2015-10-28

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

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