Paying Fee-Free General Literary Poems

Founded in June 2020, The Drift aims to introduce new work and new ideas by young writers who haven’t yet been absorbed into the media hivemind and don’t feel hemmed in by the boundaries of the existing discourse. Our issues, published three times a year, feature longform essays and cultural criticism, short fiction, poetry, interviews, dispatches, and extremely abbreviated reviews.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $150.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 126.8 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

Founded in the Summer of 2020 by Ranna Kisswani & A.R. Arthur (formerly A.R. Salandy), Fahmidan Journal hopes to bring out diverse voices and their cacophonous words. Send us your thought-provoking existentialism, your phobias, your darkest moments. Entrance us with your whimsical fantasy. Move us to tears with your truth in a world of suffering. Captivate and intrigue us with your hopes and dreams.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $35.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 10.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.8% of poetry submissions accepted.

Frontier Poetry began with the simple mission of being a platform for emerging poets—to uplift, to prepare, and to inspire. We are looking for poets and poems that strive to place themselves at the edge of what language can do. This does not mean we are only concerned with experimental poetry…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Professional. Details: $50.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 44.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 0.8% of poetry submissions accepted.

Josephine Quarterly was founded in 2012 by poets Komal Patel Mathew and Jenny Sadre-Orafai in Atlanta. The editors are interested in work from both established and new voices. Our tastes tend to run wild from Mary Ruefle to Aimee Nezhukumatathli and Donika Kelly to Lucille Clifton to Louise Glück. A good poem is a good poem. We know what we want when we see it.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $30.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 52.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.5% of poetry submissions accepted.

little somethings press: a collection of small writings aims to highlight the growing wave of micro-literature from flash prose to micropoetry, while navigating the space between literary journals and zines.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Unknown.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 58.1 days.
Acceptances: Average. 7.7% of poetry submissions accepted.

M E N A C E publishes work that encapsulates the dark, the transgressive, and the gross. While not strictly a space for the speculative, M E N A C E seeks the “literary weird”—work that would be rejected from big literary magazines for being too genre…
Genres:    General, Fantasy, Horror.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $50.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 7.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.3% of poetry submissions accepted.

Poetry London’s artistic vision is based on the understanding that ‘the best poetry’ includes the broadest variety of styles and subjects, and that the very best of that poetry often acts as an unacknowledged catalyst for change. Our understanding of change is that it is argumentative and uninhibited and Poetry London will do all it can to encourage that kind of poetry and be a home to it…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: GBP £35 per poem.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 92.7 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.4% of poetry submissions accepted.

The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of all kinds. Our mostly volunteer-run magazine strives to be a platform for risk-taking voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere. We lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers our readers may already know and love. We want to bring new perspectives into the conversation that will make us all look deeper.
Genres:   General, Horror.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $200.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 64.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.0% of poetry submissions accepted.

The first issue of The Spectacle was launched in the fall of 2015, with Kelly Caldwell, Cassie Donish, and Jonathan McGregor at the helm. Twice a year, the magazine publishes issues that include poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art, while The Revue [listed separately] publishes flash prose, short poems, interviews, special features, and other pieces year-round. We aim for content that reminds us that our lenses matter—they focus, distort, clarify, conceal…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $50.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 68.7 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.