)

FREE SUBS: Poet of the Week (Summer Reading Period)

Poem of the Month: December

We are looking for poetry that pushes language forward, for poets and poems that strive to place themselves at the edge of what language can do.

Joanna Acevedo

Tyler Allen Penny

Joshua Roark

Frontier Poetry

digital magazine for poetry. new poem every monday. 

Sarah Ghazal Ali

Palette Poetry

ONE ART is a home for good poems. We aim to publish poetry that adds value to the life of our readers. We hope to offer, sustain, and nourish a kind, inviting, and thoughtful community.

Mark Danowsky

Louisa Schnaithmann

ONE ART: a journal of poetry

America's oldest poetry magazine, publishing in print since 1889. Poet Lore is a biannual print journal of poetry, featuring the finest in contemporary writing. We love featuring poems that broaden the spectrum of what poetry is – and can be – on the page.

Emily Holland

Pat Davis

Poet Lore

#Ranger is dedicated to experimental art, poetry, music and film.  

Experimental Poetry

Experimental music

Experimental film

David A. Bishop

#Ranger

We want work that investigates and divines, that searches out and wants. We’re looking for accidental visitors, harbingers, and spectres.

TR Brady

Maggie Nipps

Afternoon Visitor

A publisher and weekly journal committed to sharing accessible work and compensating our contributors fairly.

Tarik Dobbs

Julian Robles

Daniel Barnum

Poetry Online (poetry.onl)

For over 40 years, Arc has been pub­lish­ing the best in con­tem­po­rary poetry. Arc invites sub­mis­sions from poets at all stages of their writing careers.

Chris Johnson

Manahil Bandukwala

Meagan Black

Arc Poetry

Triannual online publication of poetry, book reviews, interviews, and essays. Diode is also home to Diode Editions, an independent press based in Doha, Qatar and Richmond, Virginia.

PATTY PAINE

Law Alsobrook

Diode Poetry Journal

“Like Sylvia Plath reading Butt Magazine”. Fourteen Poems is a London-based poetry journal, publishing the most exciting LGBTQ+ poets 3 times a year.

fourteen poems

14 is an annual poetry magazine devoted to poems of 14 lines only.

Richard Skinner

14 magazine

Julian Day

+doc

Reading for +doc.7, .8

A bimonthly magazine of history, culture, and politics targeting an educated readership of LGBT individuals that publishes essays in a wide range of disciplines as well as reviews of books, movies, and plays, poetry and more

Richard Schneider Jr.

The Gay & Lesbian Review

Since it was founded in 1912, The Poetry Review has been home to the world’s best writing – by both internationally renowned and emerging poets, newcomers and Nobel Prize winners.

The Poetry Review

We love poems surging with imagery, your surreal, your gothic, caverns, labyrinths, the depths of the abyss, your grit, your confessional, your shrapnel of memories spun to dark velvet.

 Louise Mather

Acropolis Journal

Acumen’s aim is to be wide-ranging, publishing contemporary poets both known and unknown, relying on the strength of the poetry rather than the name behind it.

Danielle Hope

Patricia  Oxley

Andrew Geary

Acumen

An online poetry publication seeking cutting, strange, and daring work from new and established poets alike.

Caroline Chavatel

Sarah Brockhaus

John A. Nieves

Taylor N. Schaefer

Tyler Truman Julian

Siobhan Jean-Charles

Ella Flores

Lisa Compo

The Shore Poetry

Josephine Quarterly (ISSN 2334-5888) is an online literary magazine celebrating the resilience and voices of underrepresented poets. We aim to publish four issues a year, but we are always reading and are interested in work from both established and new voices.

Jenny Sadre-Orafai

Komal Mathew

Josephine Quarterly

Poetry Ireland Review is a highly-regarded journal of poetry. Published three times a year, the Review includes the work of both emerging and established Irish and international poets, essayists, critics and visual artists. 

Paul Lenehan

Poetry Ireland Review

Most Popular Poetry-Only Literary Magazines of All Time