resources

Read Write Poem offers this list for poets interested in reading journals or submitting to them. We do our best to be accurate, but web addresses change faster than we can keep up. If you click on a link that doesn’t work, please let us know by sending an email to info (at) readwritepoem (dot) org.

For those interested in submitting their work, here’s a great resource for researching publications and finding out when they accept work: www.duotrope.com.

Journals/Projects Read Write Poem Participants Work On or Run

If you head up or are help run a poetry project or journal, let us know and we’ll list you below.

Asphalt Sky, Jessica Fox

Babel Fruit, Ren Katherine Powell

Bolts of Silk, Crafty Green Poet

Canopic Jar, Rethabile Masilo

Poemeleon, Cati Porter

Postal Poetry, Dana Guthrie Martin and Dave Bonta

Protest Poems, Ren Katherine Powell

Qarrtsiluni, Dave Bonta

Print Journals

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32 Poems

42 Opus

a

AGNI

Alehouse Press

Alimentum

American Poetry Review

The Antioch Review

Awakenings Review

b

Ballard Street Poetry Journal

Barrelhouse

Bellevue Literary Review

Beloit Poetry Journal

Bitter Oleander Press

Boston Review

Brain, Child magazine

Brevity

Brick

c

Calyx

Chattahoochee Review

Chautauqua Literary Journal

Chelsea

Cider Press Review

Cimarron Review

Concelebratory Shoehorn Review

Cream City Review

Creative Nonfiction

e

Ellipsis

Event

f

FIELD

The Foliate Oak

h

Hayden’s Ferry Review

i

Illya’s Honey

Inch

Indiana Review

Isotope

j

Jubilat

l

The Laurel Review

Light Quarterly

Lilies and Cannonballs Review

Literal Latte

Louisville Review

m

The MacGuffin

Many Mountains Moving

Mid-American Journal of Poetry

The Minnesota Review

The Missouri Review

n

The National Poetry Review

New Madrid Journal of Contemporary Literature

Nibble

Nimrod

North American Review

o

The Orange Room Review

p

Parnassus

Pebble Lake Review

Ploughshares

Poemeleon

Poet Lore

Poetry

Poetry East

Portland Review

r

The Raintown Review

Rattle

Rosebud

s

Sanskrit Literary Arts

Saranac Review

Seattle Review

Sentence

Skirt! Magazine

Slipstream magazine

Snake Nation Review

Snow Monkey

So to Speak

Sol Magazine UK

Sol Magazine US

Sonora Review

Southern Poetry Review

Spoon River Poetry Review

Stand

Stickman Review

Subtropics

t

Tea Party Magazine

Thema

Third Coast

Tiferet

Tipton Poetry Journal

Tar River Poetry

v

Virginia Quarterly Review

Online Journals

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2River

3rd Muse Poetry Journal

42 Opus

a

Abalone Moon

The Adirondack Review

Ampersand Poetry Journal

Anderbo

Apple Valley Review

Asphalt Sky

b

Babel Fruit

Blood Lotus

Blossombones

Blue Fifth Review

Bolts of Silk

Boxcar Poetry Review

c

Carve Magazine

Contrary

Cortland Review

Court Green

d

Damselfly Press

Dark Sky magazine

Dead Mule

e

Elsewhere

Emprise Journal

Ep;phany

Etude

f

Failbetter

Fawlt Magazine

From the Fishouse

Front Porch

i

Indelible Kitchen

j

Juked

k

The King’s English

l

Literal Latte

Literary Mama

m

Madhatters Review

Mamazine

Miranda Magazine

n

The New Verse News

No Tell Motel

NOO Journal

o

Opium Den Magazine

Our Stories

p

Persimmon Tree

Prick of the Spindle

q

Qarrtsiluni

r

Random Underground

s

Slope

Small Spiral Notebook

SN Review

Spindle

Storyglossia

Stylus Poetry Journal

t

The Other Journal

Thieves Jargon

Third Order

Three Candles Journal

w

Wicked Alice

Wild River Review

Word Catalyst magazine

z

Zygote in My Coffee


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