These magazines accept poetry of various types. A few of them also accept other genres, like fiction and nonfiction. Some of them pay writers. Many, but not all the magazines, are open for submissions now.
14 magazine
This is an annual poetry magazine. Poems must be 14 lines long, excluding the title; send up to 3 poems. Their reading period is 1 April to 30 June each year. Please note, contributors outside Europe can either opt for a PDF contributor copy, or cover postage for the print copy. Details here.
Cacti Fur
Their tagline is, a poetry dry ground. Send up to 5 poems. The deadline is 30 April 2025. Details here.
Lana Turner
Their tagline is, A Journal of Poetry & Opinion. Submit up to 5 pages of poetry. Apart from poems, they also accept “short, concise, sophisticated essays on art, movies, music, philosophy, politics – in short, belonging to the field of the humanities.” The deadline is 30 April 2025. Details here.
Plume
Plume is a magazine of contemporary poetry; you can read about them here and here. Send up to 3 poems. “Plume encourages international submissions. However, authors submitting work in languages other than French, Italian, Spanish, or German should provide their own translations along with the translator’s name for each piece.” They also accept poetry collections, chapbooks, verse translations, and studies on poetics released in the last 12 months for review by their staff; please note, they do not accept unsolicited book reviews. Their next submission period for poetry is 15th to 30th May 2025. Their Submittable will open for poetry submissions then. Details here.
Poetry Magazine
This prestigious magazine, run by the Poetry Foundation, publishes poetry of various stripes and poetry-related prose. They have detailed guidelines for each section, and pay $10/line for text poems, $400-600 for visual and video poems, and $250/page for poetry-related prose. They close for submissions from June 15 to September 15 annually. Details here and here.
Cumberland River Review
This is a quarterly online publication of new poetry, fiction, essays, and art. The journal is produced by the department of English at Trevecca Nazarene University, in Nashville, Tennessee. Send 3-5 poems. The deadline is 30 April 2025. Details here and here.
Eye to the Telescope
This magazine publishes themed speculative poetry; currently, they want submissions on the Birds theme. They also accept translations. Send up to 3 poems. Pay is $0.04/word (up to $25). The deadline is 15 June 2025. Submission is via a form on their website. Details here.
The Lyric Magazine
Their website says, “Founded in 1921, The Lyric is the oldest magazine in North America in continuous publication devoted to traditional poetry.” And, “We use rhymed verse in traditional forms, for the most part, with an occasional piece of blank or free verse. Forty or so lines is our usual limit.” For general submissions, poems have to be mailed. Contributors receive a copy, and are eligible for quarterly and annual prizes. Details here.
The Paris Review
This prestigious journal is reading poetry through April; send up to 6 poems. They also accept translations. While their quota for Submittable has been reached, you can still submit via post; submissions postmarked till end-April will be read. The Paris Review accepts prose submissions (fiction and nonfiction) in February, June, and October and poetry submissions in January, April, July, and October. They pay. Details here and here.
Autumn Moon Haiku Journal
Each haiku should ideally be structured in three horizontal lines, though one line horizontal haiku and other forms will be considered.Submit up to 2 haiku. They have a detailed list of preferences on their guidelines page (including work that does not use the 5-7-5 syllable structure). The deadline is 1 May 2025 for the Spring/Summer issue. Details here.
The National Poetry Review
This poetry journal used to be published in print earlier, now it is published online annually. Their About page says, “Distinction, innovation, and linguistic joie de vivre are important to TNPR. We agree with Frost about delight and wisdom. We believe in the value of rich sound and look for poems that stay with the reader long after they’re read. We seek to enchant.” The deadline is 1 May 2025. Details here and here.
Neologism Poetry Journal
“A wide variety of poetics works here, and you’ll have the most success submitting poems that can do these three things well:
Feel good leaving the mouth; Use original or interesting language skillfully; and Use visual spacing, narrative pacing, consistent meter, or any combination of these to make the reading capture the reader.
Formal poetry is welcome, as is writing with tinges of the dreamlike or unreal.” Send up to 5 poems. Details here.
