US Literary Journals: Lousiana to Wyoming, 2026

The following list of active or presumed active literary journals in the US comprises a little over 200 publications from Louisiana to Wyoming. The majority of these should be free to submit to, but some may have specific time frames in a year that they accept submissions in poetry and prose for certain, other genres on occasion. Most should not have submission fees but double-check they may be restricted to students of particular colleges, universities or geographical residence. I have not had the chance to have extended conversations with all of the editors here, so you'll have to do your own research in that regard to determine if publication with them is a good fit. I've included links to these on my Patreon for my paid subscribers but I also want to make sure that everyone has a chance to check these publications out over time! Good luck and here's to all of the amazing work that you create. Don't send AI entries to them, that should go without saying. 

Louisiana

Bayou Magazine

New Delta Review

New Orleans Review

Rougarou

Southern Review

Thema

Xavier Review

Maine

Cafe Review

Off the Coast

Stone Coast Review

Maryland

Grub Street Literary Magazine

Passager Journal

Wellter

Massachusetts

Agni

Boston Review

Breakwater Review

Emerson Review

Massachusetts Review

Salamander Magazine

Worcester Review

Michigan

The MacGuffin

Michigan Quarterly Review

Passages North

Third Coast

Woodward Review

Minnesota

Blue Earth Review

Conduit

Great River Review

Midway Journal

Midwest Review

Saint Paul Almanac

Sleetmagazine.com

Split Rock Review

The Talking Stick

The Under Review

Whistling Shade

Missouri

Boulevard

december

Missouri Review

Natural Bridge

New Letters (Almost 90!)

River Styx

Montana

CutBank

Whitefish Review

Nebraska

Fine Lines

Laurus

New Territory

Prairie Schooner

Nevada

Brushfire

Interim

Red Rock Review

Sierra Nevada Review

New Hampshire

Barnstorm Journal

Lifelines

Meetinghouse

Northern New England Review

New Jersey

Black Fox Literary Magazine

The Literary Review

The Nassau Literary Review

Paterson Literary Review

New Mexico

Blue Mesa Review

Puerto del Sol

Santa Fe Literary Review

New York

Barzakh

The Brooklyn Review

Columbia

Epoch

Global City Review

Inkwell

Lit

Olive Tree Review

Salt Hill

Washington Square Review

North Carolina

Glint Literary Journal

storySouth

North Dakota

North Dakota Quarterly

Northern Eclecta

Ohio

The Journal

Mid-American Review

Passages North

River Teeth Journal

Rubbertop Review

Oklahoma

Absolute Literary Journal

cimarronreview.com

Nimrod

The Oklahoma Review

World Literature Today

Oregon

45th Parallel

CALYX

Gobshite Quarterly

The Gravity of the Thing

Phantom Drift

Portland Review

Silk Road Review

The Timberline Review

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine

Pennsylvania

The Blue Route

The Fourth River

Hot Metal Bridge

Paper Dragon

Penn Review

Tinge

Woodcrest Magazine

Rhode Island

The Alembic

Bryant Literary Review

Mount Hope

The Ocean State Review

Spry

Wizards in Space

South Carolina

Cola Literary Review

Illuminations Literary Magazine

South Carolina Review

swamp pink

South Dakota

Oakwood

Red Coyote

South Dakota Review

Tennessee

Cumberland River Review

Grist

Nashville Review

New Millennium Writings

PINCH

The Sewanee Review

Texas

Aries

Bat City Review

Carve Magazine

FlowerSong Press

Iron Horse Literary Review

Gulf Coast

Reunion: The Dallas Review

San Antonio Review

Southwest Review

Space City Underground

Texas Review Press 

Utah

Route 7 Review

Western Humanities Review

Vermont

Bennington Review

Hunger Mountain Review

Mud Season Review

New England Review

Virginia

Blackbird

Revolute

So To Speak

Washington

Bellingham Review

Blood Orange Review

Tahoma Literary Review

The Other Journal

Willow Springs Magazine

Washington D.C.

