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Smart Search Mainstream Poems

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Note: These are the results of a previous Smart Search List of the Day. Today's Smart Search is Paying General Flash Fiction.
This Smart Search List of the Day is: Mainstream Poems.

Braided Way Magazine

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Braided Way Magazine celebrates the diversity of our world’s faith traditions. Our publication and activities aim to support an individual’s spiritual development, while influencing our larger culture toward inter-spiritual (and inter-religious) understanding, acceptance and engagement. Braided Way Magazine is guided by the ideal that all world faiths and their spiritual practices are braided together…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 5.1 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 35.7% of poetry submissions accepted.

Carolina Muse Literary & Arts Magazine

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Carolina Muse is a multimedia literary & arts magazine featuring young adult creators who have ever called North Carolina or South Carolina their home. We publish videos, images, and text of all art forms, including art & photography, dance, music, poetry, and short stories & scripts.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 44.1 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 18.7% of poetry submissions accepted.

Delta Poetry Review

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Delta Poetry Review is an online poetry journal committed to publishing exceptional work by new, emerging, and established writers. We particularly appreciate new voices and fresh language. While we accept work written in English from anywhere, we are most interested in poetry from and about the American delta region and the Deep South generally.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 36.5 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 23.5% of poetry submissions accepted.

The Echo: Teen Art & Lit Mag

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The Echo is a teenage run, high school literary magazine that prints one magazine annually. You can find more about The Echo on their website where they consistently post new content for their young audience to view. You can find more about them on their social media (Tiktok, Instagram, and Twitter).
Genres:   Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 29.4 days.
Acceptances: Average. 11.5% of poetry submissions accepted.

The Gorko Gazette

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The Gorko Gazette publishes original, previously unpublished, non-AI generated fake news headlines, one-panel cartoons, fake movie reviews, poetry, and other things.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 14.0 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 56.7% of poetry submissions accepted.

The Metaworker Literary Magazine

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We are The Metaworker, an online literary magazine where great stories are forged. Our mission is to publish great things to read. Send us the stuff you don’t think will be published anywhere else. We want new ideas, words that make us ponder, narratives that upend stereotypes…
Genres:        Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 87.0 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 16.5% of poetry submissions accepted.

Okay Donkey Magazine

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Our donkey likes to read the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. If it has animals in it, even better. They like to read about animals. They like things that are funny, things that are sad, and things that are both funny and sad at the same time. Our donkey especially loves to read the experimental, surreal, and genre-bending.
Genres:   Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $20 per poem.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 37.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.2% of poetry submissions accepted.

Overland  Wildcard

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Overland is a print journal (publishing essays, stories and poetry) and an online magazine, publishing non-fiction articles. Overland also occasionally publishes special online editions of fiction and poetry. Those wishing to submit material are strongly urged to familiarise themselves with Overland and its various projects. Overland has a proud history of publishing underrepresented writers and promoting manifold voices…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Professional. Details: AUD $160.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 126.7 days.

Raleigh Review

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Raleigh Review believes that great literature inspires empathy by allowing us to see the world through the eyes of our neighbors, whether across the street or across the globe. Our mission is to foster the creation and availability of accessible yet provocative contemporary literature.
Genres:   Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Semi-pro. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $15.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 91.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 0.9% of poetry submissions accepted.

Sky Island Journal  Some Fees

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Sky Island Journal is an independent, international, free-access literary journal; we discover and publish the finest poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction.
Genres:   Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 5.1 days.
Acceptances: Average. 7.1% of poetry submissions accepted.