Below is the 2016 Literary Magazine Rankings for Poetry. For an explanation of the methodology, go here.
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2016
Magazine
2015
2016 Score
1
Kenyon Review
1
77
2
Poetry
2
75
3
American Poetry Review
4
67
4
Ploughshares
3
58
5
Threepenny Review
5
55
6
New England Review
6
46
7
Georgia Review
7
41
8
Field
8
33
8
Gettysburg Review
9
33
8
Southern Review
16
33
11
Five Points
15
30
12
Poetry Review
12
27
12
Virginia Quarterly Review
9
27
14
BOA Editions
11
23
14
Cincinnati Review
16
23
14
Paris Review
32
23
17
Tin House
14
22
18
Spillway
26
21
19
Agni
16
20
19
New Ohio Review
21
20
19
Sugar House Review
21
20
19
Yale Review
19
20
23
Rattle
24
17
23
Sun
56
17
25
Poetry Northwest
28
16
25
Smartish Pace
26
16
27
The Journal
28
15
27
Water-Stone Review
28
15
29
Copper Canyon Press
31
14
29
Michigan Quarterly Review
23
14
31
Blackbird
24
13
31
Hudson Review
32
13
31
Image
51
13
34
Four Way Books
56
12
34
Runes ©
34
12
36
Alice James Books
19
11
36
American Scholar
35
11
36
Canary
35
11
36
Lake Effect
35
11
36
New American Writing
35
11
36
Sixth Finch
62
11
36
Tupelo Press
35
11
43
Alaska Quarterly Review
40
10
43
Cue Editions
40
10
43
Ecotone
40
10
43
Great River Review
40
10
43
Green Mountains Review
40
10
43
Notre Dame Review
40
10
43
Orion
40
10
43
River Styx
40
10
43
Vallum: Contemporary Poetry
86
10
43
West Branch
40
10
53
TriQuarterly
12
9
54
Crazyhorse
52
8
54
Massachusetts Review
52
8
54
Ninth Letter
52
8
54
Shenandoah
40
8
58
Cimarron Review
62
7
58
Epoch
62
7
58
Hotel Amerika
62
7
58
Little Patuxent Review
62
7
58
New Letters
56
7
58
Salamander
56
7
58
Wave Books
56
7
58
Willow Springs
62
7
66
5 a.m.
56
6
66
Barrow Street
62
6
66
Codex
169
6
66
Crowd © (?)
62
6
66
Denver Quarterly
86
6
66
Gulf Coast
62
6
66
Indiana Review
62
6
66
Iowa Review
52
6
66
jubilat
62
6
66
Lana Turner
62
6
66
Little Star
62
6
66
Missouri Review
62
6
66
New Criterion
62
6
66
North American Review
62
6
66
Paterson Literary Review
62
6
66
Poetry International
62
6
66
Quarterly West (?)
169
6
66
Subtropics
62
6
66
World Literature Today
86
6
66
ZYZZYVA
62
6
66
Prelude
6
87
Account
86
5
87
Anhinga Press
86
5
87
Arroyo Literary Review
86
5
87
Assaracus
86
5
87
Atlanta Review
62
5
87
Awl
86
5
87
Blueline
86
5
87
Boston Review
86
5
87
Briar Cliff Review
86
5
87
Brick
86
5
87
Café Review
86
5
87
Chattahoochee Review
86
5
87
Collagist
86
5
87
Colorado Review
86
5
87
Court Green ©
86
5
87
Crab Orchard Review
5
87
Curbstone Press
86
5
87
Cypher Books
86
5
87
Dunes Review
86
5
87
Eastern Wash. Univ. Press ©
86
5
87
Eleven Eleven
86
5
87
Epiphany
86
5
87
Fifth Wednesday
86
5
87
Five Fingers Review (?)
86
5
87
Forklift Ohio
86
5
87
Granta
86
5
87
Graywolf Press
86
5
87
Harbour Publishing
86
5
87
Harvard Review
86
5
87
Hollyridge Press
86
5
87
Hunger Mountain
86
5
87
Ibbetson Street (?)
86
5
87
Laurel Poetry Collective ©
86
5
87
Literary Imagination
40
5
87
Lyric (?)
