Ballast Journal
Open now for nonfiction and poetry.
Last checkedBallast Journal is an online quarterly that publishes poetry and poetry-related reviews and critical or lyric essays.
Response time info: within three months, often much sooner
Read the full guidelines at ballastjournal.com↗Submission calls
Always open and free to reviews of poetry or by poets that engage in academic inquiry, explication, or critique, operate as lyric essays, or embody poetic excesses.
Always open and free. Submit three to five poems in one document, with each poem beginning on a new page; maximum 15 pages. Ballast welcomes long, concrete, verbivocovisual, translated, co-authored, and experimental poems, and does not consider previously published, discriminatory, or generative-AI-assisted work.
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