Best American Poetry Rankings

Here is a pull down all of the publicly available years for the Best American Poetry Awards. Our methodology was, simply, one vote per poem in the anthology per journal. This isn’t the most rigorous of methods, but the rankings included on the individual journals, such as everything highlighted on Slant Rhyme, are just another factor for students to use when determining where to submit and in what order.

Don’t read a ton into a journal that has many or has few. In our opinion, Pushcart is a more useful signal.

Magazine	# of Poems	Rank
The New Yorker	141	1
Poetry	110	2
American Poetry Review	89	3
Ploughshares	66	4
The Paris Review	61	5
New England Review	39	6
The Kenyon Review	37	7
The Southern Review	34	8
The Yale Review	32	9
Threepenny Review	30	10
New American Writing	29	11
The Atlantic Monthly	29	1
Boulevard	27	12
Iowa Review	26	13
The New Republic	26	13
Georgia Review	25	14
Gettysburg Review	25	14
Southwest Review	24	15
Boston Review	22	16
Michigan Quarterly Review	22	16
Agni	21	17
Callaloo	19	18
Colorado Review	19	18
Grand Street	19	18
Hanging Loose	19	18
The Antioch Review	19	18
Barrow Street	18	19
Field	18	19
Five Points	18	19
Harvard Review	18	19
Prairie Schooner	18	19
The Cincinnati Review	18	19
Virginia Quarterly Review	18	19
TriQuarterly	18	19
Denver Quarterly	16	20
The Hudson Review	15	21
The New Criterion	15	21
Verse	15	21
Antaeus	14	22
Shenandoah	14	22
Beloit Poetry Journal	13	23
New Letters	13	23
The Nation	13	23
Western Humanities Review	13	23
Green Mountains Review	12	24
Hambone	12	24
The New York Review of Books	12	24
Conjunctions	11	25
jubilat	11	25
Partisan Review	11	25
The London Review of Books	11	25
Tin House	11	25
Gulf Coast	10	26
o•blék	10	26
Raritan	10	26
Salmagundi	10	26
Sulfur	10	26
The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day	10	26
Alaska Quarterly Review	9	27
Conduit	9	27
Fence	9	27
New Ohio Review	9	27
Seneca Review	9	27
Sentence	9	27
American Scholar	9	27
Another Chicago Magazine	8	28
Court Green	8	28
Epoch	8	28
LIT	8	28
Pleiades	8	28
POOL	8	28
River Styx	8	28
Witness	8	28
32 poems	7	29
Black Warrior Review	7	29
Chicago Review	7	29
Columbia Poetry Review	7	29
Crab Orchard Review	7	29
Crazyhorse	7	29
Ontario Review	7	29
Subtropics	7	29
The World	7	29
Chelsea	6	30
Exquisite Corpse	6	30
Fine Madness	6	30
No: a journal of the arts	6	30
Pequod	6	30
SHINY	6	30
The Common	6	30
The Literary Review	6	30
Sewanee Review	6	30
The Sun	6	30
Cave Wall	5	31
Cream City Review	5	31
Image	5	31
Indiana Review	5	31
Many Mountains Moving	5	31
Margie	5	31
Meridian	5	31
Painted Bride Quarterly	5	31
Poet Lore	5	31
Rattle	5	31
The Believer	5	31
The Hat	5	31
The Massachusetts Review	5	31
88	4	32
A Public Space	4	32
American Letters Commentary	4	32
Brilliant Corners	4	32
Connecticut Review	4	32
Fulcrum	4	32
Harper’s	4	32
Harvard Magazine	4	32
Mid American Review	4	32
MiPoesias	4	32
Mississippi Review	4	32
Mudfish	4	32
New York Quarterly	4	32
