2025 Literary Magazine Ranking–Poetry

Below is the 2025 Literary Magazine Ranking for Poetry. To understand the Rationale, Methodology, and Calculation for the Rankings, please go here.

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2025 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

2025 Rank	Magazine	2024 Rank	2025 Score
1	Poetry	2	65.5
2	American Poetry Review	1	61.5
3	Kenyon Review	3	35
4	New England Review	6	33
4	Poem-a-Day	5	33
6	Threepenny Review	4	29.5
7	Yale Review	10	28.5
8	Adroit Journal	17	26
9	Southern Review	8	23.5
10	Paris Review	7	22
11	Copper Nickel	15	21.5
12	Rattle	12	20.5
13	Ploughshares	9	17.5
14	Alice James Books	19	16.5
14	Georgia Review	15	16.5
14	Iowa Review	19	16.5
17	Smartish Pace	11	16
18	Agni	12	14.5
19	New Ohio Review	18	14
19	Pleiades	34	14
21	Alaska Quarterly Review	27	13.5
22	Beloit Poetry Journal	12	13
23	Manhattan Review	19	12
24	Common, The	49	11.5
24	Sun	19	11.5
26	BkMk Press	27	10
26	Gettysburg Review ©	23	10
26	Glacier, The	27	10
26	Here: A Poetry Journal	68	10
26	Torch Literary Arts	68	10
26	Two Sylvias Press	68	10
321	Blackbird	31	9
32	Ecotone	23	9
32	Five Points	38	9
32	Florida Review	33	9
32	Plume	119	9
37	Conduit	34	8.5
37	Image	34	8.5
39	Foglifter	25	8
39	Missouri Review	130	8
39	Southeast Review	130	8
39	The Journal	38	8
43	American Journal of Poetry ©	41	7.5
43	Four Way Books	27	7.5
43	Greensboro Review	140	7.5
43	Massachusetts Review	41	7.5
43	New Criterion	140	7.5
43	Quarterly West	41	7.5
43	Rhino	41	7.5
43	Salmagundi	41	7.5
51	Cincinnati Review	54	7
51	Michigan Quarterly Review	31	7
51	Prairie Schooner	54	7
51	Swamp Pink (fka Crazyhorse)	54	7
55	Hudson Review	51	6.5
55	Palette Poetry	38	6.5
55	Tin House ©	51	6.5
58	Boomerlitmag	54	6
58	Consequence	54	6
58	Copper Canyon Press	34	6
58	Court Green (?)	54	6
58	Four Way Review	54	6
58	World Literature Today	54	6
58	Zephyr Press	54	6
65	Birmingham Poetry Review	26	5.5
65	Hobart	65	5.5
65	Shenandoah	65	5.5
68	Anacapa Review		5
68	Arkansas Review	68	5
68	artangel	68	5
68	Ashland Poetry Press	68	5
68	Bellevue Literary Review		5
68	Bloomsday Literary	68	5
68	Boston Review	41	5
68	Boulevard	68	5
68	Chicago Quarterly Review	68	5
68	Circling Rivers Press	68	5
68	Clarion Magazine	68	5
68	Deep Wild Journal		5
68	Dialogos Books	68	5
68	Fjords Review	68	5
68	Flyway		5
68	Glassworks	68	5
68	Good River Review		5
68	Gordon Square Review	68	5
68	Grain Magazine	68	5
68	Gulf Coast	41	5
68	Heart Poems	68	5
68	Heat		5
68	Hole in the Head Review	68	5
68	Hopper, The		5
68	Iamb	68	5
68	Indianapolis Review	68	5
68	James Dickey Review	68	5
68	Jewish Currents		5
68	Lana Turner	41	5
68	Ligeia Magazine	68	5
68	Light	68	5
68	Lost Horse Press	68	5
68	Manoa	68	5
68	Moon Tide Press	68	5
68	North Meridian Review		5