Beltway Poetry Quarterly

FOLIO

West Virginia

Calliope

Cheat River Review

heartwood

Kestrel

Wisconsin

Cream City Review

Madison Review

Mobius: The Journal of Social Change

Stoneboat Literary Journal

Wisconsin Review

Wyoming

Expression

Owen Wister Review

Sem’s Literary & Arts Magazine

 

Khmer Poet: Makhali-Phal (1898-1965)

Every now and then I wonder about the way ghosts come back to us. April 17th is significant to the Cambodians for the fall of Phnom Penh and the beginning of the Khmer Rouge Era (ruling from 1975-1979 and continuing an insurgency for 20 years until 1999) This year, I'd been looking at a strange magazine in my library, a 1942 issue of Harper's that I don't recall buying, but it just showed up in my boxes.

I'd been looking at a T.S. Eliot essay on the verse of Rudyard Kipling with some morbid fascination and flipping around came upon a poem, "Omen" by the late Edward Weismiller from Wisconsin who had quite a storied career. He was the youngest poet to win the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, and went on to serve in World War 2 in the newly-formed OSS, requested to assist in counter-espionage. All fascinating stuff worth a read, but what it lead to was the note that he had been asked "to translate the first award-winning novel of Franco-Khmer poet Makhali-Phal into English. La Favorite de dix ans was published in New York in 1942 as The Young Concubine. In 2008, Professor Weismiller began advising a literary team working to produce an updated version of his original translation incorporating cultural background material unavailable in 1941."

As a novel, "The Young Concubine" tells the story of Atman, a young Cambodian princess who believes she is destined to carry the burden of the universe. The narrative is rich with elements of mysticism, ritual, and the clash of cultures, as Atman navigates her relationships with her father, his concubine, and her uncle. The novel delves into her struggles with love, spirituality, and her quest for identity, ultimately leading her back to the jungle where she meets a tragic fate at the hands of sorcerers. You can read the original New York Times review from 1942 here if you have the TimesMachine or the Kirkus review from 1942. The Young Concubine updated translation does not yet seem to have been published, but it seems like something to follow up soon.

In France a website formed to bring her back into consideration but it's gone defunct since. They included a presumed portrait of her. There's a 1933 photo of her, but much about her seems to have been a mystery.

In 2010, her poetry collection Song of Peace was published by Datasia, Inc. with the introductory text "In 1898, a Franco-Khmer child was born in Cambodia whose very blood combined the opposing worlds of Europe and Asia. As an author, she devoted her life to expressing the conflict, harmony and hope inherent in these powerful forces. Her name was Makhali-Phal. Song of Peace is her timeless poem of inspiration and self-awareness for all humankind, but especially for those seeking to understand the essence of East and West. Through Makhali-Phal's visionary words, ancient Khmer souls speak again, sharing their wisdom in ways that resonate in our modern era. This new edition includes the first English translation of her epic poem Chant de Paix with complete original French text, the first published biography of the author by Sara Elizabeth Harris, and exclusive personal photos of Makhali-Phal."

She passed away ten years before the fall of Cambodia in Pau, near the French and Spanish border in the Pyrenees. Perhaps some other colleagues of mine can expand more on her story, but I think there's some things to be interested in here in regards to her imagination and the way she worked through her heritage and sense of self during the French Indochina era. Let me know what you think!

95 US Literary Journals: Alabama to Kentucky 2026

Over the course of the year, many of you may wish to set a goal of getting published in at least one journal in every state, but it can be daunting to figure out how to start. Here are 95 literary journals that are still active or likely to be active in 2026 during America's 250th birthday, from Alabama to Kentucky. I'll share the other set later this month. Most do not charge submission fees, nor do I believe they should but I understand the enticement in the middle of toxic capitalism and the AI hustle of modernity. We lost a relatively small number of journals between the last time I assembled such a list, and a few new ones have emerged. This list is not intended as encyclopedic but practical and I cannot speak to the character or quality of given editors of these journals at the time of discovery so do not consider this list an endorsement, but an observation. Caveat emptor and all of that. For the subscribers to my Patreon, I've included links to expedite matters but of course, there is value in the googling of things yourselves as well. Good fortune to all human writers in a strange strange world, and I'll share more with you soon.

