Where To Publish Poetry Book Reviews

I was asked about good places to submit reviews of a poetry collection and realized this is an area where my knowledge is lacking.

Early in my days getting serious about participation in the literary community, I started writing reviews. I wrote many reviews for a market (Gently Read Literature) that is sadly defunct. I wrote a number of reviews for NewPages. I wrote a couple reviews for Foreword Review. I was young and inexperienced and the FR person I interacted with at the time had no patience for my learning curve.

Kirkus Reviews has long seemed like kind of a big deal… and, of course, there’s The New York Review of Books, which seems more for the fancy pants novelists (or that seemed to be the case circa early 2010s when I paid closer attention to their content).

I posed the question regarding ‘where to submit poetry book reviews’ on Facebook and received useful feedback. Some of that information is included in this list and comments below.

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Markets for Poetry Book Reviews:

LitHub

The Washington Post

The Rumpus

Publisher’s Weekly

Book List (American Library Association)

NewPages

Foreword Reviews

Kirkus Reviews

The American Poetry Review (APR)

Prairie Schooner

The Georgia Review

The Kenyon Review

AGNI

The Threepenny Review

American Book Review

Ploughshares

London Review of Books

Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB)

The New Criterion

Contemporary Poetry Review

Boston Review

The New Republic

The Yale Review

Cleveland Review of Books

Critical Inquiry

CALYX

Mom Egg Review (MER)

Lily poetry Review

Whale Road Review

Night Heron Barks

Pleiades

Tinderbox Poetry Review

Heavy Feather Review

Rain Taxi Review

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Notable suggestions came from people including, Sheila Wellehan, who suggested, “Journals that first published poems included in the book are a great place to start.”

Poet and critic, Ernest Hilbert, notes: “In my experience, any literary magazine that runs book reviews (many if not most do) is happy to see them. Well written reviews are scarcer than poetry in terms of what comes over the transom. A newly launched magazine in London will only consider poetry submissions from an author who also submits a review of another poet's work at the same time.”

Aiden Hunt recommends, “The Adroit Journal, Jacket2, Another Chicago Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, On the Seawall” as well as Philly Poetry Chapbook Review (PCR), which Aiden edits, publishes reviews of poetry chapbooks.

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Where else can you publish poetry reviews?

Let us know other markets to add to this list.

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