Smart Search List of the Day Experimental Poetry Smart Search is one of several search options for our members. It enables you to search for publishers and agents using the most common options and provides a short list of results that's curated and updated daily. This helps you find that gold nugget in the stream with as little effort as possible. Although you aren't a member yet, we are giving you a free preview of our Smart Search below. Read our Guide to Smart Search for more information about this feature.Note: These are the results of a previous Smart Search List of the Day. Today's Smart Search is Essays. Instructions: Select at least one bolded (asterisk) option below and click Search. To include some lesser-known publishers, select "Include Wildcards." Piece: Clear Poetry Form:* Any Poetry Form Ballad Beat poetry Blank verse Cinquain Dramatic verse Experimental poetry Formal verse Free verse Ghazal Haiku (or related) Hybrid form Invented/Nonce form Light verse Limerick Long poetry Lyric poetry Metrical Narrative poetry Pantoum Persona poetry Prose poetry Rhyming Rondeau Sestina Short poetry Sonnet Tanka Villanelle Visual poetry Other form Topic:* Include Scholarly publications Genre:* Any Genre General Action-Adventure Erotica Fantasy Horror Mystery/Crime Romance Science Fiction Suspense/Thriller Western Style:* Any Style Absurdist Dark Experimental Humorous Literary Mainstream Minimalist Pulp Quirky Realist Satirical Surrealist Transgressive Medium:* Length Type:* Any Length Type Poem Poetry Chapbook Poetry Collection Include literary agents as well as publishers Max. Results: 10 20 30 40 50 Fees: Include Fee-Based Submissions Pay: Paying Projects Only Include 'Unknown' Payscale Refinements: Include Wildcards Wildcards are listings that are lesser-known and don't have enough data yet for complete statistics. Exact Matches Only Sort By: Acceptance Pct (high to low) Acceptance Pct (low to high) Avg Response Time (low to high) Number of Submitters (reporting to Duotrope) Title Today's Smart Search List of the Day is: Experimental Poetry. Check back tomorrow for a new list.Color Coding: Purple indicates a Wildcard, Green indicates a paying publication, and Blue is everything else. Baltimore Review The Baltimore Review was founded by Barbara Westwood Diehl in 1996 as a literary journal publishing short stories and poems, with a mission to showcase the best writing from the Baltimore area and beyond. Our mission remains just that. However, in our online format, we can now bring that fine writing to the world's attention, more frequently, and at less cost. We can also explore new ways to bring the world of writers and writing to the reader's attention.Genres: General.Lengths: Poem.Payment: Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $50.Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 114.2 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 2.5% of poetry submissions accepted. Dazed Santa Fees Dazed Santa is an online poetry & art space.Genres: General.Lengths: Poem.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 33.9 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry. Driftwood Press Editors' Pick Poetry Collection Award Fees Driftwood Press is excited to announce that we are accepting full-length book submissions for our Editors’ Pick Poetry Prize. One or more full-length poetry collections will be chosen by our Managing Poetry Editor.Genres: General.Lengths: Poetry Collection.Winner's Prize: + Semi-pro advance. >=15% royalties. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $500 and 20% royalties.Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 131.8 days.Acceptances: Average. 3.0% of poetry submissions accepted. Grist Fees Founded in 2007 by graduate students in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Tennessee, Grist is a nationally distributed journal of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, interviews, and craft essays. Published annually every spring, each issue is accompanied by Grist Online, which features some of the best work we’ve received during our reading period…Genres: General.Lengths: Poem.Payment: Semi-pro. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $10 per poem.Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 143.0 days.Acceptances: Average. 8.6% of poetry submissions accepted. Merion West Merion West was founded in 2016 to bring a new and independent voice to the media landscape, which its founders believed had become too polarizing, sensationalist, and lacking in depth. Merion West is nonpartisan and publishes critical commentary, reflective essays, and in-depth interviews from across the political spectrum and from around the globe. It focuses on highlighting timeless topics, as well as issues affecting the daily lives of many people that are underreported…Genres: General.Lengths: Poem.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 22.9 days.Acceptances: Average. 10.0% of poetry submissions accepted. New Ohio Review Fees New Ohio Review is a national literary journal produced by Ohio University’s Creative Writing Program. NOR has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and support from the Ohio Arts Council. Work from its pages consistently appears in the Best American series and the annual Pushcart anthology.Genres: General.Lengths: Poem.Payment: Unknown.Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 117.6 days.Acceptances: Average. 9.8% of poetry submissions accepted. Ninth Letter Ninth Letter is the award-winning literary arts journal edited and produced by the Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The journal’s mission is to present original literary writing of exceptional quality, illuminated by cutting-edge graphic design…Genres: General.Lengths: Poem.Payment: Semi-pro. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $25 per poem.Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 138.5 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 0.6% of poetry submissions accepted. Oddball Magazine Wildcard Oddball Magazine started out as a street zine over 20 years ago. In 2010, I brought Oddball Magazine online. Since then, we have been one of the most active online lit magazines in the poetry scene. We have grown a diverse, killer community of poets, artists, and some of the best contributors I could ever ask for. We are an eclectic bunch. We have weekly poetry, art, comic strips, book reviews, music reviews, and an open place for originality. We provide a canvas. Our community paints it.Genres: General.Lengths: Poem.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 126.0 days. Posit Posit publishes a stimulating, dynamic selection of the finest new poetry, prose and visual art — accomplished, sophisticated work that may be eclectic in style but is always innovative, challenging, and aesthetically broadening. We believe in de-Balkanizing the literary and visual arts scenes by providing an aesthetically beautiful showcase for carefully curated, highly innovative work that is not circumscribed by affiliation with any specific aesthetic or artistic movement…Genres: General.Lengths: Poem.Payment: No monetary payment.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 36.9 days.Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry. Ruminous Fees Ruminous is a dual online/print publication of new formalist and experimental poetry which welcomes all authors, ...and especially those who can bring us what we want: We want poems transcribed in the stillness of nature and thought, where reality has yet to take shape. We want the strange and arcane truths divulged in dreams. We want your wonder and your fear. And we want to embrace the terror and fragility of an infinite universe, looking back at itself.Genres: General, Fantasy, Horror.Lengths: Poem.Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $20 per poem.Avg. 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