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Paying Fee-Free Literary Poetry

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Today's Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Fee-Free Literary Poetry. Check back tomorrow for a new list.
Color Coding: Purple indicates a Wildcard, Green indicates a paying publication, and Blue is everything else.

Glass Poetry Press

Glass Poetry Press is a micro-press in Toledo, Ohio that publishes poetry chapbooks. We also publish the online poetry journal, Glass: A Journal of Poetry. Our chapbooks are hand-bound and side stapled with full-color card stock covers. Each chapbook is assigned an ISBN. Initial print run is 100 copies and each chapbook will be kept in print as long as there is sufficient demand, to be determined by the press…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poetry Chapbook.
Payment: + No advance. >=15% royalties. Free copy(ies). Details: 15% royalties.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 118.3 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

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Guernica

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. 142.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.8% of poetry submissions accepted.

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HALSEY Literary Reader

A semi-regular collection of words and pictures, HALSEY focuses on the art and science of living and what it means to be human. We welcome all kinds of poems and photographs, short essays on craft, and reviews of small press poetry books.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $15.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 6.6 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 19.1% of poetry submissions accepted.

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Ink Nest Poetry

At Ink Nest Poetry, we value passion, transparency, and creativity. We are committed to providing our readers with diverse and relatable content, and we strive to be a trusted space of new and emerging writers as well as well-known others. We believe that great content is a result of hard work, dedication, and a willingness to take risks and try new things.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $20 per set of poems.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 152.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.1% of poetry submissions accepted.

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The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts is a non-profit publisher of compressed creative arts, such as micro fiction, flash fiction, prose poetry, & visual arts, and whatever other forms compression might take. We publish weekly bursts of compression & decompression and make as many varied word-plays on matter as we can.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $50.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 3.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.4% of poetry submissions accepted.

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little somethings press

little somethings press: a collection of small writings aims to highlight the growing wave of micro-literature from flash prose to micropoetry, while navigating the space between literary journals and zines.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Unknown.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 58.1 days.
Acceptances: Average. 7.7% of poetry submissions accepted.

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Magra Books Wildcard

Magra Books is a publisher of unique works by important writers. Magra Books presents writers who are up to the all-encompassing challenge of producing books that strive to make “news that stays news.” Writers who are passionate about language, language that knows no borders…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poetry Collection.
Payment: + Unknown advance. Unknown royalties.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 143.9 days.

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MENACE Magazine Mature

M E N A C E publishes work that encapsulates the dark, the transgressive, and the gross. While not strictly a space for the speculative, M E N A C E seeks the “literary weird”—work that would be rejected from big literary magazines for being too genre…
Genres: General, Fantasy, Horror.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $50.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 7.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.3% of poetry submissions accepted.

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Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge

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: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

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The Spectacle

The first issue of The Spectacle was launched in the fall of 2015, with Kelly Caldwell, Cassie Donish, and Jonathan McGregor at the helm. Twice a year, the magazine publishes issues that include poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art, while The Revue [listed separately] publishes flash prose, short poems, interviews, special features, and other pieces year-round. We aim for content that reminds us that our lenses matter—they focus, distort, clarify, conceal…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $50.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 68.7 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

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