General Experimental 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. 4.9% of poetry submissions accepted.

Boundby was founded in 2022 at Warwick University, initially as a collective of poetry students with an aim to create an online zine to promote the writing of young and unpublished poets. Our team have now dispersed across Europe, working and studying in a range of fields, and as such our editorial purview has also broadened. We are a UK-based (and internationally-minded) online poetry magazine publishing the work of new and established poets…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 38.5 days.
Acceptances: Average. 10.0% of poetry submissions accepted.

Cagibi is invested in sharing the universal human experiences to be found in works of prose and poetry set within places unfamiliar to readers; thus, our expressed interest in international—or world—literature, and works in translation. Cagibi is versatile in its purpose and mission to readers and writers. The journal concerns literature in which character conflict, ultimately story, is tied to place. The retreats provide unique and stimulating place experience…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 67.1 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 13.0% of poetry submissions accepted.

Diode Poetry Journal is looking for poetry that excites and energizes, and that uses language that crackles and sparks. Representative poets are Bob Hicok, Paul Guest, Dorianne Laux, sam sax, Rae Armantrout, Mathias Svalina, Kaveh Akbar, Catherine Pierce, Allison Titus, Franz Wright, Tarfia Faizullah, T R Hummer, Bin Ramke, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Andrea Cohen, and Vandana Khanna.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 14.2 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.5% 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. 77.5 days.
Acceptances: Average. 8.3% of poetry submissions accepted.

Painted Bride Quarterly, established in Philadelphia in 1973, is one of the country’s longest running literary magazines. PBQ is a community-based, independent, non-profit literary magazine published quarterly online, making it accessible to a broad and diverse audience.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Unknown.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 126.4 days.
Acceptances: Average. 9.3% of poetry submissions accepted.