An Approximate Print Journal Ranking

This ranking system attempts impose an order on the "difficulty" of a particular literary journal -- that is, the degree of likelihood that a given poem, submitted by a reasonably accomplished poet, will be accepted for publication.  The system is based upon a mix of objective and subjective criteria. 

The "rank" is arbitrarily assigned on a scale of 1 to 10, and is somewhat "logarithmic" ... as the Richter Scale is, for example.  The difficulty involved in getting accepted at each level is estimated to be significantly greater than the difficulty at the last level.   

Methodology and Criteria

The objective criteria are indicated below, and include (but are not limited to) 

There are also a variety of subjective criteria that have been developed by a group of published poets and academics.  The "acceptance ratio" alone doesn't dictate rankings, for example.  Larger, more visible publications (e.g., Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, Poetry) must be assumed to receive very large numbers of mediocre poetry from individuals who would never think to submit to, say, The Gettysburg Review.  Even two publications with similar acceptance ratios cannot be assumed to be equally likely to accept a given poem.  The prestige of a journal will influence the composition of poets who submit there. Submitting to the Kenyon Review, for example, ensures that one will be competing for "page-space" against a larger number of well-known and accomplished poets than a journal of less renown, but with a similar acceptance ratio.

The column for "Honors & Comments" is heavily annotated with the journal's occurrences in Best American Poetry.  We realize that this is a very approximate surrogate for "prestige", and is not a major factor in the rankings.  Other factors affecting the rankings (but not explicitly documented in the table) include the number of Pushcart Prizes won by poems from the indicated journal, and whether the journal runs competitions for one or more poems.

The editorial preferences of  differing journals confound the general notion of "difficulty."  It is safe to say, for example, that a poem accepted by Fence or New American Writing may stand little chance of acceptance by a journal with more conservative tastes.  In other words, a journal may be significantly more "difficult" for one poet than another.

Submissions

Different journals refer to their "number of submissions" differently.  In some cases, the number includes both poetry and fiction submissions.  In some cases, it pertains to the actual number of "envelopes" received.  In other cases, the count includes each actual manuscript submitted (e.g., each poem or work of fiction).  This discrepancy in what exactly constitutes a submission make the task of calculating (for example) acceptance rate impossible -- except as a rough measure.  For publications for which we know how a submission is defined, we will note that.

It is also important to note that virtually every literary journal solicits work from established poets.  In the case of new journals and established mainline magazines, this can account for a majority of the poetry.  The presence of solicited work, of course, increases greatly the difficulty of getting an unsolicited submission accepted.

Press Run and Received Per Year

The Press Run and Received Per Year numbers are taken from reliable sources, when available.  In many cases they are estimates.  We encourage journals to email us with corrections when we our data is incorrect.

In the case of most literary journals, a majority of the Press Run is dedicated to subscriptions from individuals and libraries.  Library subscriptions often make up 50% to 80% of the press run, which implies that the readership is much larger than the (often small) press run numbers.

We have tried to obtain accurate data for the Received Per Year numbers.  We only cite numbers which we can infer or substantiate from sources that are sometimes as much as 5 years old.  We strongly suspect that the Received Per Year numbers have risen dramatically in that time.  It is our suspicion that the top 20-30 publications now receive in excess of 10,000 submissions per year.

Caveats

This scale is NOT meant to characterize one publication as "better" than another publication.  Some of the assessment group's favorite publications reside in many of the lower and middle ranking levels.  This ranking ONLY represents the group's consensus of "how tough" the journal is to get published in. 

We fully admit that this ranking system is flawed and approximate.  Any given publication may "deserve" a ranking that is a point higher or lower.  We will endeavor to review and revise the ranking as additional information is available (and as time permits).


Notes

The publications with the annotation "Note" have been updated with current data graciously supplied by the editor of the publication, for which we are very thankful!  Data that has been confirmed by the publication appears in green.

1For the purposes of the New England Review, a submission is an individual packet of submitted work.  The actual number of individual submitted poems is closer to 30,000.

2Press Run numbers for The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Hudson Review, American Poetry Review, Threepenny Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, and Boston Review were taken from published data supplied by the magazines. 

