Paying Poems

AGNI is a literary magazine housed at Boston University and known “among readers around the world,” as the writers group PEN put it, “for publishing important new writers early in their careers, many of them translated into English for the first time.” The print magazine appears twice yearly, in late April and late October…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $50 per printed page, up to a maximum of $300.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 101.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.8% of poetry submissions accepted.

Bracken is a literary magazine born of the love of the woods and its shadows. Bracken is green and lush, coarse and delicate, drinks from the earth, and spreads underground, more root than frond. Bracken is understory, invades, takes over, shades and protects. We seek poetry and art that will root, tender and tough, in us.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $30 per poem.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 59.2 days.
Acceptances: Average. 8.3% of poetry submissions accepted.

A place for the discussion of dreams, the analyses of fantasies, the prodding of popular larks.
Genres:   Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Token. Details: USD $5.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 49.2 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

Established by the family and friends of George Bogin for a selection of four or five poems that use language in an original way to reflect the encounter of the ordinary and the extraordinary and to take a stand against oppression in any of its forms.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: USD $500 prize.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 129.7 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

Horrific Scribes is an expanding online archive of dark short fiction (and some poetry) by various authors who share the Horrific Scribblings imprint’s dedication to the provocative, scary, and strange. Most of the stories will have elements of horror, ranging from bloodless slow burns to raucous extreme romps, but related genres–dark fantasy, dark sci-fi, surrealist and other experimental writing with dark tendencies–are likely to appear…
Genres:    Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $25 per accepted submission.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 10.2 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 11.8% 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.

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Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: GBP £1,000 for first prize.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 92.5 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 5.6% 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.

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.