Writing Prompts from One Word and Poetry Magazines
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The Are You Outside the Lines blog visited the One Word website I recommended and wrote in response to a prompt. Yesterday, I visited One Word and wrote in response to the word “mantle.” I went back today to get another word, but the word is still “mantle.” Hmmm.
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What magazines do you receive?
I’m getting Cimarron Review, Bloomsbury Review, Ninth Letter, Virginia Quarterly Review, The New Yorker and some others. The New Yorker hardly needs my support, but there you go. I am morally opposed to The Atlantic, because they do not publish enough poetry. The amount of poetry they publish withered to nearly nothing the last time I checked. That’s about the time I decided to subscribe only to magazines that offered a large poetry presence. You could easily tell me how few poems The New Yorker publishes. Well, The New Yorker is The New Yorker. The prose is also good.
Some other magazines that invite my interest include Southwest Review, Barn Owl Review, and Pebble Lake Review to name a few. I’m only including magazines one can subscribe to, so that leaves out many excellent online magazines.
What magazines do you like? Please let us know in the comments.
- August 24th
I am currently subscribed to 32 Poems (though my sub may have run out, I need to double-check), The Journal, Crab Orchard Review, Pleiades, Boulevard, and The Laurel Review. I usually rotate each year which journals I subscribe to, to spread the love around. I also buy single issues at bookstores and readings. I’m almost 2 years behind on journal-reading right now, but I don’t let that stop me from buying =)
Next on my journal-reading list is Black Warrior Review from Fall/Winter 2006.
I subscribe to Forklift, Ohio, 32 Poems (not sure if I’m currently current), Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, New England Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cave Wall, The Ledge, American Poetry Review, and jubilat. I switch off to other magazines each year since there are others I like.
I currently get 5AM, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Copper Nickel, Rattle, and The Cimarron Review. However, this fall, I want to also try The Iowa Review, Colorado Review and West Branch.
Oops! I also get Ploughshares and 32 Poems (How could I forget!?)
I forgot at least one, too! I also get Rattle.
Sally, Forklift, Ohio has always intrigued me. Maybe it’s because the name is so unusual. One of these days, I’ll get around to getting a copy.
can’t remember what’s current and what’s run out. But, in the last two years:
32 Poems, Pleiades, Barn Owl, Harvard Review, Beloit, Cimarron, Rattle, Crazyhorse,
Crab Creek, Shenandoah (a longtime favorite). I’m very limited in funds and try to spread the wealth(!!!???) around too. Past loves: The Georgia Review, Poet Lore, New England Review, Green Mountain Review, Calyx, Alaska Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Ploughshares, Margie (the New Yorker but that’s in a different category)
Next, I want to try West Branch.
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American Poetry Review, Poetry, Poets & Writers.
Need to add more to my list for next year but right now: Main Street Rag, Iodine Poetry Journal, Cave Wall, River Styx, bear creek haiku, INCH, Poetry and The Greensboro Review.
Or switch out some. I’m undecided if I’m going to keep them all
When I lives in Boston (and Florida before that..and Boston before that…) I had a policy that I wouldn’t really subscribe to lit journals (except in the last year I began a 32 Poems subscription). My rationale was that it gave me an instant reason to go straight to my independent bookstores and buy the lit mags I wanted from them, as well as a book or two if I found something I liked.
About a month ago, though, I moved to Columbia, MO, to begin a PhD program in creative writing & literature. There is no independent bookstore out here; just the university’s bookstore and, well, Barnes & Noble. I don’t have much free money (I moved. I bought a car. It’s all so expensive…), but once my teaching paychecks start coming in, I have to select a couple from the following to subscribe to: Barn Owl Review (I love it! And one of my poems will appear!), Pleiades, New England Review, Subtropics, Lyric Poetry Review, Greensboro Review, New Letters, Mississippi Review, Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Review, and AGNI.
I plan to subscribe to 3 or 4 of those.