2023 Literary Magazine Ranking — Poetry

Below is the 2023 Literary Magazine Ranking for Poetry. To understand the Rationale, Methodology, and Calculation for the Rankings, please go here.

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2023 Literary Magazine Ranking for Poetry

Note the following:

(H) means that the magazine/press is on hiatus

(?) means that it’s unclear what’s going on with the magazine/press

2023 Rank	Magazine	2022 Rank	2023 Score
1	Poetry	1	73
2	American Poetry Review	2	69
3	Kenyon Review	3	53
4	Poem-a-Day	4	38.5
5	Threepenny Review	5	38
6	New England Review	7	34
7	Paris Review	8	28.5
8	Southern Review	6	28
9	Smartish Pace	9	18.5
10	Beloit Poetry Journal	19	17.5
10	Copper Nickel	11	17.5
10	Georgia Review	16	17.5
13	Yale Review	23	17
14	Gettysburg Review	10	16.5
15	Rattle	12	16
16	Sun	15	14.5
17	Ploughshares	12	12.5
18	Cincinnati Review	18	12
18	Manhattan Review	32	12
20	Copper Canyon Press	19	11.5
20	Hudson Review	17	11.5
20	Poetry Northwest	19	11.5
23	Birmingham Poetry Review	23	11
23	Foglifter	23	11
23	Pleiades	23	11
26	Adroit Journal	32	10.5
26	Ecotone	39	10.5
28	Alaska Quarterly Review	61	10
28	BkMk Press	61	10
28	Blackbird	27	10
31	Michigan Quarterly Review	14	9.5
31	Virginia Quarterly Review	37	9.5
33	New Ohio Review	27	9
34	Spillway	35	8.5
34	Willow Springs	35	8.5
36	Field ©	39	8
36	Five Points	131	8
36	Florida Review	197	8
36	Palette Poetry	39	8
36	Poetry Review	27	8
41	Alice James Books	42	7.5
41	American Journal of Poetry ©	30	7.5
41	Boston Review	30	7.5
41	Conduit	42	7.5
41	Gulf Coast	144	7.5
41	Lana Turner	131	7.5
41	Massachusetts Review	42	7.5
41	Orion	42	7.5
41	Rhino	61	7.5
41	Salmagundi	61	7.5
41	Vallum: Contemporary Poetry	42	7.5
52	Common, The	182	7
52	Plume	50	7
52	ZYZZYVA	37	7
55	Arroyo Literary Review	49	6.5
55	Tin House ©	19	6.5
55	World Literature Today	189	6.5
58	Boomerlitmag	61	6
58	Court Green	61	6
58	Four Way Review	50	6
58	Iowa Review	50	6
58	Literary Imagination	50	6
58	Ninth Letter	50	6
58	Prairie Schooner	48	6
58	Southern Indiana Review	32	6
66	Agni	50	5.5
66	American Scholar	56	5.5
66	Hobart	56	5.5
66	Shenandoah	197	5.5
66	Southeast Review	56	5.5
66	The Journal	56	5.5
72	Abstract Magazine TV (?)	61	5
72	Arkansas Review	61	5
72	Ashland Poetry Press	61	5
72	Bare Life Review	61	5
72	Bettering American Poetry	61	5
72	Bloomsday Literary	61	5
72	Boulevard	61	5
72	Chicago Quarterly Review		5
72	Clover ©	61	5
72	Fjords Review	61	5
72	Four Way Books	61	5
72	Gordon Square Review	61	5
72	Grain Magazine	61	5
72	Heart Poems	61	5
72	Hole in the Head Review	61	5
72	Iamb	61	5
72	Indianapolis Review	61	5
72	jubilat ©	61	5
72	Kweli Journal	61	5
72	Ligeia Magazine	61	5
72	LitMag	61	5
72	Love’s Executive Order (?)	61	5
72	Manoa	61	5
72	New Criterion	61	5
72	Nimrod	61	5
72	Pirene’s Fountain	61	5
72	Reed Magazine	61	5
72	Saturnalia Books	61	5
72	Seneca Review	61	5
72	Shade Journal	61	5
72	Sidereal	61	5
72	Slipstream	61	5
72	St. Bridgid Press	61	5
72	Sugar House Review	42	5
72	Terminus	61	5
72	This Broken Shore (?)	61	5
72	Tupelo Press	61	5
72	Turtle Point Press	61	5
72	Two Sylvias	61	5
72	Twyckenham Notes	61	5
72	Washington Square Review	61	5
72	Waxwing Literary Journal	61	5
72	Wordtemple Press	61	5
72	artangel		5
72	Clarion Magazine		5
72	Here: A Poetry Journal		5
72	James Dickey Review		5
72	Saginaw		5
72	Stonecoast Review		5
121	Tar River	121	4
122	Denver Quarterly	124	3.5
122	Hunger Mountain	124	3.5
122	Ibbetson Street	144	3.5
122	Image	124	3.5
122	Tiger Bark Press	124	3.5
122	Volta ©	124	3.5
122	White Pine Press	124	3.5
129	Awl ©	131	3
129	Codex (?)	131	3
129	Little Star	131	3
129	Missouri Review	131	3
129	Nepantla (?)	131	3
129	Prelude	131	3
129	Salamander	131	3
129	Sixth Finch	131	3
129	Tahoma Literary Review	197	3
138	Account	144	2.5
138	Assaracus (?)	144	2.5
138	Bennington Review	61	2.5
138	Briar Cliff Review	144	2.5
