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Poems

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Angel Food Magazine

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Angel Food is an online literary project. We aim to publish writing that would nourish and sustain the angels living among us.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 64.1 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

The Baffler

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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. 399.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.3% of poetry submissions accepted.

dogyard mag  Wildcard

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dogyard is an online literary journal that prioritizes you and your wild side. Inspired by those ruff writers that came before us, we want accessible, quick reads that everyone can sink their canines into. The dogyard is grass-roots, full of love, and just looking to meet you wherever you are. In this anti-intellectual age, these dogs are ready to bite back. Over in this yard, we're all friends—all dogs in a pound just waiting for you to either adopt or read us…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 43.0 days.

Innisfree Poetry Journal

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Innisfree Poetry Journal welcomes submissions of original, previously unpublished poems. We accept poems for consideration from both established writers and new writers whose work is excellent. We publish well-crafted poems, whether in free verse or in traditional forms, poems grounded in the specific, which speak in fresh language and telling images. And we admire musicality: we welcome those who, like the late Lorenzo Thomas, “write poems because I can’t sing.”
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 14.1 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 11.9% of poetry submissions accepted.

Instant Noodles

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VISION: To expand the opportunities available to authors by providing a digital platform to showcase short works of fiction/flash fiction, memoir, creative non-fiction, visual art, media art, and poetry. MISSION: To support creators in their publishing journey, whether they are new established by offering a quality place to be published that is free to submit to and free to read/view.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 50.2 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 47.3% of poetry submissions accepted.

Mobius

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Established in 1989 as a quarterly print journal with local free distribution in Madison, Wisconsin, Mobius strives to publish challenging fiction and poetry that deals with social change as either a primary or a secondary theme. We've been asked many times what we mean when we say "social change," and we've never really been able to provide a satisfactory answer. To paraphrase Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, we know a Mobius story or poem when we see one…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 37.1 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 19.1% of poetry submissions accepted.

The Offing

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The Offing is an online literary magazine publishing creative writing in all genres and art in all media. The Offing publishes work that challenges, experiments, provokes — work that pushes literary and artistic forms and conventions. The Offing is a place for new and emerging writers to test their voices, and for established writers to test their limits…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $25-$100.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 81.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.7% of poetry submissions accepted.

ONE ART

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ONE ART is a home for good poems. We aim to publish poetry that adds value to the life of our readers. We hope to offer, sustain, and nourish a kind, inviting, and thoughtful community.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 1.8 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 13.1% of poetry submissions accepted.

ONLY POEMS Poet of the Week

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ONLY POEMS was founded by two poets. There are so many ways to delight in poetry. We are a bit obsessive — when we like a poem, we immediately want to see more of the poet’s work. Most literary magazines we love follow a poem-a-day model, focusing on the singular poetic spark. We invite poets to lay before us a small galaxy — show us the blackholes and supernovas, the many moons and solar flares of their work…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $77 per set of poems.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 36.2 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

Ruminous  Fees

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Ruminous is a dual online/print publication of new formalist and experimental poetry which welcomes all authors, ...and especially those who can bring us what we want: We want poems transcribed in the stillness of nature and thought, where reality has yet to take shape. We want the strange and arcane truths divulged in dreams. We want your wonder and your fear. And we want to embrace the terror and fragility of an infinite universe, looking back at itself.
Genres:    General, Fantasy, Horror.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $20 per poem.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 1.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.6% of poetry submissions accepted.

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