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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. 114.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.5% of poetry submissions accepted.

Founded in June 2020, The Drift aims to introduce new work and new ideas by young writers who haven’t yet been absorbed into the media hivemind and don’t feel hemmed in by the boundaries of the existing discourse. Our issues, published three times a year, feature longform essays and cultural criticism, short fiction, poetry, interviews, dispatches, and extremely abbreviated reviews.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $150.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 119.8 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

Frontier Poetry began with the simple mission of being a platform for emerging poets—to uplift, to prepare, and to inspire. We are looking for poets and poems that strive to place themselves at the edge of what language can do. This does not mean we are only concerned with experimental poetry…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Professional. Details: $50.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 44.5 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 0.8% of poetry submissions accepted.

The Georgia Review is the literary-cultural journal published out of the University of Georgia since 1947. While it began with a regional commitment, its scope has grown to include readers and writers throughout the U.S. and the world, who are brought together through the print journal as well as live programming…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $4 per line, up to $800.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 257.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.6% of poetry submissions accepted.

Grain, the journal of eclectic writing, serves readers and writers by publishing quality literature from Canadian and international writers, and by nurturing the writing of Saskatchewan-based authors. Grain is an award-winning literary quarterly magazine that publishes engaging, challenging, and ground-breaking writing and art. Every issue features superb new writing from both developing and established writers. Each issue also highlights the unique artwork of a different visual artist…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: CAD $50 per page, up to a max. of $250.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 72.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.2% of poetry submissions accepted.

Palette Poetry is an online literary journal that endeavors to uplift and platform emerging and established poets. The world is eager for poets. In 2016, more people spent their hard-earned money on poetry books than in any other year on record. When times are dark, the world often turns to poets for insight and for language reanimated. Palette Poetry is here to paint our small part of the world with truth through poetry, as imaginative, eviscerating, and provoking as truth can be…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $50 per poem, up to $150.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 65.7 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.1% of poetry submissions accepted.

On average, poems in Rattle are published six months to a year after they were submitted. Then they appear online several months after that. Real poetry is timeless, of course, so usually it doesn’t matter—but this is the age of information. News cycles rarely last more than a week, let alone a year…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $100.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 2.9 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.5% of poetry submissions accepted.

The Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize is given to honor exceptional poems that help make real for readers the gravity of the vulnerable state of our environment at present.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: First place receives USD $1,000.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 161.5 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

This contest seeks today's best humor poems. Winning Writers finds and creates quality resources for poets and writers. It was founded by Jendi Reiter and Adam Cohen in 2001. We are located in Western Massachusetts. Winning Writers is devoted to providing the best possible contest experience for writers: generous prizes, transparent judging, a minimum of fussy restrictions, lasting publicity for winners, and speedy, responsive customer service…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: USD $2,000 for first prize.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 217.1 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 6.1% of poetry submissions accepted.