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Smart Search List of the Day

Experimental Poems

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Colorado Review

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Launched in 1956 (with the first issue featuring work by Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, E. E. Cummings, Henry Miller, Bertolt Brecht, and Mark van Doren), Colorado Review is a national literary journal featuring contemporary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and book reviews. Each issue is approximately 200 pages…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $100.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 48.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.3% of poetry submissions accepted.

Cordite Poetry Review

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Cordite Poetry Review [is] an Australian and international journal of poetry review and criticism.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: to Pays occasionally, up to Semi-pro. Details: Payment to Australian citizens or permanent residents only.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 49.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.4% of poetry submissions accepted.

Horrific Scribes  Mature

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Horrific Scribes is an expanding online archive of dark short fiction (and some poetry) by various authors who share the Horrific Scribblings imprint’s dedication to the provocative, scary, and strange. Most of the stories will have elements of horror, ranging from bloodless slow burns to raucous extreme romps, but related genres–dark fantasy, dark sci-fi, surrealist and other experimental writing with dark tendencies–are likely to appear…
Genres:    Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $25 per accepted submission.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 9.5 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 13.3% of poetry submissions accepted.

Meridian

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Meridian is a literary journal produced at the University of Virginia in conjunction with the university’s M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing, whose students serve as the magazine’s editors. Founded in 1998, Meridian has featured the works of numerous Pulitzer Prize Winners, National Book Award Winners, and established writers including Charles Wright, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Seamus Heaney, Ann Beattie, John Casey, George Garrett, Heather McHugh, Richard Bausch, Bonnie Jo Campbell,…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 120.5 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.4% of poetry submissions accepted.

Midway Journal

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Midway Journal accepts submissions of aesthetically ambitious work that occupies the realms between both the traditional and experimental.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 24.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.9% of poetry submissions accepted.

Nimrod International Journal of Prose & Poetry

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Since its founding in 1956 at The University of Tulsa, Nimrod has shared with its readers exciting new writing from around the world. Each issue features a stimulating selection of poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction, including work in translation. Selections from Nimrod have been included in The Best American Short Stories, Best Stories from the South, New Voices in American Fiction, Best New Poets, Best American Poetry, and many other noted anthologies…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $20 per page with a $300 maximum.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 51.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.2% of poetry submissions accepted.

Painted Bride Quarterly

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Painted Bride Quarterly, established in Philadelphia in 1973, is one of the country’s longest running literary magazines. PBQ is a community-based, independent, non-profit literary magazine published quarterly online, making it accessible to a broad and diverse audience.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Unknown.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 112.6 days.
Acceptances: Average. 8.7% of poetry submissions accepted.

Perceptions  Wildcard

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Mt. Hood Community College's magazine of the arts has appeared every year since 1969. The magazine is edited, designed, and published by students at Mt. Hood Community College. Each issue runs 150+ pages and includes photography, visual art, poetry, nonfiction, fiction, short films, and music from local, national, and international contributors.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 38.0 days.

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. 4.7% of poetry submissions accepted.

Space & Time Magazine

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Founded in 1966 by Gordon Linzner, Space & Time is one of the oldest continuously published semi-pro speculative fiction magazines still in print. For nearly six decades, the magazine has championed science fiction, fantasy, horror, poetry, art, and the beautifully strange…
Genres:    Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $5 per poem.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 35.1 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 17.2% of poetry submissions accepted.

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