138	Brick	144	2.5
138	Butcher’s Dog	144	2.5
138	Cave Wall	144	2.5
138	Constellations	61	2.5
138	Crab Orchard Review (?)	144	2.5
138	Dunes Review	144	2.5
138	Forklift Ohio (?)	144	2.5
138	Foundry	61	2.5
138	Granta	144	2.5
138	Graywolf Press	144	2.5
138	Greensboro Review	61	2.5
138	Harbour Publishing	144	2.5
138	Hawaii Pacific Review	144	2.5
138	Hopkins Review	61	2.5
138	I-70 Review	61	2.5
138	Lake Effect	61	2.5
138	LSU Press	144	2.5
138	Malahat Review	144	2.5
138	Moonpie Press	61	2.5
138	Muzzle Magazine	144	2.5
138	Nerve Cowboy	61	2.5
138	New Orleans Review	61	2.5
138	Prism	144	2.5
138	Purple Passion Press	144	2.5
138	Quarterly West	144	2.5
138	River Teeth	144	2.5
138	Rupture (fka The Collagist) ©	144	2.5
138	Storm Cellar	144	2.5
138	Summerset Review	144	2.5
138	Sycamore Review	61	2.5
138	TAB-Journal	144	2.5
138	Thrush	144	2.5
138	Tipton Poetry Journal	61	2.5
138	Treelight Books	144	2.5
138	Tule Review	61	2.5
138	Water-Stone Review	144	2.5
138	YesYes Books	144	2.5
179	Iron Horse Literary Review	197	2
179	Narrative	182	2
179	New South	182	2
182	A Public Space	189	1.5
182	Airlie Press	189	1.5
182	Colorado Review	182	1.5
182	Crazyhorse	182	1.5
182	Grub Street	182	1.5
182	Indiana Review	123	1.5
182	MIZNA	182	1.5
182	New Letters	189	1.5
182	Persea Books	189	1.5
182	Poet Lore	189	1.5
182	River Styx	121	1.5
182	Zephyr Press	250	1.5
194	Adirondack Review	197	1
194	Bamboo Ridge	197	1
194	Bauhan Publshing	197	1
194	Birdfeast	197	1
194	Broadsided Press	197	1
194	Cherry Tree Magazine	197	1
194	Columbia Review	197	1
194	Consequence	197	1
194	Cutbank	197	1
194	Delta Poetry Review	197	1
194	Gertrude (H)	197	1
194	Glass, A Journal of Poetry	197	1
194	Good Life Review	197	1
194	Great Weather for Media	197	1
194	Gulf Stream	197	1
194	Halcyone	197	1
194	Hong Kong Review	197	1
194	Hotel Amerika	124	1
194	Leon Literary Review	197	1
194	Little Patuxent Review	197	1
194	Los Angeles Jewish Journal	197	1
194	Matter	197	1
194	Mercer Univ. Press	197	1
194	New Poetry in Translation	197	1
194	Pangyrus	197	1
194	Pembroke Magazine	197	1
194	Pitt Poetry Series	197	1
194	Poetry South	197	1
194	Portland Review	197	1
194	Quarry, The	197	1
194	Radar Poetry	197	1
194	Roadrunner Review	197	1
194	Scablands Books	197	1
194	Sheila-Na-Gig	197	1
194	Sixteen Rivers	197	1
194	Split Lip	197	1
194	Terrain	197	1
194	Third Coast	197	1
194	Trio House Press	197	1
194	Upstreet ©	189	1
194	Valley Voices	197	1
194	Verse Daily	189	1
194	Vox Populi	197	1
194	Wordfarm	197	1
194	Zone 3	197	1
239	Academy of American Poets	250	0.5
239	Believer	197	0.5
239	Black Warrior Review	250	0.5
239	Bloom	250	0.5
239	BOA Editions	56	0.5
239	Chautauqua	250	0.5
239	Chinquapin Literary Magazine	250	0.5
239	Chiron Review	250	0.5
239	Cimarron Review	250	0.5
239	Cleveland State Univ. Poetry Ctr.	250	0.5
239	Clockhouse	250	0.5
239	Construction (?)	250	0.5
239	Cossack Review (?)	250	0.5
239	Enizagam (?)	250	0.5
239	Epoch	250	0.5
239	Evansville Review (H)	250	0.5
239	Exit 7	250	0.5
239	Gun Powder Press	250	0.5
239	Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review	250	0.5
239	Heart ©	197	0.5
239	Jai-Alai (?)	250	0.5
239	Lake, The	197	0.5
239	Louisiana Literature	250	0.5
239	McNeese Review	250	0.5
239	Meadow	250	0.5
239	Mississippi Review		0.5
239	New Madrid (H)	250	0.5
239	Normal School	250	0.5
239	North American Review	197	0.5
239	Offing	250	0.5
239	OmniVerse	197	0.5
239	One Throne (?)	250	0.5
239	Paris American	250	0.5
239	Pluck (?)	250	0.5
239	Porkbelly Press	250	0.5
239	QWERTY	250	0.5
239	Radius (?)	250	0.5
239	Raleigh Review	197	0.5
239	Raritan	250	0.5
239	Rove ©	250	0.5
239	Rumpus	250	0.5
239	Saranac Review	250	0.5
239	Silk Road	250	0.5
239	Solstice	250	0.5
239	Springhouse (?)	250	0.5
239	Tupelo Quarterly	250	0.5
239	University of Pittsburgh Press	250	0.5
239	Upstairs at Duroc	250	0.5
239	Verse Magazine ©	250	0.5
239	Yarn ©	250	0.5

