2014 Pushcart Prize Ranking of Literary Magazines — Poetry

Note: the 2015 Rankings for Poetry are now available. Go here.

The 2014 Pushcart Prize Ranking of Literary Magazines for Poetry is set forth below.

To see the 2014 Fiction Ranking and to learn about my methodology, go here.

To see the 2014 Nonfiction Ranking, go here.

For comparisons, see the the 2013 Poetry Ranking here.

There isn’t a whole new to learn from the list this year. Poetry maintains a sizable lead. Kenyon and American Poetry Review switch places. It’s nice to see a couple of online journals, like Collagist, show up on the list for the first time.

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Poetry Rankings for 2014:

2014	Magazine	2014 Score
1	Poetry	107
2	Kenyon Review	74
3	American Poetry Review	68
4	Ploughshares	63
5	Georgia Review	43
5	Threepenny Review	43
7	New England Review	42
8	Virginia Quarterly Review	36
9	Southern Review	33
10	Field	32
11	Five Points	30
12	BOA Editions	29
12	Gettysburg Review	29
14	Poetry Review	27
14	TriQuarterly	27
16	Tin House	26
17	Cincinnati Review	23
18	Alice James Books	21
19	New Ohio Review	20
19	Yale Review	20
21	Michigan Quarterly Review	19
22	Agni	18
23	American Scholar	17
24	Blackbird	16
24	Southern Poetry Review	16
26	Hudson Review	15
26	Poetry Northwest	15
26	Sugar House Review	15
26	The Journal	15
26	Water-Stone Review	15
31	New Letters	12
31	Rattle	12
31	Runes ©	12
34	Barrow Street	11
34	Canary	11
34	Lake Effect	11
34	New American Writing	11
34	Shenandoah	11
34	Smartish Pace	11
34	Spillway	11
41	Alaska Quarterly Review	10
41	Cue Editions	10
41	Ecotone	10
41	Great River Review	10
41	Green Mountains Review	10
41	Literary Imagination	10
41	Notre Dame Review	10
41	Orion	10
41	Rivendell ©	10
41	River Styx	10
41	Turnrow	10
41	West Branch	10
53	Copper Canyon Press	9
53	Crazyhorse	9
53	Image	9
56	Hotel Amerika	8
56	Iowa Review	8
56	Massachusetts Review	8
56	Paris Review	8
60	5 a.m.	7
60	Connecticut Review	7
60	Ninth Letter	7
60	North American Review	7
60	Salamander	7
60	Sarabande Books	7
60	Wave Books	7
67	Atlanta Review	6
67	Bloom	6
67	Chautauqua	6
67	Cimarron Review	6
67	Crowd © (?)	6
67	Epoch	6
67	Gulf Coast	6
67	Harvard Review	6
67	Little Patuxent Review	6
67	Missouri Review	6
67	New Criterion	6
67	New Issues Poetry and Prose	6
67	Perugia Press	6
67	Pleiades	6
67	Poems & Plays	6
67	Poetry International	6
67	Subtropics	6
67	Sun	6
67	Tupelo Press	6
67	Willow Springs	6
67	ZYZZYVA	6
67	Paterson Literary Review	6
89	Anhinga Press	5
89	Arroyo Literary Review	5
89	Blueline	5
89	Briar Cliff Review	5
89	Chattahoochee Review	5
89	Cleveland State Univ. Poetry Ctr.	5
89	Colorado Review	5
89	Court Green	5
89	Curbstone Press	5
89	Cypher Books	5
89	Denver Quarterly	5
89	Dogwood	5
89	Eastern Wash. Univ. Press ©	5
89	Eleven Eleven	5
89	Epiphany	5
89	Fifth Wednesday	5
89	Five Fingers Review	5
89	Grand Street ©	5
89	Graywolf Press	5
89	Hollyridge Press	5
89	Hunger Mountain	5
