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Note: These are the results of a previous Smart Search of the Day. Today's Smart Search is Mainstream Poetry

Today's Smart Search of the Day is: Poems. Check back tomorrow for a new list.

The Bombay Literary Magazine

The Bombay Literary Magazine‘s mission is to promote writers through their fine work. We are also interested in nonfiction that looks at literature from a “writerly” perspective. We publish stories, poems, essays, reviews, visual narratives and graphic fiction. Our people are mostly located in India, and hence our content has a certain South-Asian orientation. However, this is only an accident of geography.…
Genres: Open to all/most Genres, including General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Semi-pro payment (US$5-49 per poem) to Professional payment (US$50 or more per poem) Semi-pro to Professional. Details: INR ₹5,000.
Avg. Response: 87.3 days.
Acceptances: 13.0% of poetry submissions accepted.

Book of Matches: A Literary Journal

Book of Matches is the passion project of two lovers of Story. In an age dominated by our worst tendencies for tribalism, it is more important than ever to celebrate the best in humanity through the very real magic of words. Book of Matches is always interested in protest—interested in protest against the unknowing alive in human existence, in protest against the knowing, too.…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: 56.7 days.
Acceptances: 30.6% of poetry submissions accepted.

The Disappointed Housewife

The Disappointed Housewife seeks fiction, essays, and poetry – along with unclassifiable writings, photos, and drawings – that stretch genre definitions, break the rules, challenge readers, and bend their brains, all while maintaining the highest levels of style and substance. We think that literature has to evolve, that it should keep up with the world around it even if it doesn’t reflect it so much as use it. Taunt it. Remold it, when required.…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: 3.8 days.
Acceptances: None reported yet in poetry.

Fahmidan Journal

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 payment (US$5-49 per poem) Semi-pro. Details: USD $25.
Avg. Response: 8.4 days.
Acceptances: 1.5% of poetry submissions accepted.

Livina Press: A Literary Magazine Charges fees for some submissions Wildcard

There is so much to do in this life. Visit that one place you've always longed to visit, draw that image that has been bouncing around in your mind, tell the person you love how you feel, write that story that's jumping around in your head, going skydiving even though you're afraid of heights.so much that you would never be bored. Livina Press is for the things you want to write about.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Not One of Us

Not One of Us is a hardcopy zine about people (or things) out of place in their surroundings, outsiders, social misfits, aliens in the sf sense—anyone excluded from society for whatever the reason. We want to explore “otherness” from every possible angle.
Genres: Open to all/most Genres, including Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Semi-pro payment (US$5-49 per poem) (Provides free copy/copies) Semi-pro. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $5.
Avg. Response: 5.9 days.
Acceptances: 17.7% of poetry submissions accepted.

Permafrost Magazine Charges fees for some submissions

Permafrost Magazine is the farthest north literary journal for writing and the arts. Founded in 1977, Permafrost is housed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks MFA program, and run by dedicated creative writing graduate students. As the editors of the farthest north literary magazine, we’ve chosen an unconventional, expansive place to live. That, too, is what we seek in your submissions. This is especially to say: we are not particularly interested in reading obvious, Alaska-themed work (i.e.…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: 102.9 days.
Acceptances: 11.4% of poetry submissions accepted.

Redivider: A Journal for New Literature

Launched in 1986, Redivider is a literary journal produced by the graduate students in the Writing, Literature, and Publishing program at Emerson College in the vibrant literary hub of Boston. We welcome fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and graphic narrative submissions from emerging and established writers. And if you’re wondering about the name—it’s a palindrome!
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Token payment (under US$5 per poem) to Professional payment (US$50 or more per poem) Token to Professional. Details: $30.
Avg. Response: 87.7 days.
Acceptances: 1.9% of poetry submissions accepted.

River and South Review

River and South Review is an online literary journal run by the students of the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University. We publish new, emerging and seasoned writers.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: No monetary payment No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: 49.8 days.
Acceptances: None reported yet in poetry.

Strange Horizons: A Magazine of Speculative Fiction

Strange Horizons is a magazine of and about speculative fiction. We publish fiction, poetry, reviews, essays, interviews, roundtable discussions, and art. Our definition of speculative fiction includes science fiction, fantasy, horror, slipstream, and all other flavors of fantastika. Work published in Strange Horizons has been shortlisted for or won Hugo, Nebula, Rhysling, Theodore Sturgeon, James Tiptree Jr., and World Fantasy Awards.…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Poem.
Payment: Professional payment (US$50 or more per poem) Professional. Details: USD $50 per poem.
Avg. Response: 45.1 days.
Acceptances: 11.3% of poetry submissions accepted.