Comments

Vee says:

March 27, 2023 at 10:17 am

Thanks for compiling this, a big help! Link for “American Journal of Poetry” seems to be broken.

1. Cliff says:
  
  March 27, 2023 at 10:31 am
  
  Thanks. Looks like they are closed. I’ll investigate and update.
  
Perry says:

April 19, 2023 at 8:18 pm

Thanks for this!

Laura Caruso-Kofoid says:

June 17, 2023 at 2:11 pm

Thank you for the work you’ve done. didn’t find Catamaran?

1. Cliff says:
  
  June 17, 2023 at 2:24 pm
  
  You’ll find Catamaran on both the Fiction and Non-fiction lists. They aren’t on the poetry list because they haven’t won a Puschart Prize or Special Mention in Poetry in the last 10 years.
  
Judith McKenzie says:

July 7, 2023 at 9:26 pm

Are you sure Twykenham Notes is still active? There have been no changes on their website (nor responses to emails) in well over a year….??

1. Cliff says:
  
  July 7, 2023 at 10:18 pm
  
  No, I’m not sure, although at the time this list was posted they were active on Twitter, if not on their website. I’ll keep an eye on it. Thank you.
  
Charles says:

July 23, 2023 at 2:54 pm

Thanks for these lists. River Teeth appears to only accept creative nonfiction as far as I can tell.

1. Cliff says:
  
  July 23, 2023 at 4:27 pm
  
  Thank you for pointing that out. Looking at the 2017 Pushcart Prize volume, I see that the piece from River Teeth that was awarded a Pushcart Prize LOOKS like poetry (short paragraphs separated by extra white space so that they look like stanzas) but is in fact non-fiction. I’ll be correcting that.
  
Vee says:

September 6, 2023 at 10:35 am

Popping back in, Spillway seems to have closed? Link is broken.

1. Cliff says:
  
  September 6, 2023 at 10:41 am
  
  Thanks. Looks like they’ve changed addresses when combining with another press: https://www.moontidepress.com/spillway
  I’ll update the link.
  
John Henry Adames says:

March 6, 2024 at 8:50 pm

Dear Mr Garstrang,

I find this to be incredibly useful. I have been following the submission approach you suggest but without your wonderful, exhaustive list.

1. Cliff says:
  
  March 6, 2024 at 9:00 pm
  
  I’m glad it’s helpful. Be sure to check out the updated 2024 rankings.

Clifford Garstang

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