Paying Poems

Honoring Allen Ginsberg’s contribution to American literature and his Paterson upbringing
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: USD $2,000 for first prize.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 39.8 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 23.1% of poetry submissions accepted.

For a prose poem.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: USD $500 for winner.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 128.0 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

MudRoom is a journal of poetry and prose. Our mission is to provide every writer, emerging and established, the opportunity to both see their work published and engage with a larger literary community. We are committed to publishing underrepresented voices, especially BIPOC, Queer, Trans, women, and disabled writers. In other words, we ourselves are queer and see queerness as expansive, compelling, and experimental…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $15.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 34.1 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

Since its founding in 1956 at The University of Tulsa, Nimrod has shared with its readers exciting new writing from around the world. Each issue features a stimulating selection of poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction, including work in translation. Selections from Nimrod have been included in The Best American Short Stories, Best Stories from the South, New Voices in American Fiction, Best New Poets, Best American Poetry, and many other noted anthologies…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $20 per page with a $300 maximum.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 51.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.2% of poetry submissions accepted.

The Offing is an online literary magazine publishing creative writing in all genres and art in all media. The Offing publishes work that challenges, experiments, provokes — work that pushes literary and artistic forms and conventions. The Offing is a place for new and emerging writers to test their voices, and for established writers to test their limits…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $25-$100.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 71.7 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.7% of poetry submissions accepted.

OTHERSIDE is a queer-led literary magazine of speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists. We’re looking for previously unpublished speculative poems. Our tastes are varied—we like free verse and fixed forms, experimental and traditional poems, and everything in between. With poetry, feel free to interpret “speculative” broadly…
Genres:     Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $50 per poem.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 6.0 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in poetry.

Painted Bride Quarterly, established in Philadelphia in 1973, is one of the country’s longest running literary magazines. PBQ is a community-based, independent, non-profit literary magazine published quarterly online, making it accessible to a broad and diverse audience.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Unknown.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 112.6 days.
Acceptances: Average. 8.7% of poetry submissions accepted.

Founded in January 1889, Poet Lore is America’s oldest poetry journal. In its current form, Poet Lore is a biannual print journal of poetry, featuring the finest in contemporary writing. Each issue delivers poems that make concerns of our moment both urgent and intimate. Published with the conviction that poetry provides a record of human experience as valuable as history, Poet Lore’s intended audience is broadly inclusive…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $50.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 213.1 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.7% of poetry submissions accepted.

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Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: GBP £50.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 97.9 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 32.3% of poetry submissions accepted.