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Mary Elizabeth Thompson

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Magazines that Pay for Poetry

I have compiled a list of magazines that buy poetry. Pay rates range from a tiny $1 per poem to as much as $100 or more.

To be included on my list the magazine had to:

  • 1. have a functioning website and provide guidelines for writers online
  • 2. be published in the United States
  • 3. not be of a specialty market I'd never be interested in reading or writing for (for example, political magazines, children's magazines, etc)
  • 4. offer actual payments for poetry, not just prizes
  • 5. not charge a reading fee

If you know of additional paying poetry markets that fit these guidelines, please write to me. Also, if you find any of these markets no longer pay for poetry or have changed links, please let me know.


Acorn (haiku)

Antietam Review

The Antioch Review

The Artful Dodge

The Atlantic Monthly

Barnwood Magazine

The Bear Deluxe

Black Warrior Review

Boulevard Magazine

Chattahoochee Review

The Colorado Review

Confrontation Magazine

Flesh and Blood (dark fantasy)

The Gettysburg Review

In The Family (GLBT)

The Indiana Review

The Iowa Review

The Kenyon Review

The Magazine for Speculative Poetry (scifi, horror)

The Massachusetts Review

Michigan Quarterly Review

Miller's Pond

Modern Haiku (haiku)

Mythic Delirium (scifi, horror, fantasy, surreal)

The New England Review

North American Review

North Carolina Literary Review

Ploughshares

Poetry Magazine

Quarterly West

The Southern Review

The Southwest Review

Space and Time Magazine

SPS Studios (Blue Mountain Arts Greeting Cards)

The Sun Review

Tampa Review

Thema (themes)

The Threepenny Review

Weird Tales (fantasy and horror)

Western Humanities Review


For more information, see the Links for Writers.