86
5
87
Malahat Review
86
5
87
Manhattan Review
86
5
87
Margie ©
86
5
87
Meridian
86
5
87
Muzzle Magazine
86
5
87
Nebraska Poets Calendar
86
5
87
New Issues Poetry and Prose
86
5
87
New South Books
86
5
87
New Verse News
86
5
87
OCHO
86
5
87
Parnassus: Poetry in Review
86
5
87
Pebble Lake Review
86
5
87
Pilot Light
86
5
87
Pleasure Boat Studio
86
5
87
Poems & Plays
86
5
87
Poetry Atlanta Press
86
5
87
Prism
5
87
Quiddity
86
5
87
Snake Nation Review
86
5
87
Southern Indiana Review
86
5
87
Southern Poetry Review
86
5
87
Spork
86
5
87
Think Journal
86
5
87
Third Coast
86
5
87
Tikkun
86
5
87
Toadlily Press
86
5
87
Treelight Books
86
5
87
Utah State University Press
86
5
87
Verse Wisconsin ©
86
5
87
YesYes Books
86
5
87
Zone 3
86
5
87
Cave Wall
5
87
TAB
5
87
Tiger Bark Press
5
87
Butcher’s Dog
5
87
LSU Press
5
87
Thrush
5
87
Tar River
5
87
Summerset Review
5
161
Beloit Poetry Journal
155
4
161
Southwest Review
155
4
161
University of Pittsburgh Press
155
4
164
Raritan
158
3
165
Birdfeast
159
2
165
Greensboro Review
159
2
165
Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review
169
2
165
Healing Muse
159
2
165
New South
159
2
165
Pinch
159
2
165
Pleiades
159
2
172
A Public Space
169
1
172
Able Muse
169
1
172
Airlie Press
169
1
172
Autumn House
159
1
172
Barefoot Muse
169
1
172
Bat City
169
1
172
Believer
169
1
172
Bellevue Literary Review
169
1
172
Black Warrior Review
169
1
172
Bloom
62
1
172
Blue Earth Review
169
1
172
Boulevard
159
1
172
Callaloo
169
1
172
Calyx
169
1
172
Cardinal Points
169
1
172
Chautauqua
62
1
172
Clockhouse
169
1
172
Columbia Poetry Review
169
1
172
Connecticut Review (?)
159
1
172
Construction
169
1
172
Crab Creek Review
169
1
172
Drunken Boat
169
1
172
Eleventh Muse ©
169
1
172
Evansville Review
169
1
172
Examined Life
169
1
172
Fort Hemlock Press ©
169
1
172
Free Lunch ©
169
1
172
Frostproof Review ©
169
1
172
Hanging Loose
169
1
172
Harpur Palate
169
1
172
Haven Chronicles (?)
169
1
172
Hayden’s Ferry
169
1
172
Hollins Critic
169
1
172
Hopkins Review
169
1
172
InDigest
169
1
172
Iron Horse Literary Review
169
1
172
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
169
1
172
Leaping Dog Press
169
1
172
Live Mag!
169
1
172
Long Island Quarterly
169
1
172
Lost Hills Books (?)
169
1
172
Main Street Rag
169
1
172
Make
169
1
172
McSweeney’s
169
1
172
Natural Bridge
169
1
172
New Delta Review
169
1
172
New Haven Review
169
1
172
New Madrid
169
1
172
Nimrod
169
1
172
Normal School
169
1
172
November 3rd Club
169
1
172
Omnidawn Publishing
169
1
172
Paper Street © (?)
169
1
172
Paris American
169
1
172
Pearl
169
1
172
Persea Books
169
1
172
Perugia Press
62
1
172
Phoebe
169
1
172
PMS
169
1
172
Poem-a-Day
169
1
172
Poet Lore
169
1
172
Poetry 180
169
1
172
Poetry Flash
169
1
172
Prairie Schooner
159
1
172
Rhino
169
1
172
Salmagundi
169
1
172
Sentence ©
169
1
172
Silk Road
169
1
172
Sink Review
169
1
172
Solstice
169
1
172
Specs
169
1
172
Spoon River Review
169
1
172
Upstreet
169
1
172
Valparaiso Poetry Review
169
1
172
Verse Magazine
169
1
172
Wordcraft of Oregon
169
1
172
Zephyr Press
169
1
172
Pluck
1
172
Southeast Review
1
172
Saranac Review
1
172
Chiron Review
1
172
Radius
1
172
Jai-Alai
1
172
Upstairs at Duroc
1
172
Enizagam
1
172
Exit 7
1
172
Tupelo Quarterly
1