Fee-Free Literary Poetry

Apricity Press is an online publication of poetry, prose, short fiction, visual art and dance works. Embodying the obsolete word it was named after, Apricity aims to manifest the feeling of the warmth of the sun in the winter in all that it publishes. Established in 2015, Apricity Press was created to fill an immense void in the publishing world. While there are a myriad of presses, literary journals and magazines, many lack the ability to publish multi-genre works, especially dance works…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 20.9 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.3% of poetry submissions accepted.

The Drop is published four times a year and includes short form fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. We are also very open to genre/form blends and mixed media. The Drop is the digital journal of Petrichor Art & Literary, a nonprofit indie press.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 49.6 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 20.6% of poetry submissions accepted.

A literary magazine for quiet pieces that find their own sources of light. We are interested in quiet works – pieces that whisper rather than roar. Give us contemplations on three a.m. train rides, stones skipped on stormy beaches, and all that falls in between. We also have a particular interest in pieces that explore nature and its interactions with the human condition…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 42.1 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 16.7% of poetry submissions accepted.

Glass Poetry Press is a micro-press in Toledo, Ohio that publishes poetry chapbooks. We also publish the online poetry journal, Glass: A Journal of Poetry. Our chapbooks are hand-bound and side stapled with full-color card stock covers. Each chapbook is assigned an ISBN. Initial print run is 100 copies and each chapbook will be kept in print as long as there is sufficient demand, to be determined by the press…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poetry Chapbook.
Payment: + No advance. >=15% royalties. Free copy(ies). Details: 15% royalties.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 120.6 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

Since its founding in 1983, the Phoenix Poets series has published contemporary poets with a keen awareness of the history and possibilities of poetry. Books in the series have won major accolades, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, the Rome Prize in Literature, the William Carlos Williams Award, and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poetry Collection.
Winner's Prize: + Unknown advance. Unknown royalties.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 103.1 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

Prudence Dispatch is a semi-annual journal of poetry published from Prudence Island - Chippaquasett - in the center of Narragansett Bay. We prefer shorter poems (that will fit on a single page) and poems that connect nature to the human experience.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 37.9 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 16.7% of poetry submissions accepted.

Poetry can be as foundational as rock, as light as paper, as incisive as honed scissors. At RockPaperPoem, we print poetry that sticks in your throat like a peach pit – undissolvable, unmovable, permanent. We feature poems that glide as easily as paper planes – airy, translucent, even lyrical. But we also want the sharpness of a scythe that cuts away the chaff and may even nick us in the process, leaving a stunning essence.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 34.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.2% of poetry submissions accepted.

scaffold is an online literary magazine of micro writings. we publish micro fiction, prose poetry, and other tiny grostequeries. we seek miniature worlds that are sharp, shimmering, skeletal, surreal, strange, and sanguinary.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 0.1 days.
Acceptances: Average. 8.5% of poetry submissions accepted.