68	Orion	68	5
68	Parentheses Journal	68	5
68	Pinch		5
68	Pirene’s Fountain	68	5
68	Reed Magazine	68	5
68	River Heron Review	68	5
68	Saginaw (?)	68	5
68	Salt Hill Journal	68	5
68	Sidereal (?)	68	5
68	Sky Island Journal		5
68	Slipstream	68	5
68	Sparks of Calliope		5
68	St. Bridgid Press	68	5
68	Stonecoast Review	68	5
68	Sundog Lit	68	5
68	Terminus	68	5
68	This Broken Shore (?)	68	5
68	Turtle Point Press	68	5
68	Vallum: Contemporary Poetry	68	5
122	Southern Indiana Review	119	4.5
122	ZYZZYVA	119	4.5
124	Arroyo Literary Review (H)	122	3.5
124	Bennington Review	122	3.5
124	I-70 Review	140	3.5
124	LitMag	140	3.5
124	Poetry Northwest	51	3.5
124	Spillway	54	3.5
124	Tar River	122	3.5
124	Tiger Bark Press	122	3.5
124	Virginia Quarterly Review	49	3.5
124	Volta ©	122	3.5
124	Willow Springs	54	3.5
135	American Scholar	65	3
135	Literary Imagination	122	3
135	Narrative	130	3
135	Nepantla (?)	130	3
135	Ninth Letter	122	3
135	Prelude	130	3
135	Tahoma Literary Review	130	3
135	White Pine Press	130	3
143	Abstract Magazine TV	140	2.5
143	Bare Life Review ©	68	2.5
143	Bettering American Poetry (?)	140	2.5
143	Butcher’s Dog (H)	140	2.5
143	Cave Wall	140	2.5
143	Clover ©	68	2.5
143	Codex (?)	130	2.5
143	Constellations	140	2.5
143	Crab Orchard Review	140	2.5
143	Foundry (H)	140	2.5
143	Hawaii Pacific Review	140	2.5
143	Hopkins Review	140	2.5
143	jubilat ©	68	2.5
143	Kweli Journal	140	2.5
143	Lake Effect	140	2.5
143	Love’s Executive Order (?)	68	2.5
143	LSU Press	140	2.5
143	Moonpie Press (H)	140	2.5
143	Nerve Cowboy ©	140	2.5
143	New Orleans Review	140	2.5
143	Nimrod	140	2.5
143	Prism	140	2.5
143	Purple Passion Press	140	2.5
143	Saturnalia Books	140	2.5
143	Seneca Review	140	2.5
143	Shade Journal	140	2.5
143	Sixth Finch	130	2.5
143	Storm Cellar	140	2.5
143	Summerset Review	140	2.5
143	Sycamore Review ©	140	2.5
143	TAB-Journal	140	2.5
143	Thrush	140	2.5
143	Tipton Poetry Journal	140	2.5
143	Tule Review	140	2.5
143	Tupelo Press	68	2.5
143	Twyckenham Notes	68	2.5
143	Washington Square Review	68	2.5
143	Waxwing Literary Journal	68	2.5
143	Wordtemple Press	140	2.5
182	Field ©	68	2
182	Rust and Moth	186	2
184	Grub Street	181	1.5
184	Iron Horse Literary Review	179	1.5
184	MIZNA	181	1.5
184	River Styx	181	1.5
184	Salamander	179	1.5
189	3: A Taos Press	186	1
189	A Public Space	186	1
189	Adirondack Review (?)	186	1
189	Airlie Press	186	1
189	Arts & Letters		1
189	Bamboo Ridge Press	186	1
189	Boiler, The		1
189	Brilliant Corners		1
189	Broadsided Press	186	1
189	Catamaran		1
189	Cherry Tree Magazine	186	1
189	Coal City Review		1
189	Colorado Review	181	1
189	Columbia Review	186	1
189	Cortland Review	186	1
189	Cultural Daily	186	1
189	Delta Poetry Review	186	1
189	Denver Quarterly	186	1
189	Driftwood		1
189	Empty Bowl	186	1
