Experimental Poetry

Since 1990, the American Literary Review has been published through the Department of English at the University of North Texas. We feature poems, stories, essays, reviews, and interviews that reflect the diverse tradition of writers living in the United States and abroad. Our aim is to expand the notion of publishing literature that is American. We welcome work that speaks to American place, culture, history, and future, among other subjects…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 135.8 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

Bending Genres is committed to publishing the best fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction, and microreviews from dedicated writers. We want POETRY that is unusual, experimental, terrifying, delightful, stultifying, rare, deep, whooshes out, magnanimous and secretive.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 4.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.8% of poetry submissions accepted.

The Gravity of the Thing is an independent publisher of defamiliarized creative writing. Our features have been anthologized in Best Small Fictions, noted in the Best American series, and finalists in the Shirley Jackson Awards, and we are the grateful recipient of grant funding from Oregon’s Regional Arts & Culture Council. Our ongoing goal is to publish work that defamiliarizes storytelling, writing that stranges in pursuit of a renewed sense of discovery.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 80.3 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 15.4% of poetry submissions accepted.

Meridian is a literary journal produced at the University of Virginia in conjunction with the university’s M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing, whose students serve as the magazine’s editors. Founded in 1998, Meridian has featured the works of numerous Pulitzer Prize Winners, National Book Award Winners, and established writers including Charles Wright, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Seamus Heaney, Ann Beattie, John Casey, George Garrett, Heather McHugh, Richard Bausch, Bonnie Jo Campbell,…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 121.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.4% of poetry submissions accepted.

Midway Journal accepts submissions of aesthetically ambitious work that occupies the realms between both the traditional and experimental.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 24.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.9% of poetry submissions accepted.

Spellbinder is a literary and art magazine founded in 2020 by members of the Durham University Creative Writing Society. Now led by Co-Editors-in-Chief Effy Kousteni and Tatianna Kalb, the magazine champions experimental, original, and boundary-pushing work. While the editorial team is especially committed to supporting writers and artists at the beginning of their creative careers, submissions from previously published and exhibited contributors are also welcomed…
Genres: Open to all/most genres.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 34.1 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 16.7% of poetry submissions accepted.