3"Received Per Year" numbers for The Atlantic Monthly obtained from their web site (http://www.theatlantic.com/about/atlfaqf.htm#circulation)

4Circulation (Press Run) for The New Republic cited in a Salon.com article.

Publication 

How Tough  Press Run  Received Per Year  Published of Received  Honors & Comments  Who Published
Futility Review 10 0 5,000 0 Email submissions to submissions@futilityreview.com Nobody
Atlantic Monthly 9 500,0002 75,0003 50 BAP 88-92,95-96,99-01,05,06,10 Generally heavyweights
New Yorker 9 900,0002 50,000 50 BAP 88-10 Generally heavyweights
American Poetry Review 8 16,0002 10,000 200 BAP every year but 96 Stern,Ashbery,Kinnell,Dickey
Paris Review 8 15,000 20,000 200 BAP 88-89,91-98,01,03,05-06,08-09 Old Greats and new talent
Poetry 8 16,0002 90,000 350 BAPs every year but 90 & 04 Everyone not too weird
New Republic 7 90,0004     BAP 88,90,91,93-95,97,98,00,01,04,09 Strand,Kirchwey,Carl Dennis,Brodsky
Ploughshares 7 7,0002 2,500 150 BAP 90-05,07-10 Li-Young Lee,Hall,Pinsky
Boston Review 6 15,0002 5,000 30 BAP 93,98,00-05,10 McHugh,Tan Lin
Gettysburg Review 6 4,000     BAP 89,90,93-95,97-00,06,09 Dove,Hall,Charles Wright
Kenyon Review 6 6,000 6,000 100 BAP 92,93,94,96-98,01-03,06-09 Gaspar,Komunyakaa,Chin,Feldman
New American Writing 6 4,100     BAP 88-89,91,95,00-08 James Tate,Ray Gonzales,Mackey
New England ReviewNote 6 4,500 10,0001 72 BAP 92,93,94,98,99,00,02-10 Ali,BP Kelly,Carl Phillips
Threepenny Review 6 10,0002 4,500 40 BAP 90,91,94,95,98,00-04 Gunn,Heaney,Milosz,Gluck
TriQuarterly 6 5,000 3,000 60 BAP 93,94,95,96,97,00-04,07 Carl Phillips,Hirsch
AGNI 5 3,000   80 BAP 92,93,94,98,99,01,02,08,09 Heaney,Rich,Ha Jin,Walcott
Antioch Review 5 4,000 3,000 30 BAP 95,98-02,05,0709,10 Graham,Strand
Barrow Street 5 2,000 3,000 100 BAP 00-03,05-09 Kim,Peacock,Jarman
Beloit Poetry Journal 5 1,300     BAP 94,96,00,02,05,07 Stallings,Goldbarth,Garren
Boulevard 5 3,500     BAP 90-95,00,06,10 Ashbery,Graham,Clampitt,Strand
Callaloo 5 1,600     BAP 92,94-96,00-01,03,09,10 ; Deals with African American Diaspora Mackey,Dove,Hamer,Carl Phillips
Colorado Review 5 1,300 10,000 200 BAP 93-97,01-03,07 Volkman, Bang,Merwin,Szporluk
Conduit 5 800 0   BAP 04,05,07,10 MJ Bank, Hikok, James Tate
Denver Quarterly 5 1,900     BAP 90,92,97,98,00,04,07 Ashbery,Graham
Field 5 1,500     BAP 92,93,94,95,98,03,06-10 Simic,Holub,McPherson
Five Points 5 2,000 2,000 100 BAP 00,03,04,06-10 Charles Wright,Philip Levine
Georgia Review 5 4,500 10,000 60 BAP 89,92,95,00,06,09,10 Dove,Levine,Pattiann Rogers
Grand Street 5 4,000     BAP 88-91,92,93,94,97 Ashbery,Simic
Hudson Review 5 4,5002     BAP 88-89,91,93,94,97-99,05,08-10 Thiel,Tim Murphy,Stallings
Iowa Review 5 3,000 5,000 100 BAP 89-97,05-09 Uribe,Stern,Pattiann Rogers,Dunn
jubilat 5 10,000 3,000 60 BAP 01-02,05 McHugh,Burkard,Mackey,Simic
Michigan Quarterly Review 5 2,000 1,400 30 BAP 89-90,92,94,95,98,04-07,10 Komunyakaa,Snodgrass,Hass,OK Davis