Poetry London
They publish contemporary poetry; send up to 6 poems. They also accept translations; “We are particularly keen to read poems in translation, especially translations from endangered languages.” And, “We pay poets £30 per poem, though appropriate adjustments may be made for very long poems. Review and interview fees are agreed in advance with the Reviews Editor and benchmarked at £50 per 1,000 words.” Currently, they’re open for a fee-based contest via Submittable, but they’re accepting fee-free postal submissions. Details here and here.
Iterant
This poetry magazine accepts up to 8 poems. They pay $50 per poet. Details here.
Whiptail
They used to publish only single-line poetry. However, “Beginning in 2025, we will be moving to a mixed-genre format to include single-line poems, concrete poems, sequences, multi-ku, text hybrids (haibun, tanka prose, and other mixed genres), visual hybrids (haiga, shahai, vispo, etc.), and visual art.” Their next submission period is 1st to 7th May 2025. Do not send work outside the reading period. Details here.
tsuri-dōrō – a small journal of haiku and senryū
Send up to 5 haiku/senryū; they also accept haiga or art for consideration as the issue endpiece, and photography or art for consideration as the issue sidebar. Their next reading period is 1st to 10th May 2025. Please send your work only during the reading period. Details here.
Heron Tree
They are reading submissions for their 12th issue. For this issue, they want found poems composed from sources published in or before 1929, and also found poems (still created from sources published in or before 1929) that incorporate 12 in some way. Also see their editors’ preferences here. Send up to 5 poems. Please note, their guidelines page also says their guidelines are subject to change. The deadline is 15th May 2025. Details here.
The Cortland Review
This poetry journal opened for submissions and translations mid-April. Submit up to 5 poems. You can read about the journal here. The deadline is 15 May 2025. Details here.
Last Stanza Poetry Journal
They want poetry on the Conversations theme. “Conversations, painful or joyful discussions, debates, gossip, pillow talks, or conversations you’ve always wished you could have had.” And, a single $100 award will be given for an outstanding poem. Poems can be any style; they prefer non-rhyming. Send up to 3 poems. The deadline is 30 June 2025. Details here.
Blue Unicorn
This is a long-running print poetry magazine; you can read about them here. Their guidelines say, “BU is known for welcoming formal verse, and this welcome continues. We’re impressed by poems that read as though the poet had simply thought in the form, without forced rhymes, weak words inserted to satisfy the meter, and the like. Every formal writer knows how much effort goes into seeming effortlessness.
But we look for no lesser effort in non-formal verse. We’re alert for the original metaphorical image that may take a moment to prove itself just right; the unexpected word that says more than the familiar one; the sharply observed detail that brings a thing alive. We do not tolerate clichés.
We do tolerate a bit of mystery. We don’t share the widespread allergy toward poems that require rereading or resist paraphrase: al dente poems, you might call them. Given a choice, we’ll take the puzzling piece over the flat one. The uneven poem with a few resonant lines may edge out a smoother but more conventional one.” They pay. Details here.
Poetrybay
“Poetrybay seeks fine poetry, reviews, commentary and essays without restriction in form or content”. Details here.
The Cincinnati Review
They take submissions for the print magazine thrice yearly, of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry – in May, September, and December. Submissions open at the beginning of these months, and close when the submission cap is reached. Those who have disabilities or are incarcerated can submit through the postal service. See the editor preferences here. Submissions for their miCRo series are usually open on an ongoing basis, with some exceptions (they’re closed now, and will reopen 1st May). This is their weekly online flash feature; fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid. Send up to 32 lines or poetry for miCRo, and up to 5 poems for the print magazine. Rates are $25 for miCRo, and $25/page for prose and $30/page for poetry for the print magazine. Their submission portal will open during the reading period. Details here and here.
The Other Side of Hope: Journeys in Refugee and Immigrant Literature
They publish poetry, fiction, and art from refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants only; these are unthemed. They also consider poems from refugee/asylum seeker writing groups. Nonfiction is open to all, and the theme for those is migration. Payment for writing is £50-200, and £50-300 for art, contingent on funding (see guidelines). The deadline is 30 April 2025. Details here and here.
boats against the current
This magazine highlights the voices of women, LGBTQ writers, and poets from underrepresented backgrounds. “we are now accepting poetry submissions which will be published online on our website in 2025. additionally, we are open for chapbooks submissions which will be published in print during 2025.” They’ll update the website later for their print issue guidelines. Details here.
