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7th-Circle Pyrite is a celebration of all that transcends the physical or mundane. Spirituality and religion, paranormality, magic, horror, occultism, and the macabre all have a home here. The 7th Circle of Hell as represented in Dante's Inferno is reserved for those who have committed acts of violence. In the world we live in—where violence runs rampant—sometimes we may feel Hell is already here...
Genres: G F H General, Fantasy, Horror.
Lengths: P Poem.
Payment: NNo monetary payment No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: 2.6 days.
Acceptances: 5.6% of poetry submissions accepted.

Stories in the Chord of Am For poetry, we lean toward the lyrical, eccentric, ambivalent and wildly imaginative.
Genres: G General.
Lengths: P Poem.
Payment: NNo monetary payment No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: 28.7 days.
Acceptances: 6.1% of poetry submissions accepted.

Seeking the wonderful and the bizarre, the beautiful and dark… Crow & Cross Keys is a new, online literary journal that plucks fiction and poetry from skeletal trees and gives it a place to take root. We love writing that sings: strong, unexpected imagery; lyrical prose; and an afterimage that lasts long after the lights go out. Crow & Cross Keys seeks to be a haven for all things speculative. Give us your fairy tales and your fables, sneak a scary story under the mat...
Genres: F H S Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: P Poem.
Payment: NNo monetary payment No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: 67.3 days.
Acceptances: 20.0% of poetry submissions accepted.

The Jersey Devil is a creature of legend, lurking in the shadows of the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey, revealing itself only to wreak havoc on some small town, snack on some poor, unsuspecting chicken or goat, and, occasionally, if it’s feeling a little randy, to hit on mermaids down the Jersey shore...
Genres: O G F H S Open to all/most Genres, including General, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: P Poem.
Payment: NNo monetary payment No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: 40.3 days.
Acceptances: None reported yet in poetry.

The Los Angeles Review, established in 2003, is the voice of Los Angeles, and the voice of the nation. With its multitude of cultures, Los Angeles roils at the center of the cauldron of divergent literature emerging from the West Coast. Perhaps from this place something can emerge that speaks to the writer or singer or dancer or wild person in all of us, something disturbing, something alive, something of the possibility of what it could be to be human in the 21st century...
Genres: G General.
Lengths: P Poem.
Payment: NNo monetary payment (Provides free copy/copies) No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: 119.4 days.
Acceptances: None reported yet in poetry.

A body is the most genuine thing we have. A body can burst forth into a magic-realist galaxy. A body can be a source of pleasure. Pain can be a muse. Where does psychic pain end and visceral pain begin? When I say sensuality, does that connote pain or pleasure? Writing the body is writing what we know because we inhabit it. Or you might write your lover's body so you can keep it with you...
Genres: G General.
Lengths: P Poem.
Payment: NNo monetary payment No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: 80.2 days.
Acceptances: 32.6% of poetry submissions accepted.