New Criterion 5       BAP 89,91,92,94,98,00,05-07,09 Justice,Davison,Spires
Partisan Review 5 8,200     BAP 88-89,91,95,98,99,00 Wright,Maxwell
Pleiades 5 2,500 9,000 90 BAP 02-05,09-10 Hillman,Carl Phillips
Poetry Northwest 5 0 0 0 BAP 96,03 Carruth,Berryman,Milosz,Levine
Salmagundi 5 5,400 1,200 20 BAP 94,95,99 Pinksy,Olds,Gluck
Shenandoah 5 1,900     BAP 89-90,93,97,99,00,05-06,09 Oliver,Merwin,Hacker
Slate 5       Major online venue  
Southern Review 5 2,900 6,000 80 BAP 95,96,98-01 Heaney,Komunyakaa,Oliver
Southwest Review 5 1,500 1,000 32 BAP 90,91,93,94,95,98,01,07,09 Rich,Clampitt,Peacock
Verse 5 1,000 5,000 50 BAP 88,92,97,99,01-03,06-08,10 Soto,James Tate,McHugh
Virginia Quarterly Review 5 7,000     BAP 90,93,00,04-10 Marvin Bell,Skloot,Balaban,Raab
Western Humanities Review 5 1,100 9,000 50 BAP 89-93,95,98 Levine,Ramke,Rogers
Yale Review 5       BAP 89-92,94,95,98,99,00,05 Hacker,Stallings,Hadas,Salter,Lehman
32 Poems 4 400     BAP 05,08,10 Stallings,Collins, Lydia Davis, Guest
Alaska Quarterly Review 4 2,800 5,000 60 BAP 96,06,07,09 Hirshfield,BC,Laux,Kim,Balaban
American Letters and Commentary 4 2,000     BAP 97,00-01,05 Bernstein,Lydia Davis,CD Wright
American Scholar 4 0 0 0 BAP 05,08,09  
Another Chicago Magazine 4 2,000     BAP 92,94,96,97,01 Goldbarth,Simic
Atlanta Review 4 2,500 10,000 100 BAP 06,07 Heaney,Walcott,Kumin,Simic
Bellevue Literary Review 4 5,000 1,800 55   Perchik,James Tate,Philip Levine
Black Warrior Review 4 2,000     BAP 90,97,99,00 Merwin,Salmun,Notley
BOMB 4       BAP 03,05,07 Matthew Zapruder, Honor Moore
Chelsea 4 2,100     ** Closing Down ** BAP 94,95,97,98,00 Volkman,Carl Phillips,Bowman
Chicago Review 4 2,000     BAP 02,04,10 Halliday,Hirsch,Simic
Cincinnati Review 4 1,000     BAP 05,06,09 Richard Howard,Kirby,Hoagland,Duhamel
Columbia 4 2,000       Carl Phillips,Billy Collins,Timothy Liu,K. Volkman
Conjunctions 4       BAP 98-99,01,04 Ashbery,Armantrout
Connecticut Review 4 3,000 2,500 125 BAP 98,02,06 Pattiann Rogers,Alberto Rios
Crab Orchard Review 4 3,500 12,000 120 BAP 99-01,06 Suárez,R.T. Smith
Crazyhorse 4 2,000 8,000 80 BAP 05-08 Bly,Hicok,Ruefle,Wagoner,Dean Young
Cream City Review 4 1,000     BAP 96,97,99 Oliver,Levine,Gallagher
Facture 4       BAP 01-02 Armantrout,Bang,Niedecker,Cole Swensen
Fence 4 3,000     BAP 99,01,04-05,07,09 Rankine,Doyle,Bedient,Graham
Green Mountains Review 4 1,800 5,000 60 BAP 89,91,94,97,99,04 Olds,Carl Phillips,Wojahn
Gulf Coast 4       BAP 05-08 Beachy-Quick,Hoagland,C. Dale Young
Hambone 4       BAP 90,92,93,95,99,02 Lydia Davis,Frumkin,Sobin,McNaughton
Hanging Loose 4 2,000     BAP 90,93,95,96,97,02,04,05,07 Alexie,Ha Jin,Hettie Jones
Harvard Review 4       BAP 95,99,00,02,06,08 Bedient,Dennis,Kirsch,Skloot
Hotel Amerika 4       BAP 04 Hicok,Ashbery,Hollander,Mackey
Indiana ReviewNote 4 2,000 9,000 60 BAP 96,97,00,09 Levine,McGrath,Simic,Strand,Rios
