2013 Pushcart Prize Ranking of Literary Magazines — Poetry

Pushcart 2013I’m pleased to present the 2013 Pushcart Prize Rankings for Poetry. There hasn’t been much change at the top of the rankings this year. To see how things stood in 2012, go here.

For an explanation of the methodology, and to see the Fiction rankings for 2013, go here. For the Nonfiction rankings, go here.

 

 

 

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2013 Pushcart Prize Ranking of Literary Magazines — Poetry

2013

Magazine

2013 Score

1

Poetry

112

2

American Poetry Review

75

3

Kenyon Review

70

4

Ploughshares

57

5

Georgia Review

51

6

Southern Review

39

7

Threepenny Review

38

8

New England Review

37

9

Virginia Quarterly Review

36

10

Gettysburg Review

34

11

TriQuarterly

33

12

Field

32

13

Five Points

30

14

BOA Editions

29

15

Tin House

26

16

Shenandoah

21

17

Alice James Books

20

17

New Ohio Review

20

17

Yale Review

20

20

Michigan Quarterly Review

19

21

Agni

18

22

American Scholar

17

22

Cincinnati Review

17

24

Blackbird

16

24

Southern Poetry Review

16

26

Literary Imagination

15

26

The Journal

15

28

Crazyhorse

14

28

Image

14

30

Colorado Review

13

31

Barrow Street

12

31

Hotel Amerika

12

31

Rattle

12

31

Runes ©

12

35

Canary

11

35

Epoch

11

35

Lake Effect

11

35

Missouri Review

11

35

New American Writing

11

35

New Criterion

11

35

New Letters

11

35

Rivendell ©

11

35

Smartish Pace

11

35

Spillway

11

35

West Branch

11

46

Alaska Quarterly Review

10

46

Cue Editions

10

46

Ecotone

10

46

Great River Review

10

46

Green Mountains Review

10

46

Notre Dame Review

10

46

River Styx

10

46

Sugar House Review

10

46

Turnrow

10

46

Water-Stone Review

10

46

Western Humanities Review

10

57

Copper Canyon Press

8

57

Iowa Review

8

57

Massachusetts Review

8

57

Paris Review

8

57

Pleiades

8

62

5 a.m.

7

62

Connecticut Review

7

62

jubilat

7

62

Ninth Letter

7

62

North American Review

7

62

Salamander

7

62

Sarabande Books

7

62

Wave Books

7

70

Atlanta Review

6

70

Bloom

6

70

Cimarron Review

6

70

Crowd © (?)

6

70

Gulf Coast

6

70

Harvard Review

6

70

Indiana Review

6

70

Margie ©

6

70

New Issues Poetry and Prose

6

70

Paterson Literary Review

6

70

Perugia Press

6

70

Poems & Plays

6

70

Poetry International

6

70

Poetry Review

6

70

Seneca Review

6

70

Subtropics

6

70

Sun

6

70

Tupelo Press

6

88

Anhinga Press

5

88

Arroyo Literary Review

5

88

Blueline

5

88

Café Review

5

88

Chattahoochee Review

5

88

Chautauqua

5

88

Cleveland State Univ. Poetry Ctr.

5

88

Court Green

5

88

Curbstone Press

5

88

Cypher Books

5

88

Dogwood

5

88

Eastern Wash. Univ. Press ©

5

88

Eleven Eleven

5

88

Epiphany

5

88

Fence

5

88

Fifth Wednesday

5

88

Five Fingers Review

5

88

Grand Street ©

5

88

Graywolf Press

5

88

Hollyridge Press

5

88

Hudson Review

5

88

Idaho Review

5

88

Laurel Poetry Collective

5

88

Little Patuxent Review

5

88

Lyric (?)

