
Subgenres: Formal Poetry


Foundlings Press
Foundlings seeks to publish—in paper and ink—the best writing. The press takes its ethic and aesthetic from the Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church. Not all of it; just Canon 1115, which closes with the provoking observation that “Foundlings... Read more
akinoga press
akinoga press is a Baltimore-based micro press that specialzes in hand-bound chapbooks of a spacious/minimalist/austere flavor, though on the lookout for anything small, quiet, odd, easily-missed, and a hundred percent needs to be read.

Literary Heist
Literary Heist gives a voice to transformative writers and aims to democratize the literary and art world. The editors are looking to showcase good work that comes from new and existing writers and artists.

Eastern Structures
Eastern Structures picks up where Contemporary Ghazals left off, publishing English-language examples of the Middle Eastern form, but now also Korean sijo and Japanese tanka—the latter rendered exclusively in the five-seven-five... Read more

Chiron Review
Chiron Review presents the widest possible range of contemporary creative writing—fiction and nonfiction, traditional and off-beat, in a perfect-bound, softcover format, including art and photography. It has published many well-known... Read more

MORIA
MORIA is a national online literary magazine with an all-student editorial board, based at Woodbury University in greater Los Angeles. It accepts poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from emerging and established writers in the... Read more

Diode Editions
SWWIM Every Day
Founded and edited by a diverse, award-winning team of female poets, SWWIM Every Day publishes poems every weekday by cis/trans women, nonbinary, intersex, and other gender-expansive writers of all ages, races, ethnicities, cultures,... Read more

Sky Island Journal
Sky Island Journal is an independent, international, free-access literary journal; it is dedicated to discovering and publishing the finest original poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. The magazine publishes accomplished,... Read more