Journal 4 1,900 4,000 200 BAP 01 Brigit Kelly,McHugh
LIT 4 0 0 0 BAP 01,05,06,08,10  
Literal Latté 4 25,000 3,000 30 BAP 99 Ginsberg,Updike
Many Mountains Moving 4 3,000 4,000 40 BAP 96,97,99 Bly,Rich,Ginsberg
Massachusetts Review 4 1,600 2,500 25 BAP 95,97,01 Hacker,Hoagland
Missouri Review 4 6,500     BAP 09 Simic,Levine
National Poetry Review 4 2,000 4,000 40 Submissions open to subscribers in the summer Stallings,Thiel, CD Young,Hicok
New Letters Magazine 4 3,000     BAP 90,92,97,00,05-07 Nye,Goldbarth
New Ohio Review 4         Burt, Corey,Dean Young, Simic
No 4       BAP 04 Armantrout,Gander,Mackey,Swensen
North American Review 4 2,500 10,000 100 BAP 92,95-97 Komunyakaa,Suárez
Northwest Review 4 1,300 3,500 140 BAP 94,01 Dugan,Eberhart
Ohio Review 4 3,000 3,000 30 BAP 89,92-93 Merwin,Ramke,Oliver,Wright
Ontario Review 4       BAP 90,93,98,99,03 Perillo,Gregg,Komunyakaa,Wagoner
POOL 4       BAP 04,05,07 Goldbarth,Bedient,Armantrout
Potomac Review 4 2,000 1,000 50 BAP 99 Josephine Jacobsen
Prairie Schooner 4 2,500 5,500 150 BAP 96,08-10 Hacker,Ignatow,Rudman
Quarterly West 4 1,500 2,500 20 BAP 97,00,08 Pinsky,Goldbarth
Raritan 4       BAP 90,92,98,07-08 Pinsky,Daniel Anderson
Rattle 4 4,000 8,000 200 BAP 03,07 Bukowski,Levine,Komunyakaa,Laux
River City 4 1,000     BAP 96,99 Updike,Levine,Kumin,Hirshfield
River Styx 4 2,500 8,000 65 BAP 94,96,98,06 Hacker,Jared Carter
Salt Hill 4 1,000 3,000 60 BAP 98,09 Duhamel,Burkard,Bernstein,Perillo
Seneca Review 4 1,000 4,000 100 BAP 89,94,97,99-02 Heaney,Dove,Levertov,Carruth
Sentence 4       BAP 05,07,08,10 Edson,Duhamel, Ray Gonzalez
Sewanee Review 4 3,200     BAP 92,99,10 Berry,Jarman,Hecht
Tin House 4       BAP 00,01,03,04,10 Simic,AS Ali,Hall,BC
Volt 4       BAP 01-02 Dean Young,Dara Wier
Washington Square Review 4 2,000       Merwin,Olds,Levine,Chin
Witness 4       BAP 89,92,95,02-03,10 Citino,Skloot,Wagoner,Gallagher
ZYZZYVA 4 2,500   40 BAP 92,94,95 ; West Coast writers only Porras,Timothy Steele,Kevin Miller
3d Bed 3 1,500     BAP 02; email Ray Gonzales,Christine Hume,Yakich
88Note 3   1,000 25 BAP 03,05 Hoagland,Wagoner,Lux,Harvey
American Literary Review 3 500     BAP 09 Pattiann Rogers,Revell,Rohrer
American Poetry Journal 3         Diane Thiel,C. J. Sage,Joyce Nower, Steve Mueske
Arshile 3       BAP 97 Ashbery
Artful Dodge 3 1,000     Features translations Nin Andrews,Mông-Lan,Duhamel,Glaser
Asheville Poetry Review 3 2,000 8,000 400 BAP 09 Bly
Aufgabe 3       BAP 04  
Backward City Review 3         Tost,Gudding,Manguso,Mohammad
Bat City Review 3         Burkard,Elder,Dubie,Knott
Bellingham Review 3 1,500       Goldbarth,Soto,Gallagher
Bitter Oleander 3 1,500 6,000 120 BAP 99 Bly,Duane Locke,Ray Gonzalez
Blackbird 3   0      
Bombay Gin 3       BAP 02; no name on page  
Café Review 3       BAP 99,02;reading fee of $1 per poem Ray Gonzalez
Canary 3 1,200     BAP 04,06 Matthea Harvey,Ben Doyle,Laux,Timothy Liu
