ONLY POEMS
Literary Magazine
Fall in love with poetry. Send us your weird, wild & wonderful poems, essays, interviews, & reviews. As Leonard Cohen said, “Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
Highlights
- Vibe:Top-tier stuff. Not Paris Review, but ok
- Response time: 8 weeks*/Editor reported data35 days*Chill Subs tracker stats
- Acceptance rate: 1% */Editor reported data1.607033898305085%*Chill Subs tracker stats
Payssee Genres section for details
Find more details in the Genres section
FeeNo
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
From the editors
We accept previously “uncurated” work. By this we mean work that has not previously been selected by an editor to appear in their magazine.
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
From the editors
Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
From the editors
5
What's that?
Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee
Nonfiction
Sub Genres: All / surprise us, , , , , , , ,
Payment: $ 22 per piece
Flash Nonfiction
Payment: $ 22 per piece
No specific limitations
Poetry
Payment: $ 55
Hybrid
Payment: $ 22 per piece
No specific limitations
Review
Payment: $ 22 per piece
No specific limitations
Interview
No specific limitations
Art
Payment: $ 22 per piece
No specific limitations
Humor
Payment: $ 22
No specific limitations
Comics
No specific limitations
How to submit
Processs
Submittable
Cover letter
We love cover letters and would prefer knowing whose work we are reading. We care about your identity. You are welcome to share your publication history, if any, though that would not influence our decision.
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
- PDF or DOCX - EB Garamond - 13-point font size - 1.15 line space *special formatting welcome *if for technical reasons you cannot follow our preferred formatting, that is totally okay
Author's rights
Our author agreement states the following: “Thank you for permission to publish your work on our website. The site is governed by a Creative Commons license, which states that the works though available online, remain the property of the individual authors and cannot be modified or exploited commercially without your permission. Other than this one-time permission to publish online and archive, you retain all rights to your work. If authors republish their poems after initial publication, we request that they in good faith, give first-publication credit to ONLY POEMS.”
Additional info
Tracker statistics
472
Total submissions tracked
35 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
1 days
Fastest response time
142 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 332 days, 229 days, 151 days, 152 days, 228 days, 143 days, 151 days, 151 days, 151 days, 151 days, 151 days, 151 days, 151 days, 151 days, 151 days, 151 days, -326 days
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Submission calls
Poet of the Week
- Free Submissions are open the first 3 days of every month - Fast Response ($7) will remain open always
Read morePitch us!
The literary world can be…a lot. We want to provide writers with the resources and insights to make sense
Read moreAbout
There are so many ways to delight in poetry. We are a bit obsessive — when we like a poem, we immediately want to see more of the poet’s work. Most literary magazines we love follow a poem-a-day model, focusing on the singular poetic spark. We want to create a space to invite poets to lay before us ...
Read moreFounded
2023
Country
US
Masthead
Karan Kapoor
Editor-in-Chief
Shannan Mann
Founding Editor
Justine Payton
Managing Editor