The Stinging Fly
They’ll open for fiction and poetry submissions for a special climate crisis themed issue from 1st to 15th May 2025. Do not send nonfiction. For poetry, they pay €45 per magazine page, but with a minimum payment of €70 per poem; for prose, they pay €45 per page up to €1,200. Their submission portal will open during the reading period. Details here.
Plainsongs Poetry Journal
This is a journal of Corpus Callosum Press. “Successful contributors receive a complimentary digital edition of the issue in which their poem appears. Three poems are chosen from submissions to each issue and honored as award poems with short essays by the members of our Readers Board. Award poets receive small monetary sums, currently $50, as well as a complimentary print edition of the issue.” Send up to 6 poems. Submission is via a form on their website. The deadline is 15 May 2025. Details here and here.
Ballast
“We love poetry’s excesses long poems; concrete & verbivocovisual poems; poetry in translation; book reviews & critical essays; lyricism & rejections of the lyric; more & more & more &”. Send 3-5 poems. They also accept translations. They read poetry submissions year-round. Details here.
password: very short poetry
They have detailed guidelines, including, “I want to see very short (no more than about 25 syllables) poems that only you could have written. … Qualities that attract me in very short poetry: concrete imagery, disjunction, surprise, innovation, juxtaposition of unlike images, surrealism, concrete and visual poetry.“ They also accept translations, and queries for essays. Details here.
Rattle
Rattle accepts various kinds of fee-free poetry, including for print and online issues. They also accept Rattlecast Prompt Poems; work for their Poets Respond feature, where poets respond to a news story or an event that happened the previous week; general poems – send up to 4, and a monthly ekphrastic challenge. Currently, they’re also open for a fee-based contest. For their next print edition, the theme is Tribute to Rebels; see the relevant section on this page. They pay $100 for poems published online, and $200 for poems published in print. Details here.
Trollbreath Magazine
Trollbreath Magazine is open to poetry of any length that falls within the bounds of speculative fiction; send up to 3 poems. They also accept speculative fiction and nonfiction. Pay is $25/poem, $40 for nonfiction, and $0.04/word for fiction. The deadline is 30 April 2025. Poetry submission is via a form on their website. Details here.
Five Fleas
They want 1 to 10 of “your itchiest poetry”, of up to 10 lines each. Details here.
Matter Press: The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
They read fiction, including fictional prose poems, and creative nonfiction, including creative nonfiction prose poetry – they want work that is compressed in some way. Submit works up to 600 words. They pay $50. The deadline is 15 June 2025. Details here and here.
fourteen poems
They only publish LGBTQ+ poets; they usually publish thrice a year, and occasionally have special calls. Send up to 5 poems. They pay £30/poem. The deadline is 16 May 2025. Details here.
Only Poems
They have certain fee-free sections, and certain submissions have a submission fee. They have a Poem of the Month feature, where poets have to respond to a prompt on their website during the first 7 days of the month. They have a Poet of the Week feature, for which you can submit up to 10 pages of poetry; they charge for submissions for this feature but have two annual fee-free reading periods for Poet of the Week (the upcoming one is 1st to 15th July 2025). They also accept book reviews of hybrid collections or poetry collections (up to 1,000 words for a review). They pay $22 to $77. Details here and here.
Small Harbor Publishing: Harbor Review
This is a magazine of poetry and art; they want submissions on the (Sub)liminal theme. Send up to 3 poems. Please note, “All honorarium payments to contributors and prize winners will be paid through PayPal. Sorry, no exceptions.” They pay $10/poem, and the deadline is 30 April 2025. Details here and here.
(And, the press also offers fee-free submissions to BIPOC writers and previous finalists for their Harbor Editions – 2025 Hybrid Chapbook Reading Period; the deadline is end-May; see the relevant category in Submittable for details.)
Bio: S. Kalekar is the pseudonym of a regular contributor to this magazine. She can be reached here.