Carolina Quarterly 3 1,000 6,000 60   Levertov,Wilbur,Ha Jin
Chain 3       Check topic before submitting Armantrout,Notley,Silliman
Chariton Review 3 600 8,000 50   Wayne Dodd
Chattahoochee Review 3 1,250       Stallings
Cider Press Review 3 750 1,500 75   Snograss,Lux
Cimarron Review 3 600     BAP 09 Gallagher,Goldbarth,Muldoon
Columbia Poetry Review 3       BAP 04,06,10 Liu,Volkman,Duhamel
Court Green 3       BAP 05,10 Gudding,Equi,Ruefle,Kushner
CrossConnect 3          
Crowd 3 1,200       MJ Bang,Rebecca Woolf,Cole Swenson
Cue 3 500 2,000 40 Pushcart 2007; Prose Poetry Ashbery,Tate, Dove, Lehman,Tost,Palmer,Waldrop
Cutbank 3 500       Goldbarth,Galvin
Dark Horse 3       Published in Scotland Heaney,Cope,Gioia,Hecht
Delmar 3         Belz,Matthea Harvey,Szybist
Diner 3 500     Holds contests: Hicok, Ruefle ,XJ Kennedy were past judges Dan Lewis,Roney-O'Brien,Tremblay
Double Take 3       BAP 99 Laughlin
Ecopoetics 3       BAP 04  
Evansville Review 3 3,000 2,000 40 BAP 01; Poems of Literary Merit,no experimental Ignatow,Updike,Gallagher
Faultline 3 1,000 5,000 50   Szporluk,Clarvoe,Aridjis
Fourteen Hills 3 600     BAP 96 Addonizio,Michael S. Harper,Alice Notley
Free Lunch 3 1,200       BC,Hall,Jared Carter
Fulcrum 3       BAP 04,06,08,09 BC,Muldoon,Kleinzahler
G.W. Review 3          
Gargoyle 3       BAP 91,03 Balaban,Addonizio,Koertge
Georgetown Review 3 1,000 1,000 50    
Greensboro Review 3 800 4,000 12   Lux,Dobyns,Plumly
Hayden's Ferry Review 3 1,300 5,000 150   James Tate,Dunn
Hiram Poetry Review 3 400 5,000 20 distinctive,witty,and heroic poetry Gudding
Icon 3          
Idaho Review 3 1,000       Szporluk,Citino,Galvin
Image 3 4,200 800 16 BAP 05,09-10 Michael Chitwood,Robert Cording,Daniel Tobin
Kiosk 3       BAP 04; mainly post-avant K. Silem Mohammad,Revell,DuPlessis,Notley
Lips 3 1,000       Ginsberg,Corso,Ignatow
Literary Review 3 2,000       D. Nurkse,Elaine Equi,Susan Wheeler
Lullwater Review 3 2,500       Lifshin,Ha Jin
Luna 3       BAP 03 Addonizio,Glaser,Schelling,Rich
Lyric 3 400     BAP 04,08 Linda Gregg,David St. John,Eady
Mankato Poetry Review 3 200       Edward Micus
Manoa Journal 3 3,000     BAP 94,95 Tse,Barnstone,Balaban
Margie 3   40,000 50 BAP 06,09 Dennis,Skloot,Duhamel
Marlboro Review 3 1,000 1,000 70 Pushcarts Galore! William Matthews
Meridian 3 1,000 2,500 30 BAP 99,00,08 Platt,Susan Wood,Fennelly
Mid-American Review 3 1,600 2,000 50 BAP 99,03,09; 02 Pushcarts Duhamel,Hicok
Mipoesias 3       BAP 06,09 Alsop,Covey,F Wright,Nezhukumatathil,Reyes
Mississippi Review 3 2,000     BAP 03,04 Galvin,Kumin,Levis,Henry Taylor
Nation 3       BAP 90,93,95,01,08,09  
Natural Bridge 3 1,000 1,200 20   X. J. Kennedy
Nebraska Review 3 500     Want lyric poetry; BAP 01 Carl Phillips
New Laurel Review 3 500 7,000 70 BAP 97 Jared Carter
New Orleans Review 3 300 550 50 Lyric poetry Komunyakaa,Matherene
New York Quarterly 3   50,000 100 BAP 05,09,10 Pastan,Lehman,Kennedy