Open City	4	32
Parnassus	4	32
Plume	4	32
Poetry New York	4	32
Provincetown Arts	4	32
Quarterly West	4	32
Sewanee Theological Review	4	32
Skanky Possum	4	32
The Awl	4	32
The Journal	4	32
The Ohio Review	4	32
Third Coast	4	32
Urbanus	4	32
Volt	4	32
ZYZZYVA	4	32
ABZ:A Poetry Magazine	3	33
Aerial	3	33
American Poet	3	33
Bomb	3	33
Boston Phoenix	3	33
Ecotone	3	33
Facture	3	33
Fifth Wednesday Journal	3	33
Glass Technology	3	33
Granta	3	33
LUNA	3	33
Lyric	3	33
No Roses Review	3	33
North American Review	3	33
Notre Dame Review	3	33
PMS	3	33
Poetry Northwest	3	33
Rattapallax	3	33
Santa Monica Review	3	33
Shiny International	3	33
Slate	3	33
storySouth	3	33
Temblor	3	33
Terminus Magazine	3	33
Missouri Review	3	33
The New York Times Magazine	3	33
The Progressive	3	33
The Times Literary Supplement	3	33
Tyuonyi	3	33
Able Muse	2	34
American Scholar	2	34
Atlanta Review	2	34
Blackbird	2	34
Blue Sofa	2	34
Boston Book Review	2	34
Brooklyn Review	2	34
Can We Have Our Ball Back?	2	34
Cherry Tree	2	34
CROWD	2	34
DCPoetry Anthology 2003	2	34
DMQ Review	2	34
DoubleTake	2	34
Extracts from Pelican Bay	2	34
Gargoyle	2	34
Hayden’s Ferry	2	34
Hotel Amerika	2	34
In Time	2	34
Jacket	2	34
Kiosk	2	34
La Petite Zine	2	34
Make	2	34
Manoa	2	34
McSweeney’s	2	34
Northwest Review	2	34
Phoebe	2	34
Poem-a-Day	2	34
Poetry East	2	34
Poetry Flash	2	34
Post Road	2	34
Princeton University Library Chronicle	2	34
Rhino	2	34
River City	2	34
Runes	2	34
Salt Hill	2	34
Solo	2	34
Sonora Review	2	34
Spoon River Quarterly	2	34
The American Voice	2	34
The Birmingham Poetry Review	2	34
The Café Review	2	34
The Canary	2	34
The Carolina Review	2	34
The Hopkins Review	2	34
Los Angeles Review	2	34
The New York Times	2	34
The Sienese Shredder	2	34
The Sycamore Review	2	34
Tikkun	2	34
upstreet	2	34
Waxwing	2	34
West Branch	2	34
Willow Springs	2	34
Xconnect	2	34
26: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics	1	35
3rd Bed	1	35
Acorn	1	35
Action Yes Online Quarterly	1	35
Alkali Flats	1	35
America Poets	1	35
American Literary Review	1	35
Antennae	1	35
apex of the M	1	35
Armenian Papers	1	35
Arshile	1	35
Ascent	1	35
Asheville Poetry Review	1	35
Aufgabe	1	35
Avec	1	35
B City	1	35
Before Recollection	1	35
Beltway Poetry Quarterly	1	35
Bird Dog	1	35
Birdfeast	1	35
Blasts	1	35
Bombay Gin	1	35
Bookforum	1	35
Boondoggle	1	35
Broadway	1	35
Burrow Press Review	1	35
BuzzFeed	1	35
Calyx	1	35
Captive Audience	1	35
Carbon Copy Magazine	1	35
Chain	1	35
Cimarron Review	1	35
Clockwatch Review	1	35
Collagist	1	35
Common Ground	1	35
Common Sense	1	35
Connotation Press	1	35
Copper Nickel	1	35
Croonenbergh’s Fly	1	35
Crux	1	35
Deluxe Rubber Chicken	1	35
Diamonds are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball	1	35
Dien Cai Dau	1	35
Disbelief	1	35
Double Room	1	35
Drumvoices Revue	1	35
Ecopoetics	1	35
Empathy	1	35
Endicott Review	1	35
Evansville Review	1	35
failbetter.com	1	35
Farmer’s Market	1	35
Faucheuse	1	35
Figdust	1	35
For Nelson Mandela	1	35
Fortress	1	35