5

88

Manhattan Review

5

88

Meridian

5

88

Mid American Review

5

88

MIZNA

5

88

National Poetry Review

5

88

Nebraska Poets Calendar

5

88

New Orleans Review

5

88

New South Books

5

88

New Verse News

5

88

OCHO

5

88

Orion

5

88

Painted Bride Quarterly

5

88

Parnassus: Poetry in Review

5

88

Partisan Review ©

5

88

Pebble Lake Review

5

88

Pilot Light

5

88

Pleasure Boat Studio

5

88

Poetry Atlanta Press

5

88

Poetry Northwest

5

88

Provincetown Arts

5

88

Quiddity

5

88

Sixth Finch

5

88

Snake Nation Review

5

88

Spork

5

88

Think Journal

5

88

Third Coast

5

88

Tikkun

5

88

Toadlily Press

5

88

Triplopia (?)

5

88

Utah State University Press

5

88

Vallum: Contemporary Poetry

5

88

Verse Wisconsin

5

88

World Literature Today

5

88

Zone 3

5

147

Beloit Poetry Journal

4

147

Southwest Review

4

149

Black Warrior Review

3

149

Boulevard

3

149

Raritan

3

149

University of Pittsburgh Press

3

153

Autumn House

2

153

Four Way Books

2

153

Greensboro Review

2

153

Healing Muse

2

153

Pinch

2

153

PMS

2

153

Prairie Schooner

2

160

“88”

1

160

Able Muse

1

160

Arsenic Lobster

1

160

Barefoot Muse

1

160

Bat City

1

160

Believer

1

160

Bellevue Literary Review

1

160

Blue Earth Review

1

160

Boston Review

1

160

Brilliant Corners

1

160

Callaloo

1

160

Calyx

1

160

Cape Cod Voice (?)

1

160

Cardinal Points

1

160

Columbia Poetry Review

1

160

Crab Creek Review

1

160

Daedalus

1

160

Drunken Boat

1

160

Eleventh Muse

1

160

Examined Life (?)

1

160

First Intensity

1

160

Formalist ©

1

160

Fort Hemlock Press

1

160

Free Lunch ©

1

160

Frostproof Review ©

1

160

Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review

1

160

Hanging Loose

1

160

Harpur Palate

1

160

Haven Chronicles (?)

1

160

Hayden’s Ferry

1

160

Hollins Critic

1

160

Hopkins Review

1

160

Hunger Mountain

1

160

InDigest

1

160

Iris

1

160

Kentuckians for the Commonwealth

1

160

Lana Turner

1

160

Leaping Dog Press

1

160

Live Mag!

1

160

Long Island Quarterly

1

160

Lost Hills Books

1

160

Lynx House Press (?)

1

160

Main Street Rag

1

160

MAKE

1

160

McSweeney’s

1

160

MS.

1

160

Natural Bridge

1

160

New Delta Review

1

160

New Haven Review

1

160

Nimrod

1

160

November 3rd Club

1

160

Omnidawn Publishing

1

160

Paper Street © (?)

1

160

Pearl

1

160

Phoebe

1

160

Poetry 180

1

160

Poetry Flash

1

160

Pool

1

160

Quarterly West

1

160

Rhino

1

160

River City (?)

1

160

Salmagundi

1

160

Seattle Review

1

160

Sentence

1

160

Sewanee Review

1

160

Sink Review

1

160

Speakeasy ©

1

160

Specs

1

160

Spoon River Review

1

160

Thunder’s Mouth Press ©

1

160

TriQuarterly Books

1

160

University of Akron Press

1

160

Upstreet

1

160

Valparaiso Poetry Review

1

160

War, Literature and The Arts

1

160

Willow Springs

1

160

Wordcraft of Oregon

1

160

Xantippe (?)

1

160

ZYZZYVA

1

 

About the author

I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.

Comments

  1. Glad to see “Poetry” at the top of this list. They: Christian Wiman, Don Share, and those before them deserve to be there. I recommend buying there new book: Open Door, 100 Years, 100 Poems.

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