Paying Fee-Free General Literary Poems

The epigraph stamped on The Baffler no. 1, from Arthur Rimbaud’s “Morning of Drunkenness,” introduced it as a punk literary magazine. It was the summer of 1988. The founders, Thomas Frank and Keith White, were recent graduates of the University of Virginia. They named their magazine as a joke on academic fads like undecidability, then in fashion…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Unknown.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 361.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.9% of poetry submissions accepted.

Founded online in 2004, Guernica is an award-winning 501(c)3 non-profit magazine focused on the intersection of arts and politics. A home for incisive ideas and necessary questions, we publish memoir, reporting, interviews, commentary, poetry, fiction, and multimedia journalism exploring identity, conflict, culture, justice, science, and beyond…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Unknown.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 138.2 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.7% of poetry submissions accepted.

A magazine of poised prose, precarious poetry, and photography to pilot our own realms again.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $5.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 3.2 days.
Acceptances: Average. 7.7% of poetry submissions accepted.

Josephine Quarterly was founded in 2012 by poets Komal Patel Mathew and Jenny Sadre-Orafai in Atlanta. The editors are interested in work from both established and new voices. Our tastes tend to run wild from Mary Ruefle to Aimee Nezhukumatathli and Donika Kelly to Lucille Clifton to Louise Glück. A good poem is a good poem. We know what we want when we see it.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $30.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 51.9 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.6% of poetry submissions accepted.

Okay Donkey is a literary magazine that likes to read the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. We like work that’s funny, that’s sad, and that’s both funny and sad. We especially enjoy the experimental, the surreal, the magical realist, and the genre-bending.
Genres:   Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $25 per poem.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 41.0 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

Pinhole Poetry is a digital poetry journal and chapbook press that loves the upside-down view and the fact that some art only happens in the dark. Our goal is to create a space for poets, artists and readers that unveils a world where time slows down and perspectives shift. We aim to be the pinprick of light for your poetry and feature work from emerging poets, established poets, and poets publishing their work for the first time.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Token. Details: CAD $5 honorarium.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 29.3 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 19.2% of poetry submissions accepted.

For more than 110 years, Poetry magazine has been a monthly gathering space for poets and readers. The magazine publishes contemporary poetry and prose, primarily in English, and translations from contributors all over the world. Poetry has been published in Chicago since its founding in 1912.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $10 per line for text poems, with a min. of $300; $400 for visual poems; $600 for video poems.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 290.2 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.4% of poetry submissions accepted.

There's a long tradition of poetry responding to art (and vice versa), and we thought it would be fun to post these challenges. Every month we will post an image on our Ekphrastic Challenge page. Poets will then have one month to write a poem in response to that specific image.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: USD $100.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 25.9 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.1% of poetry submissions accepted.

The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of all kinds. Our mostly volunteer-run magazine strives to be a platform for risk-taking voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere. We lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers our readers may already know and love. We want to bring new perspectives into the conversation that will make us all look deeper.
Genres:   General, Horror.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $200.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 69.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.7% of poetry submissions accepted.