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Smart Search List of the Day

Experimental Poetry

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Antiphony Journal

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Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 1.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.8% of poetry submissions accepted.

Bending Genres

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Bending Genres is committed to publishing the best fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction, and microreviews from dedicated writers. We want POETRY that is unusual, experimental, terrifying, delightful, stultifying, rare, deep, whooshes out, magnanimous and secretive.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 4.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.8% of poetry submissions accepted.

diode poetry journal

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Diode Poetry Journal is looking for poetry that excites and energizes, and that uses language that crackles and sparks. Representative poets are Bob Hicok, Paul Guest, Dorianne Laux, sam sax, Rae Armantrout, Mathias Svalina, Kaveh Akbar, Catherine Pierce, Allison Titus, Franz Wright, Tarfia Faizullah, T R Hummer, Bin Ramke, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Andrea Cohen, and Vandana Khanna.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 15.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.8% of poetry submissions accepted.

Fugue Literary Journal

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Established in 1990 at the University of Idaho, Fugue publishes poetry, fiction, essays, hybrid work, and visual art from established and emerging writers and artists. Fugue is managed and edited entirely by University of Idaho graduate students, with help from graduate and undergraduate readers. We take pride in the work we print, writers we publish, and the presentation of each issue.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 157.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.9% of poetry submissions accepted.

The Garlic Press

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The Garlic Press is an online literary magazine for extra pungent poetry and prose—by which we mean vivid, mean sticky and raw, mean flavorful, biting, sharp-edged. We’re looking for work that stings us awake and leaves us revitalized, fortified against the viruses of apathy and inattention; work that burns and heals us simultaneously, like the whole, butter-white clove your mother might urge you to inhale to scorch away a sore throat…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 46.7 days.
Acceptances: Average. 10.0% of poetry submissions accepted.

Merion West

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Merion West was founded in 2016 to bring a new and independent voice to the media landscape, which its founders believed had become too polarizing, sensationalist, and lacking in depth. Merion West is nonpartisan and publishes critical commentary, reflective essays, and in-depth interviews from across the political spectrum and from around the globe. It focuses on highlighting timeless topics, as well as issues affecting the daily lives of many people that are underreported…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 34.1 days.
Acceptances: Average. 9.9% of poetry submissions accepted.

Misophist Magazine  Wildcard

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We are trying, by no means, to be anti-intellectuals. We like intellectuals who do love with their keenness. Like, for instance, Einstein. Now wisdom is different from intelligence. Wisdom is about judgment, having experience, the quality of someone with depth, and, now, isn’t that just something you want? It’ll definitely make it easier to sell whatever you’re peddling, if you come across that way, your muscle powders and enlightenment solutions, your perfect sex-segregated world, your…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 47.7 days.

Ninth Letter

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Ninth Letter is the award-winning literary arts journal edited and produced by the Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The journal’s mission is to present original literary writing of exceptional quality, illuminated by cutting-edge graphic design…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Semi-pro. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $25 per poem.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 136.7 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 0.6% of poetry submissions accepted.

Poetry Online

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Poetry Online, also stylized as poetry.onl, is a poetry journal and publisher committed to publishing accessible work and compensating our contributors fairly. We offer an online venue to share poems alongside audio, captioned video, and screenreader-accessible images, so every reader is included. In 2022, work from our journal was included in the Best of the Net anthology. Poetry Online nominates contributors for inclusion in major anthologies.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $60.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 2.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.0% of poetry submissions accepted.

Three Line Poetry

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Three Line Poetry is a journal devoted to the art of the compressed image — poems that arrive complete in three lines, that hold their breath and say everything in the space of a moment. We draw on the tradition of the haiku and the senryū, of Bashō and Issa and Buson, and we carry that spirit into the present: contemporary voices, global perspectives, the full weight of human experience in the fewest possible words. We believe the short poem is not a lesser poem. It is a harder one…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $1.50 standard payment per poem; $10 for Editor's Choice selections.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 15.5 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 50.0% of poetry submissions accepted.

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