Free Verse

DIAGRAM is an electronic journal of text and art. As our name indicates, we're interested in representations. In naming. In indicating. In schematics. In the labelling and taxonomy of things. In poems that masquerade as stories; in stories that disguise themselves as indices or obituaries. WE VALUE the insides of things, vivisection, urgency, risk, elegance, flamboyance, work that moves us, language that does something new, or does something old--well. We like iteration and reiteration…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 208.2 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.4% of poetry submissions accepted.

Grand Little Things is a journal that embraces versification, lyricism, and formal poetry that focuses on anything, be it the expanse between the minutia of everyday life, to revelations on how we got here or why we use a thing called language. We welcome grand concepts like spirituality, reality, existence or little things like emotions and human relationships. GLT wants to read all formal poems, be they grand like the sestina or little, like the couplet…
Genres:   Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 235.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.4% of poetry submissions accepted.

HOOT is a postcard. A very nice-looking one. With writing on it! It is also a little more complicated than that. It is also: a brief, displayable, shareable literary magazine. The idea is: to have stories and poems on a postcard, so that they can be displayed and shared easily. Stick it on the fridge! Tuck it in your husband’s/wife’s briefcase or nephew’s bookbag! for people to have a literary magazine that they can both afford to subscribe to and have time to read…
Genres:     Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Unknown.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 87.2 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.3% of poetry submissions accepted.

I-70 Review strives to publish quality poetry and short prose from established and emerging writers in its hard-copy literary annual publication. The magazine's goal are to encourage regional writers, promote poetry in our community, and gain a greater national presence to promote poetry.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 28.7 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 60.0% of poetry submissions accepted.

Innisfree Poetry Journal welcomes submissions of original, previously unpublished poems. We accept poems for consideration from both established writers and new writers whose work is excellent. We publish well-crafted poems, whether in free verse or in traditional forms, poems grounded in the specific, which speak in fresh language and telling images. And we admire musicality: we welcome those who, like the late Lorenzo Thomas, “write poems because I can’t sing.”
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 14.0 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 12.3% of poetry submissions accepted.

ONE ART is a home for good poems. We aim to publish poetry that adds value to the life of our readers. We hope to offer, sustain, and nourish a kind, inviting, and thoughtful community.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 1.8 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 13.0% of poetry submissions accepted.

Posit publishes a stimulating, dynamic selection of the finest new poetry, prose and visual art — accomplished, sophisticated work that may be eclectic in style but is always innovative, challenging, and aesthetically broadening. We believe in de-Balkanizing the literary and visual arts scenes by providing an aesthetically beautiful showcase for carefully curated, highly innovative work that is not circumscribed by affiliation with any specific aesthetic or artistic movement…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 36.9 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

Shot Glass Journal is an on-line poetry journal devoted to short poetry. Where other poetry journals publish poems of various lengths and forms, Shot Glass focuses on both free verse and form poetry of 16 lines or less. Shot Glass Journal believes in fostering emerging talent as well as publishing well established poets. Why only short poetry? It is far more difficult to capture a message in fewer words and still have an effect on a reader…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 68.8 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 22.2% of poetry submissions accepted.