Rise Up Review

Permanently Closed: This project is permanently closed to submissions (September 2025). We provide the following information as an archive.

About

Rise Up Review is a landing site for the language of opposition.
The poems on Rise Up are meant to be disseminated like little manifestos. William Carlos Williams says that "it is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men [and women] die miserably everyday for lack of what is found there."
Poetry has the ability to address injustices and oppression in a manner that is both lyrical and intimate. The best such instances of this power avoid the didactic, because we learn about human evils and frailties, human love and strength, from the stories we tell. Poetry is a hammer is a flame is a flag of dissent is an olive branch. We proffer it to you.
The personal essays on this site bear witness to the effects of policy.

Fees Notice: This project charges fees (or requires purchases) for some submissions. They charge fees for "tip jar" and post-quota submissions.
The fee is USD $3 (average for magazines that charge).

Country of Publication & Year Established

United States

Established in 2016

Publication Medium & Frequency

Electronic Publication Electronic Publication: Unknown publication frequency

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We feature personal essays about one's political life or political essays about one's personal life. We're looking, in particular, for essays that detail the ways that policy or the threat of policy affect an individual in our current climate. We are not looking for repurposed research papers or opinion pieces. Diversity is very important to us as a means of bringing disparate experiences together under one roof with the belief that there are more things that unite us as humans than there are that separate us.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Lengths:

Essay: Up to 2,000 words.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary, Personal.

Topics:

Politics/Political Science.
Society/Culture: General, Current events, Social issues.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Submittable submission manager.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

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Consider that we're not looking for poems that are overly instructive. Moreover, poems that effectively bridge the divide between the lyrical and the narrative are preferable and most likely to be selected. We especially want poems that are accessible enough to be shared even by those who may not have known they needed poetry until they stumbled on your work. The poems we most gravitate towards are those that reveal what's personally at stake for the speaker of the poem. Diversity is very important to us as a means of bringing disparate experiences together under one roof with the belief that there are more things that unite us as humans than there are that separate us.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:

General

Lengths:

Poem: No line limits known; Up to 3 pieces.

Poetry Forms:

Open to all/most Forms, including: Lyric poetry, Narrative poetry, Short poetry.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary.

Topics:

Politics/Political Science.
Society/Culture: General, Social issues.
Other: See guidelines.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Submittable submission manager.
Reprints: Reprints are allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

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Dates

Last Updated: 22 May 2026