189	Evening Street Review		1
189	Fine Print Press		1
189	Gertrude ©	186	1
189	Glass, A Journal of Poetry ©	186	1
189	Good Life Review	186	1
189	Grayson Books	186	1
189	Guernica	186	1
189	Halcyone	186	1
189	Honey Literary	186	1
189	Hong Kong Review	186	1
189	Ibbetson Street Press	186	1
189	Ilanot Review	186	1
189	Inverted Syntax	186	1
189	Jersey Devil		1
189	June Road Press	186	1
189	Lascaux Review	186	1
189	Leon Literary Review	186	1
189	Los Angeles Jewish Journal	186	1
189	Matter (?)	186	1
189	Mercer Univ. Press	186	1
189	Mississippi Review	186	1
189	Modern Haiku	186	1
189	New Poetry in Translation (?)	186	1
189	Night Heron Barks		1
189	Okay Donkey		1
189	Orange Blossom Review	186	1
189	Pangyrus	186	1
189	Persea Books	186	1
189	Pitt Poetry Series	186	1
189	Quarry, The	186	1
189	Radar Poetry	186	1
189	Red Wheelbarrow	186	1
189	River Mouth Review ©	186	1
189	Roadrunner Review	186	1
189	Sarabande Books		1
189	Sheila-Na-Gig	186	1
189	Sixteen Rivers	186	1
189	Split Lip	186	1
189	Sugar House Review	122	1
189	Sundress Publications	186	1
189	Terrain	186	1
189	Third Coast	186	1
189	Trio House Press	186	1
189	TriQuarterly		1
189	Upstreet ©	186	1
189	Verse Daily	186	1
189	Vox Populi	186	1
189	West Branch	186	1
189	Wordfarm	186	1
258	Academy of American Poets	246	0.5
258	Awl ©	130	0.5
258	Bauhan Publshing	246	0.5
258	Believer	246	0.5
258	BOA Editions	246	0.5
258	Chinquapin Literary Magazine	246	0.5
258	Chiron Review	246	0.5
258	Cimarron Review	246	0.5
258	Cleveland State Univ. Poetry Ctr.	246	0.5
258	Cossack Review (?)	246	0.5
258	Cutbank	246	0.5
258	Enizagam (?)	246	0.5
258	Epoch	246	0.5
258	Exit 7	246	0.5
258	Great Weather for Media	246	0.5
258	Gulf Stream	246	0.5
258	Gun Powder Press	246	0.5
258	Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review	246	0.5
258	Heart ©	246	0.5
258	Hotel Amerika	246	0.5
258	Hunger Mountain	246	0.5
258	Indiana Review	181	0.5
258	Jai-Alai (?)	246	0.5
258	Lake, The	246	0.5
258	Little Patuxent Review	246	0.5
258	Louisiana Literature	246	0.5
258	McNeese Review	246	0.5
258	Meadow, The	246	0.5
258	New Letters	186	0.5
258	New South	186	0.5
258	North American Review	246	0.5
258	Offing	246	0.5
258	OmniVerse	246	0.5
258	One Throne (H)	246	0.5
258	Pembroke Magazine	186	0.5
258	Pluck (?)	246	0.5
258	Poet Lore	246	0.5
258	Poetry South	246	0.5
258	Porkbelly Press	246	0.5
258	Portland Review	186	0.5
258	QWERTY	246	0.5
258	Radius (?)	246	0.5
258	Raleigh Review	246	0.5
258	Rove ©	246	0.5
258	Rumpus	246	0.5
258	Saranac Review	246	0.5
258	Scablands Books (?)	246	0.5
258	Springhouse (?)	246	0.5
258	Tupelo Quarterly	246	0.5
258	Upstairs at Duroc (?)	246	0.5
258	Valley Voices (?)	186	0.5
258	Yarn ©	246	0.5
258	Zone 3	246	0.5

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