Subgenres: Formal Poetry
The Wax Paper
The Wax Paper is a broadsheet publication open to all forms of written word, imagery, and collected conversation.
Foundlings Press
Foundlings seeks to publish—in paper and ink—the best writing. The press takes its ethic and aesthetic from the Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church. Not all of it; just Canon 1115, which closes with the provoking observation that “Foundlings... Read more
akinoga press
akinoga press is a Baltimore-based micro press that specialzes in hand-bound chapbooks of a spacious/minimalist/austere flavor, though on the lookout for anything small, quiet, odd, easily-missed, and a hundred percent needs to be read.
Eastern Structures
Eastern Structures picks up where Contemporary Ghazals left off, publishing English-language examples of the Middle Eastern form, but now also Korean sijo and Japanese tanka—the latter rendered exclusively in the five-seven-five... Read more
Chiron Review
Chiron Review presents the widest possible range of contemporary creative writing—fiction and nonfiction, traditional and off-beat, in a perfect-bound, softcover format, including art and photography. It has published many well-known... Read more
MORIA
MORIA is a national online literary magazine with an all-student editorial board, based at Woodbury University in greater Los Angeles. It accepts poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from emerging and established writers in the... Read more
Diode Editions
Diode Editions is an independent press based in Doha, Qatar, and Richmond, Virginia. Editor in chief Patty Paine founded the press in 2012 as an offshoot of diode poetry journal. The press publishes poetry, chapbooks, and poetry-related... Read more
SWWIM Every Day
Founded and edited by a diverse, award-winning team of female poets, SWWIM Every Day publishes poems every weekday by cis/trans women, nonbinary, intersex, and other gender-expansive writers of all ages, races, ethnicities, cultures,... Read more
Sky Island Journal
Sky Island Journal is an independent, international, free-access literary journal; it is dedicated to discovering and publishing the finest original poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. The magazine publishes accomplished,... Read more