89	Idaho Review	5
89	Indiana Review	5
89	Laurel Poetry Collective	5
89	Lyric (?)	5
89	Margie ©	5
89	Meridian	5
89	Mid American Review	5
89	National Poetry Review	5
89	New Orleans Review	5
89	New South Books	5
89	OCHO	5
89	Parnassus: Poetry in Review	5
89	Pebble Lake Review	5
89	Pleasure Boat Studio	5
89	Poetry Atlanta Press	5
89	Provincetown Arts	5
89	Quiddity	5
89	Sixth Finch	5
89	Snake Nation Review	5
89	Spork	5
89	Think Journal	5
89	Third Coast	5
89	Tikkun	5
89	Toadlily Press	5
89	Triplopia (?)	5
89	Utah State University Press	5
89	Vallum: Contemporary Poetry	5
89	Verse Wisconsin	5
89	Western Humanities Review	5
89	World Literature Today	5
89	Zone 3	5
89	Forklift Ohio	5
89	Ibbetson Street	5
89	Muzzle Magazine	5
89	Dunes Review	5
89	Assaracus	5
89	Treelight Books	5
89	Collagist	5
89	Harbour Publishing	5
89	Southern Indiana Review	5
89	Yes, Yes Books	5
89	Pilot Light	5
89	New Verse News	5
89	Café Review	5
89	Manhattan Review	5
89	Nebraska Poets Calendar	5
156	Beloit Poetry Journal	4
156	Raritan	4
156	Southwest Review	4
156	University of Pittsburgh Press	4
160	Boulevard	3
161	Autumn House	2
161	Four Way Books	2
161	Greensboro Review	2
161	Healing Muse	2
161	Pinch	2
161	PMS	2
161	Prairie Schooner	2
168	A Public Space	1
168	Barefoot Muse	1
168	Bat City	1
168	Bellevue Literary Review	1
168	Black Warrior Review	1
168	Blue Earth Review	1
168	Boston Review	1
168	Brilliant Corners	1
168	Callaloo	1
168	Calyx	1
168	Cape Cod Voice (?)	1
168	Columbia Poetry Review	1
168	Crab Creek Review	1
168	Drunken Boat	1
168	Eleventh Muse	1
168	Fort Hemlock Press	1
168	Free Lunch ©	1
168	Frostproof Review ©	1
168	Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review	1
168	Hanging Loose	1
168	Harpur Palate	1
168	Haven Chronicles (?)	1
168	Hayden’s Ferry	1
168	Hollins Critic	1
168	Hopkins Review	1
168	InDigest	1
168	Iris	1
168	jubilat	1
168	Kentuckians for the Commonwealth	1
168	Leaping Dog Press	1
168	Little Star	1
168	Live Mag!	1
168	Long Island Quarterly	1
168	Lost Hills Books	1
168	Lynx House Press (?)	1
168	Main Street Rag	1
168	McSweeney’s	1
168	MS.	1
168	Natural Bridge	1
168	New Delta Review	1
168	New Haven Review	1
168	Nimrod	1
168	November 3rd Club	1
168	Omnidawn Publishing	1
168	Paper Street © (?)	1
168	Pearl	1
168	Phoebe	1
168	Poetry 180	1
168	Poetry Flash	1
168	Quarterly West	1
168	Rhino	1
168	Salmagundi	1
168	Seattle Review	1
168	Sentence	1
168	Speakeasy ©	1
168	Specs	1
168	Spoon River Review	1
168	Thunder’s Mouth Press ©	1
168	University of Akron Press	1
168	Upstreet	1
168	Valparaiso Poetry Review	1
168	War, Literature and The Arts	1
168	Wordcraft of Oregon	1
168	Xantippe (?)	1
168	Verse Magazine	1
168	Normal School	1
168	Poet Lore	1
168	Silk Road	1
168	New South	1
168	Evansville Review	1
168	Birdfeast	1
168	New Madrid	1
168	Airlie Press	1
168	Zephyr Press	1
168	Persea Books	1
168	Examined Life	1
168	Cardinal Points	1
168	Able Muse	1
168	Sink Review	1
168	Believer	1
168	Lana Turner	1
168	Make	1