Smart Search List of the Day Fee-Free Experimental Poetry

Always Crashing is a magazine of fiction, poetry, and nameless things around and in-between. We publish one print issue per year and feature online content year-round. We are headquartered in Chicago and Durham, NC.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 41.0 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

Founded in 2004, Bat City Review is a literary journal and community devoted to supporting emerging and established writers and artists. Dedicated to diversity of form, thought, and voice we publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art crafted with passion and precision—work that expands our imaginations and complicates our conversations; work willing to take risks, surprise, experiment, and play…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 131.0 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

Clockhouse is a national literary journal published annually by Clockhouse Writers' Conference, whose editors are MFA alumni of Goddard College. Clockhouse features poetry, prose and creative nonfiction from established and emerging writers around the world. All poetry in traditional and experimental styles.
Genres:   Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 101.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.3% of poetry submissions accepted.

Dog Throat Journal is a publication of flash fiction, and micro fiction. We look for odd time thought provoking works from the edges of artistic expression. Dog Throat Journal looks for unusual, thought provoking flash fiction and micro fiction. We want your non-realist, non-normal, risk-taking, odd, offbeat, eccentric, unconventional, experimental, beautiful poetic prose…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 14.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.3% of poetry submissions accepted.

The Inflectionist Review is a small press publishing stark and distinctive contemporary poetry that fosters dialog between the reader and writer, between words and their meanings, between ambiguity and concept. Each issue gathers established and emerging voices together toward the shared aim of unique expression that resonates beyond the author’s world, beyond the page, and speaks to the universality of human language and experience…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 5.3 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 20.2% of poetry submissions accepted.

Maudlin House is a bridge between new form fiction and experimental lit that takes on mainstream pop culture through the lens of 21st-century indie art. Over the past 6 years, the Chicago-based small press has gained a devoted readership from all over the world for its weird lit, passion, and personality with regards to its publication of groundbreaking novels, short story collections, and online publications. It’s a voice for known and upcoming writers alike to boost lit in every way possible.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 14.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.9% of poetry submissions accepted.