Reviews are a great way to prompt yourself to think critically about a work–to spend more time with something you love, or well, maybe don’t so much. You can check out the reviews I’ve written here, including Paisley Rekdal’s most recent poetry collection Nightingale, published by Copper Canyon Press.
| Lit Mag/Journal | Payment | Spec. Genres | Length | Format | Notes |
| 32 Poems | None | >1000 | Online | ||
| Adanna | None | <2000 | Query first/women only | ||
| Avatar Review | None | Online | |||
| Barrelhouse | None | Poetry Books/Chapbooks | <750 | Online | |
| Big City Lit | None | <4000 | Online | ||
| Bone Bouquet | None | Poetry Books | Books published by women prior 4 yrs/women; non-binary only | ||
| Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review | None | Poetry | <1500 | ||
| Boston Review | Semi-pro | <5000 | Print/Online | Submit pitch or draft | |
| Chattahoochee Review | $150 | Poetry/Fiction/CNF | Submit pitch | ||
| Chicago Review | None | 500 – 1800 | Select from list of books to review | ||
| Cider Press Review | None | <500 | Online | ||
| Colorado Review | None | Online | Query first | ||
| Denver Quarterly | None | 1500 – 3000 | Historical theme | ||
| Florida Review | None | 500-1000 | Print/Online | Books published prior two years | |
| Gettysburg Review | Online | May charge a fee to submit | |||
| Glint Literary Journal | None | Online | |||
| Green Mountains Review | None | Print/Online | Include cover letter | ||
| Gulf Stream Lit Mag | None | Online | Query first | ||
| Hudson Review | None | ||||
| Kestrel | None | Print/Online | Query first | ||
| Kaleidoscope | $10 – $100 | <5000 | Electronic | In the field of disability and/or the arts | |
| Literary Mama | None | 800 – 2000 | Online | ||
| Mid-American Review | None | Poetry/Fiction/CNF | <400 | Query first | |
| Minnesota Review | None | Review essays/email first | |||
| Museum of Americana | None | Online | Query first | ||
| New Delta Review | None | ||||
| New Haven Review | Print/Online | ||||
| New Letters | $35 | 500 – 900 | No simultaneous submissions/Query first | ||
| Newfound | Semi-pro | 500-5000 | Online | ||
| Offcourse | None | Online | Query first | ||
| Pedestal Magazine | None | Online | Query first | ||
| Pleiades | 800 – 1200 | Print/Online | Three minute reviews published online | ||
| Poetry Café | None | Poetry Chapbooks | Online | Query to be a reviewer | |
| Poetry Flash | None | 4 dbl-spcd pgs | Print/Online | Query first | |
| Prairie Schooner | None | <1000 | Books published prior 18 mos. | ||
| Prospectus | $25 | Chapbooks, Poetry Books, Story Collections, First Novels, Art books | 250 – 300 | Print/Online | |
| Rain Taxi | None | <500 | Online | Published w/in last year | |
| Redactions: Poetry & Poetics | None | Online | |||
| Rumpus | None | 1200 – 2500 | Online | ||
| Saint Ann’s Review | None | Query first | |||
| So To Speak | None | >1500 | Online | ||
| South Carolina Review | 2 copies | ||||
| Southeast Review | Poetry/Fiction/CNF | 800 – 1200 | Published in current calendar year | ||
| Southern Humanities Review | None | Online | |||
| Sunlight Press | None | Books, Short Story Collections/Essay Collections | 750 – 1000 | Online | |
| Stirring | None | <500 | Online | ||
| Sugar House Review | None | Online | Query review editor: editors@sugarhousereview.com | ||
| Sycamore Review | None | Print/Online | Query first | ||
| Tarpaulin Sky | None | Online | |||
| Terrain.org | None | Online | |||
| Texas Review | None | ||||
| The Bind | None | Online | Reviews of books by women and nonbinary authors | ||
| Third Coast | None | Poetry/Fiction/NonFiction/Essays/Plays | 500 – 2000 | 1st/2nd Books/Small Presses preferred | |
| Tinderbox | None | Poetry/Flash creative nonfiction/Lyric essays/Hybrid forms | 500-1000 | Online | Especially interested in featuring titles from smaller presses |
| Under a Warm Green Linden | None | Interviews with poets and reviews of poetry books are read year-round. | Online | ||
| Up the Staircase Quarterly | None | Books/Lit Mags/Art | Online | ||
| Valparaiso Poetry Review | None | Online | |||
| Whale Road Review | None | <500 | Online | ||
| Writing Disorder | None | Online | |||
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