Alabama

Alabama Heritage

The Auburn Circle

Aura

Birmingham Arts Journal

Birmingham Poetry Review

Dark River Review

Fiction Attic Press

The Marr’s Field Journal

Negative Capability Press

NELLE

The Oracle

Rubicon

Southern Humanities Review

Southern Literary Review

Steel Toe Review

The Sucarnochee Review

Wide Angle

Wingspan Literary Magazine

Alabama Literary Review

Alaska

Alaska Magazine

Alaska Quarterly Review

Cirque

Pacifica Literary Review

Permafrost

Arizona

Arizona Quarterly

DIAGRAM

Fairy Tale Review

Pine Reads Review

Rain Shadow Review

Sonora Review

TRANSFORMATIONS

Arkansas

Arkana

The Arkansas International

Arkansas Review | A Journal of Delta Studies

Equinox – English – UA Little Rock

Oxford American

SLANT – School of Language and Literature

California

Alchemy

Coachella Review

Faultline

Fiction International

Invisible City

Lunch Ticket

Pacific Review

Colorado

Colorado Review

Denver Quarterly

Think

Connecticut

Dogwood

Noctua Review

Delaware

The Broadkill Review

The Cicadas Cry

Dreamstreets Archive

Florida

Panhandler Magazine

Saw Palm

Talon Review

Georgia

Arts & Letters

Atlanta Review

Five Points

The Georgia Review

lullwater review

Stillpoint Literary Magazine

Three Penny Review

Hawaii

Hawaii Pacific Review

Hawaii Review

Manoa

Tinfish

Vice-Versa

Idaho

The Idaho Review

fugue

Stonecrop Magazine

Talking River Review

Illinois

After Hours Press

Another Chicago Magazine

Arcturus

Bluestem

Chicago Review

Chicago Quarterly Review

Crab Orchard Review

Euphony Journal

Ninth Letter

Oyez Review

Indiana

BOOTH

Notre Dame Review

Iowa

BRINK

Flyway

The Iowa Review

North American Review

Kansas

Coal City Review

Cottonwood

Flint Hills Review

Landlocked

Mikrokosmos

Kentucky

Jelly Bucket

Louisville Review

Miracle Monocle 

205 Asian American Poets: A starting list

 As an idea, “Asian America” is always a bit of a moving target, with as many reasons for us to push towards it as away from it, at times. In my work with the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans we know there are over 60 different groups and ethnicities each charting their own course in the United States, while the Association for Asian American Studies, established in 1979, turns 47 this year, which isn’t that long in the history of the United States. 

People from Asia began appearing in the histories of the US as early as 1587, but many of us see the 1850s as a key period where immigrants from China and elsewhere become an ongoing part of our social conversations.  The history of Asian American literature, especially its poets is still a work in progress, but a major milestone was when the July/August 2017 issue of Poetry Magazine gave a spotlight to Asian American poets for the first time since its founding in 1912. 

The idea of the spotlight was “to introduce new readers to Asian American poets and to help those who are interested in learning more about these poets and their poetry. It is an ongoing project to make visible the vastness and variety of U.S. literary culture and to expand our notions of human experience in our time.” It was most recently updated in 2021.

This was a somewhat contentious listing initially, and there are some who have various academic disputes about the idea of Asian America as a concept and what counts for inclusion. Do you include those who go on to live outside of America, or those who never become US citizens, even if they live most of their lives here? Adoptees, or people who write only in English or in their heritage languages? Does this include East Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Pacific Islands, or just few of those zones? Do you include those who expressly don’t want to be called Asian American for whatever rationale? There are a thousand questions that I won’t go into here. But there can be many interesting reasons to look for poets with roots in the continent of Asia and the Pacific Islands and diasporas connected to it.

What becomes challenging however, is coming up with a current guide or directory to Asian American poets at any given point in time.

Most extant directories are very vulnerable to getting out of date quickly, and we don’t seem to have counterparts to the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. You’ll find information about individual poets at Academy of American Poets, for example, but next to nothing about Asian America. The Smithsonian Asian Pacific Center, Asian American Writers Workshop, Kearny Street Workshop also don’t have extensive guides that are presently poet specific. Kundiman has a list of fellows who’ve participated in their program and recently stopped differentiating between those who are strictly poets and those who are writing prose instead of or in addition to poetry and not all Asian American poets have participated in their program. The Wikipedia page on Asian American Writers is also very out of date, and we also have the emerging problem that it is very difficult to add in new poets or even to make simple updates since the process has become much more strict in recent years in addition to certain ongoing bias problems. But for now here's a list some of you may find helpful:

