National Poetry Month (April): Journals & Magazines

The American Poetry Review magazine was founded in 1972 and is dedicated to reaching a worldwide audience with a diverse array of contemporary poetry and literary prose.

Focuses on Anglo-Canadian poetry and poetry-related subjects.

An American poetry magazine established in 1950 at Beloit College. Includes work from new writers, publishes reviews, & includes occasional chapbooks.

Showcases contributions from the best of each BICPC conference along with occasional articles, reviews and interviews.

Columbia Journal was founded in 1977 by students in the Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate Writing program. Since then, we’ve featured work from Nobel laureates and unknowns, National Book Award winners and newcomers. Columbia Journal seeks to showcase the best poetry, nonfiction, fiction, translation and visual art.

Publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, short scripts, and visual art that explores the many complicated facets of the word environment.

The Hiram Poetry Review is published annually by the English Department at Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio. In compiling each issue, we seek to find the odd work of the erratic genius, to discover the undiscovered, and to advance the careers of the accomplished poet.

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Articles and poems are in Spanish. Sponsored by the Department of Hispanic Studies at Texas A & M University.

Poems from contemporary writers in all languages, with facing English translations.

The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry centres on the poetic writings that have appeared in Britain and Ireland since the late 1950s under various categorizations. These include works that are avant-garde, underground, linguistically innovative, second-wave Modernist, non-mainstream, the British Poetry Revival, the parallel tradition, formally innovative, neo-modernist and experimental, while also including the Cambridge School, the London School, concrete poetry, and performance writing. All of these terms have been variously adopted and contested in anthologies and the journal extends scholarly discussion of the ongoing importance of innovative poetic styles and techniques within British and Irish literature.

Publishes research on the therapeutic, educational, and community-building use of literary arts, journal therapy, creative writing, and storytelling.

MPT brings together brings the best new poetry, essays and reviews from around the world. We aim to give voice to the silenced, exiled and excluded, and create a diverse and creative community of translators, poets and readers.

NELLE celebrates and publishes the best, most innovative writing by women. The journal is a University of Alabama at Birmingham publication staffed by faculty and students and funded by the English Department and the College of Arts and Sciences. It was founded by Linda Frost in 2001 under the title poemmemoirstory, and edited by Kerry Madden from 2010-2017. The journal was renamed NELLE for its 2018 issue edited by Lauren Slaughter.

Publishes cutting-edge South African poetry, reviews and interviews.

Poetry, fiction criticism and art by known and unknown writers and artists published for a general audience.

An English language journal of poetry and literary criticism published in India. lt appears each January and July to promote poetry and international understanding through poetry. Critical articles on various genres of literature are included.

Founded in Chicago by Harriet Monroe in 1912, Poetry is the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world. Monroe’s Open Door policy, set forth in volume 1 of the magazine, remains the most succinct statement of Poetry’s mission: to print the best contemporary poetry, of any style, genre, or approach.

An online poetry publication for the 21st century.

Aims to expand the role and scope of poetry as an art.

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1959 - 2002
2010 - Present

Literary theory and analysis. Articles are in French.

Published biannually in March and October, Sirena is an international and multilingual journal of poety and art, publishing the original work of poets and artists from around the globe. In the case of poetry, each work appears in its original language as well as in translation into Spanish and English, and it includes works by well established poets. The journal also publishes critical essays on poetry, art, and translation studies, as well as reviews of books.

Founded in 1962 to further the aesthetic study of the poetry of the Victorian period (1830-1914) in Britain, Victorian Poetry today publishes articles from a broad range of theoretical/critical angles, including but not confined to new historicism, feminism, and social/cultural issues. The journal has expanded its purview from the major figures of Victorian England (Tennyson, Browning, the Rossettis, etc.) to a wider compass of poets of all classes and gender indentifications in nineteenth-century Britain and the Commonwealth.