Nimrod 3 2,000 2,000 20 BAP 95 Glancy,Lautermilch
Ninth Letter 3         Hicok,Waldrep,Halliday,Hoagland
Northwest Florida Review 3 1,000        
Notre Dame Review 3 2,000 4,000 40 BAP 05,08 Creeley,Levertov
OCHO 3         Hayes,Cavalieri,Addonizio,Duhamel,Mohammad
Open City 3       BAP 04,05,10 CK Willams,Goodyear,Forché.
Oyster Boy Review 3 200 1,500 30    
Painted Bride Quarterly 3 1,000 1,000 150 BAP 95,99,09 Bly,Bukowski,Dunn
Parnassus 3 1,100     BAP 00,09 Heaney,Gallager,Fulton
Piedmont Literary Review 3          
Poetry Miscellany 3 750 10,000 20   Halliday,Donald Justice
Post Road 3       Accepts e-submissions OK Davis,M Harvey,K Volkman
Potpourri 3 1,500       XJ Kennedy,Gallagher
Prose Poem 3       BAP 99 Brandt,Wynand,Heaney
Rattapallax 3       BAP 03  
Red Cedar Review 3 400 500 20 Accepts email submissions Margaret Atwood,Dybek
Rhino 3         Duhamel,Nezhukumatathil,Agodon
Seattle Review 3 800       Pattian Rogers,Lucia Perillo
Shade 3       Yearly Anthology Burkard,Halliday,Hamer,Hicok,Kooser
Skanky Possum 3       BAP 02 The usual PoPoMo suspects
Smartish Pace 3 400 3,000 120   Shapiro,Henry Taylor,Wagoner,Kumin
Southern Poetry Review 3 1,200 8,000 160 BAP 10 BC,Hudgins,Bloch,McHugh
Spinning Jenny 3       BAP 03 Kercheval,McDaniel,T. Robinson
Spoon River Poetry Review 3 1,500 3,000 30 BAP 03 Dybek,Dave Smith
Subtropics 3 0 0 0 BAP 06-08 Brock,Kirby,Powell,Wright
Swink 3         B.F.Goldberg,D.Nurkse,T.Hayes
Sycamore Review 3 1,000     BAP 05 Halliday
Tampa Review 3 1,000 2,000 60 BAP 95 Laurence Goldstein
Tar River Poetry 3 900 7,000 150 BAP 94 Jarman,Goldbarth
Texas Review 3 1,000     BAP 01 Hall,XJ Kennedy
The Hat 3       BAP 02,06  
Third Coast 3 1,000 2,000 100 BAP 03,06,09 Kizer,Philip Levine
Turnrow 3 1,000 5,000 50   CD Wright,Suárez
Two Rivers Review 3 400       BC,Nye
Underwood Review 3          
Water-Stone Review 3 1,200     BAP 99; Pushcart 2001 Addonizio,Bly,Campo,Dybek,Laux
West Branch 3 1,100     BAP 10 Taylor Graham,Kooser,James Harms
26 2       BAP 04  
Alabama Literary Review 2   300 30    
Amherst Review 2   800 30    
Anon 2       Send 2 copies, no names  
Antigonish Review 2          
Appalachian Review 2          
Arkansas Review 2         Beggs,Bresman,J.E. Pitts
Arts & Letters 2         Nola Garrett,James Doyle,ZaraRaab
Ascent 2 750     BAP 94 Wendy Bishop
Aux Arc Review 2 1,500     Two issues a year, one review, one chapbook  
Baltimore Review 2 600       Zydek
Bathtub Gin 2 300     May not be currently functioning Wooten,Catlin,De Witt
Beacon Street Review 2 1,000 800 40 Include 3! Copies of each poem, read all year but  
Berkeley Poetry Review 2 0 0 0   Ashbery,Goldbarth,Pinsky,Kinnell
Bird Dog 2       See website for submission particulars kari edwards,Alan DeNiro,John Latta
Birmingham Poetry Review 2 700        
Blink 2       Specialized in very short poems Beth Ann Fennelly,Bob Arnold, Ben Greene