Aria Aber

Dilruba Ahmed

Zubair Ahmed

Ai

Meena Alexander

Agha Shahid Ali

Kazim Ali

Hala Alyan

Indran Amirthanayagam

Cynthia Arrieu-King

Fatimah Asghar

Ruth Awad

Rick Barot

Arlene Biala

Quan Barry

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Tamiko Beyer

Jaswinder Bolina

Jenny Boully

Luis Cabalquinto

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello

Tina Cane

Nick Carbó

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Dorothy Chan

Michelle Chan Brown

Wo Chan

Jennifer Chang

Tina Chang

Victoria Chang

Cathy Linh Che

Chen Chen

Ching-In Chen

Ken Chen

Justin Chin

Marilyn Chin

Wendy Chin-Tanner

Su Cho

Eric Chock

Franny Choi

Teresa Mei Chuc

Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis

Brian Komei Dempster

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

Linh Dinh

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Jennifer Kwon Dobbs

Tishani Doshi

Carolina Ebeid

Tarfia Faizullah

Farnoosh Fathi

Monica Ferrell

Megan Fernandes

Naoko Fujimoto

Shamala Gallagher

Eric Gamalinda

Sarah Gambito

Eugene Gloria

Vince Gotera

Jessica Hagedorn

Minal Hajratwala

Sadakichi Hartmann

Raza Ali Hasan

Sharon Hashimoto

Kimiko Hahn

Jennifer Hasegawa

Lee Herrick

Anna Maria Hong

Cathy Park Hong

Garrett Hongo

Tung-Hui Hu

Luisa A. Igloria

Lawson Fusao Inada

Hiromi Itō

Paolo Javier

Ha Jin

W. Todd Kaneko

Summi Kaipa

Bhanu Kapil

Vandana Khanna

Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley

Maxine Hong Kingston

Myung Mi Kim

Suji Kwock Kim

Juliet Kono

Amitava Kumar

David Lau

Dipika Mukherjee

Alan Chong Lau

Ae Hee Lee

Ed Bok Lee

Esther Lee

Karen An-hwei Lee

Li-Young Lee

Priscilla Lee

Sueyeun Juliette Lee

Joseph O. Legaspi

Mari L’Esperance

Genny Lim

Sandra Lim

Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

Tan Lin

Tao Lin

Yuxi Lin

Timothy Liu

Lo Kwa Mei-En

Trisha Low

Pamela Lu

Gerald Maa

Amit Majmudar

Mai Mang

Randall Mann

Sally Wen Mao

Wong May

Dunya Mikhail

Janice Mirikitani

Nadia Misir

James Masao Mitsui

Rajiv Mohabir

Mary Anne Mohanraj

Mong-Lan

Faisal Mohyuddin

David Mura

Kristin Naca

Sawako Nakayasu

Vivek Narayanan

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Rick Noguchi

Yone Noguchi

Hoa Nguyen

Diana Khoi Nguyen

William Oandasan

Matthew Olzmann

Shin Yu Pai

Hannah Sanghee Park

Ishle Yi Park

Oliver de la Paz

Craig Santos Perez

Sasenarine Persaud

Hai-Dang Phan

Bao Phi

Mali Phonpadith

Krysada Panusith Phounsiri

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Michelle Naka Pierce

Jon Pineda

Wang Ping

A. K. Ramanujan

Bino A. Realuyo

Srikanth Reddy

Paisley Rekdal

Barbara Jane Reyes

Atsuro Riley

Lee Ann Roripaugh

Patrick Rosal

Brynn Saito

Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut

Sudeep Sen

Vijay Seshadri

Ravi Shankar

Solmaz Sharif

Prageeta Sharma

Brenda Shaughnessy

Brandon Shimoda

Sun Yung Shin

Anis Shivani

Beau Sia

Brandon Som

Cathy Song

Christopher Spaide

Brian Kim Stefans

Adrienne Su

Arthur Sze

Eileen R. Tabios

Jeff Tagami

Dujie Tahat

Alex Tarampi

Souvankham Thammavongsa

Bryan Thao Worra

Jeet Thayil

Barbara Tran

Paul Tran

Truong Tran

Pimone Triplett

Amy Uyematsu

Mai Der Vang

Pramila Venkateswaran

Catzie Vilayphonh

Ocean Vuong

Divya Victor

Sharon Wang

Ronaldo V. Wilson

Jane Wong

Janet Wong

Nellie Wong

David Woo

Koon Woon

Khaty Xiong

Lynn Xu

Wendy Xu

Mitsuye Yamada

Jeffrey Yang

John Yau

Emily Jungmin Yoon

Mia You

Monica Youn

C. Dale Young

Timothy Yu

Jenny Zhang