Fee-Free Experimental Poetry

Clockhouse is a national literary journal published annually by Clockhouse Writers' Conference, whose editors are MFA alumni of Goddard College. Clockhouse features poetry, prose and creative nonfiction from established and emerging writers around the world. All poetry in traditional and experimental styles.
Genres:   Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 101.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.3% of poetry submissions accepted.

DIAGRAM is an electronic journal of text and art. As our name indicates, we're interested in representations. In naming. In indicating. In schematics. In the labelling and taxonomy of things. In poems that masquerade as stories; in stories that disguise themselves as indices or obituaries. WE VALUE the insides of things, vivisection, urgency, risk, elegance, flamboyance, work that moves us, language that does something new, or does something old--well. We like iteration and reiteration…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 208.2 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.4% of poetry submissions accepted.

HOOT is a postcard. A very nice-looking one. With writing on it! It is also a little more complicated than that. It is also: a brief, displayable, shareable literary magazine. The idea is: to have stories and poems on a postcard, so that they can be displayed and shared easily. Stick it on the fridge! Tuck it in your husband’s/wife’s briefcase or nephew’s bookbag! for people to have a literary magazine that they can both afford to subscribe to and have time to read…
Genres:     Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Unknown.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 87.2 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.3% of poetry submissions accepted.

January House is a meeting place for diverse expressions, urgent conversations, and the ever-evolving landscapes of contemporary literature and art. We invite you to join us in shaping a publication that honors both craft and curiosity, rooted in a belief that storytelling, in all its forms, matters.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 3.4 days.
Acceptances: Average. 10.0% of poetry submissions accepted.

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.

Star 82 Review is an art and literature, online and print magazine that highlights words and images in gemlike forms. Each issue features flash fiction, creative nonfiction, erasure texts, narrative art, postcard lit and poetic storytelling featuring subtle humor, humility and humanity, the strange and the familiar, and a home for the displaced person. Star 82 is the code needed to unblock one's phone number. Tell us who you are. Someone will answer.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 4.6 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 14.3% of poetry submissions accepted.