Blue Mesa Review 2 1,000        
Borderlands 2 1,000 2,000 120 Specialized in TX & Southwest writers; Bilingual Suárez
Bryant Literary Review 2         CH Webb,Duhamel,Todd Balazic
Burnside Review 2         Perchik,Lifshin,Loudon,Suarez,Guest
California Quarterly 2 500 4,000 200   Lifshin
Christian Century 2 0 0      
Circumference 2         Hinton,Hacker,Glenum
Clackamas Literary Review 2          
Coal City Review 2 200       Walt McDonald
Cold Mountain Review 2         Zydek,Van Cleave, Jake Adam York
Comstock Review 2          
Concho River Review 2         Perchik,Seth Abramson, Henry Taylor
Confrontation 2          
Contrary 2       email submissions ONLY; Likes works that challenge their categories  
Crab Creek Review 2          
Cranky 2       Also accept email submissions at cranky@failedpromise.org Lifshin, Rich Jordan,John Burgess
Dislocate 2         Burt,LaPerle,Igloria
Distillery 2          
Divide 2          
Dry Creek Review 2 1,000 600 60    
Effing Magazine 2         Behrle, Hoa Nguyen,Slease,Tost,Spahr
Eleven Eleven 2         Hugh Steinberg,Cara Stimpson,Eileen Tabios
Eleventh Muse 2 250     Deadline is Dec 1st for each year's issue Ted Kooser, Mary Crow, Timothy Murphy
Elixir 2         R.T.Smith,Perchik,Burt,Revell
Euphony 2       Prefers email submissions Devecka,Claxton,Jay Carson
Factorial 2          
Flint Hills Review 2         Matagrano,Walt McDonald,Suárez
Florida Review 2         Atwood,Doty,BC
Flyway 2 500     Sweet Corn Poetry Prize: $150 plus a bushel of corn Walt McDonald,Shipley
Fugue 2 250 800 20    
Gecko 2 1,000 2,000 60    
Good Foot 2       Accepts via email, also Liu,Tost,Ball,Duhamel
Grasslands Review 2 200 600 30   Suárez
Green Hills Literary Lantern 2       Published annually Van Cleave,Suarez,Zydeck
GSU Review 2          
Harpur Palate 2 500 700 35   Allison Joseph,B.H. Fairchild,Suárez, Matagrano
Heliotrope 2         Carl Dennis,Anne Sheldon
Hunger Mountain 2 1,500 600 30 Send 2 copies of everything Alice Hoffman,Maxine Kumin,James Tate
Iambs & Trochees 2       "A Journal Of Formal & Narrative Poetry" Stallings,Hadas,Espaillat,Reeser
Iconoclast 2 1,000 2,000 60    
Illuminations 2         Seamus Heaney, Stephen Spender, Virgil Suarez
Into The Teeth of the Wind 2 200       Barry Spacks,Catherine Daly,V. Suarez
Iron Horse Literary Review 2         Bruce Bond,April Lindner,Floyd Skloot
Karamu 2 700 500 50    
Laurel Review 2 900       Goldbarth
Licking River Review 2 1,000        
Light Quarterly 2 1,000     Light Verse Disch,Hall,Snodgrass,Updike,Stallings
Literary Salt 2       Not currently accepting Annalynn Hammond,Muriel Nelson
Long Shot 2 2,000        
Louisiana Literature 2 1,200       Glaser,Shipley
Louisville Review 2         Gabby Kindell,Brad Davis,Joe Survant
MacGuffin 2       Accepts email submissions V. Suarez, Linda Nemec Foster, Lois Beebe Hayna
Mad Poetry Review 2 1,000 2,000 120   Nye,Lifshin
Mad Poets Review 2 250 600 60    