Fourteen Hills	1	35
Free Lunch	1	35
Fruita Pulp	1	35
Gastronomica	1	35
God Hunger	1	35
Greensboro Review	1	35
Gris-Gris	1	35
Gulfshore Life	1	35
Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review	1	35
Harp Lake	1	35
Harpur Palate	1	35
Heavy Daughter Blues	1	35
Hinchas de Poesia	1	35
House (Blown Apart)	1	35
How(ever)	1	35
Human Wishes	1	35
In Other Words	1	35
In Posse Review	1	35
Insurance Magazine	1	35
Iodine Poetry Journal	1	35
Iron Horse Literary Review	1	35
Kalliope	1	35
Kansas Quarterly	1	35
Kinfolks Quarterly	1	35
Lambda Literary Review	1	35
Lemmon Hound	1	35
Lingo	1	35
Literal Latte	1	35
Literary Imagination	1	35
Little Patuxent Review	1	35
Longhouse	1	35
Los Angeles Review of Books	1	35
Love Alone	1	35
Maggy	1	35
Mead: The Magazine of Literature and Libations	1	35
Measure	1	35
Memorious	1	35
Miramar	1	35
Mungo vs. Ranger	1	35
Muzzle Magazine	1	35
New and Collected Poems	1	35
New Millennium Writings	1	35
New South	1	35
Nightsun	1	35
Nimrod	1	35
Ninth Letter	1	35
No Tell Motel	1	35
OCHO	1	35
One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays	1	35
OnTheBus	1	35
Oxford American	1	35
PANK	1	35
Paperbag	1	35
Pataphysics	1	35
Paterson Literary Review	1	35
PEN America	1	35
Pharos	1	35
Poetry Daily	1	35
Poetry Project Newsletter	1	35
Poets & Writers	1	35
Potomac Review	1	35
Powder Keg	1	35
Pressed Wafer	1	35
Private	1	35
Pyramid of Bone	1	35
Quarter After Eight	1	35
Ragazine	1	35
Rapidfeed	1	35
Redivider	1	35
Rivendell	1	35
Rosebud	1	35
Sacramento News & Review	1	35
Sal Mimeo	1	35
Salt	1	35
Sarah’s Choice	1	35
Shankpainter	1	35
Sites	1	35
Sixth Finch	1	35
Slope	1	35
Southern Indiana Review	1	35
Southern Poetry Review	1	35
Spillway	1	35
Spinning Jenny	1	35
Sycamore Review	1	35
Tahoma Literary Review	1	35
Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics	1	35
Tar River Poetry	1	35
Tarpaulin Sky	1	35
Terrain.org	1	35
Texas Review	1	35
The Agriculture Reader	1	35
The Americas Review	1	35
The Arkansas Testament	1	35
The Baffler	1	35
The Bitter Oleander	1	35
The Bridge	1	35
The Brooklyn Rail	1	35
The Butcher Shop	1	35
The Cortland Review	1	35
The End of Beauty	1	35
The Formalist	1	35
The Germ	1	35
The House Organ	1	35
The Inner Room	1	35
The Journal of Family Life	1	35
The Manhattan Review	1	35
The Muse of Distance	1	35
The Nebraska Review	1	35
The Normal School	1	35
The Occident	1	35
The Prose Poem	1	35
The Reaper	1	35
The Rumpus	1	35
The Southampton Review	1	35
The Stud Duck	1	35
The Tampa Review	1	35
The Texas Observer	1	35
the tiny	1	35
The Vocabula Review	1	35
The Volcano Inside	1	35
The Volta	1	35
The Washington Post Magazine	1	35
These Days	1	35
Tongue	1	35
Tor House Newsletter	1	35
Transparent Gestures	1	35
Tupelo Quarterly	1	35
Unsplendid	1	35
Valley Voices	1	35
Van Gogh’s Ear	1	35
Vanitas	1	35
Vinyl Poetry	1	35
Vitrine: a printed museum	1	35
Voyaging Portraits	1	35
Water Stone	1	35
Weber Studies	1	35
Who Whispered Near Me	1	35
Women’s Review of Books	1	35
Zoland Poetry	1	35