Main Street Rag 2 800        
Manhattan Review 2 500     Wants ambitious poetry Nurske,Wagoner
Maryland Poetry Review 2         Walt McDonald
Midwest Poetry Review 2          
Midwest Quarterly 2 650 4,000 60    
Minnesota Review 2         Bruce Robbins,Barbara Foley,Jim Daniels
MÖBIUS 2       Socially and Politically relevant poetry and fiction  
Outerbridge 2 500 500 60    
Pacific Review 2         Catherine Howl,Rich Jordan
Pataphysics 2       Colliding science, ecology, architecture, publishing; BAP 04  
Pearl 2 700       M. Johnson,B. Hauk,Addonizio
Pebble Lake Review 2       email submissions accepted Schroeder,Lifshin,Poynter
Pinyon Poetry 2 200 4,000 80   Wendy Bishop
Plainsongs 2       Great Plains poems encouraged  
PMS 2       BAP 04  
Poet Lore 2 800 3,000 125 BAP 07,09 Marvin Galvin,Herman Asarnow
Portland Review 2 500 1,000 30    
Puerto del Sol 2         Lifshin
Quercus Review 2         Raab,X.J. Kennedy,Allison Joseph
Rag Mag 2 250       Bly
Red Rock Review 2 750       Charles H Webb,Addonizio,Wills Barnstone
Redactions 2       Accepts via email Nye,Richard Jordan,Steve Mueske
Roanoke Review 2         Henry Taylor,David Citino,Christina Hutchins
Sal Mimeo 2       BAP 04 Coolidge,Mlinko,George Stanley
Silverfish Review 2 500 1,000 20   Dumahel,Dick Allen,Arguelles
South Carolina Review 2 600 1,000 60    
Southeast Review 2   3,000 30   Charles Wright, Ai
Sou'wester 2 500 3,000 40    
Spillway 2 2,000     Previously published OK Balaban
storySouth 2 0 0 0 Submit via email Barbara Hamby, Jilly Dybka, Judy Loest
Talking River Review 2 600 3,000 60   Laux
Tiferet 2 2 2 2 A Journal of Spiritual Literature Ostriker,Barks,Curbelo
Weber 2       Quarterly of the Contemporary West, submit two copies Strand, McDonald,Kloefkorn
Westview 2         Van Cleave,McDonald,Zydeck
Whiskey Island 2         Perchik,Suárez
Willow Springs 2         Rick Bass,David Lawrence,Sarah Gage
Yemassee 2       No author name on poem pages Van Cleave,Shipley,Dickey
Arabesques Print Review 1 0 0 0 Submit via email Jilly Dybka, Kirby Wright, Roger Humes
Chiron Review 1         Charles Bukowski, William Stafford,Lyn Lifshin
Clark Street Review 1 200 500 100 narrative poetry Laurel Speer
Garnet 1 500 500 50    
Hawai’i Review 1 200 1,000 50    
Mid-America Poetry Review 1          
Palo Alto Review 1 700       Suárez
Pikeville Review 1 500 500 50    
River King Poetry Supplement 1         Chelle Miko,Coral Hull
Salt Fork Review 1 500 500 50    
Sierra Nevada College Review 1 500 500 50   Taylor Graham
Small Spiral Notebook 1 0 0 0 Submit via email Ray Succre, Sandra Ogle, Kathy Davis
Snow Monkey 1         Rebecca Loudon,Chelle Miko,Aaron Belz
South Dakota Review 1 600 500 20 Emphasis on American West  
Southern Indiana Review 1 375 2,500 250   McHugh
Spindrift 1 500     Submit TWO copies of poems  
Wisconsin Review 1          
Slope 0 0 0 0   Manguso,Salamun,Liu,Wier,Revell