Pushcart Prize Ranking (Poetry) for 2012

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By now, my ranking of literary magazines is well known among writers. I began the ranking several years ago as I attempted to prioritize my submissions ofshort stories. I analyzed ten years of Pushcart Prize anthologies and rankedthe magazines based on how many prizes and special mentions they had earned usinga simple formula to come up with a score. That was the only factor in myranking, attempting to keep it as objective as possible. I updated the rankingeach year when the new anthology was released, adding the new data whiledropping the data that was more than ten years old.
At the end of 2011, when I updated the Fiction rankings, Idid the analysis for Nonfiction as well, and came up with a separate ranking.Both of these lists, as well as the Fiction rankings from prior years, arelinked in the sidebar at right.
And now, finally, I've applied the analysis to Poetry.
Some people don't like rankings, and I can sympathize withtheir view. But I maintain that the Pushcart Prize is a reasonable proxy forquality, and I think many writers hope to place their work in the best possiblemagazine. If I were a poet, I'd want to see my work in Poetry, the clear "winner"in this ranking. But I also acknowledge that the Pushcart Press has been slowto recognize the work that is appearing in online magazines, and thesemagazines, some of which are excellent, are under-represented on the list.Writers should keep this in mind.
Are there any surprises here? You tell me. Poetry is clearly dominant, and American Poetry Review is a strong second. But many of the remaining top twenty-five also rank highly in the other genres.
For whatever it's worth to you, here it is:
Pushcart PrizeRanking (Poetry) for 2012 2012 Magazine 2012 Score 1 Poetry 108 2 American Poetry Review 74 3 Kenyon Review 65 4 Ploughshares 59 5 Georgia Review 46 6 Southern Review 45 7 New England Review 42 8 Threepenny Review 41 9 Gettysburg Review 40 10 Virginia Quarterly Review 36 11 TriQuarterly 33 12 Field 32 13 Five Points 30 14 Yale Review 25 15 BOA Editions 21 15 Shenandoah 21 15 Tin House 21 18 Alice James Books 20 19 Agni 19 20 American Scholar 17 20 Barrow Street 17 20 Cincinnati Review 17 23 The Journal 16 24 Literary Imagination 15 24 New Ohio Review 15 24 Notre Dame Review 15 27 Image 14 28 Colorado Review 13 28 Copper Canyon Press 13 28 Crazyhorse 13 28 Iowa Review 13 28 Michigan Quarterly Review 13 33 jubilat 12 33 North American Review 12 33 Rattle 12 33 Runes © 12 37 Blackbird 11 37 Canary 11 37 Chelsea © 11 37 Epoch 11 37 Lake Effect 11 37 Missouri Review 11 37 New American Writing 11 37 New Criterion 11 37 New Letters 11 37 Rivendell © 11 37 Southern Poetry Review 11 37 West Branch 11 49 Alaska Quarterly Review 10 49 Cue Editions 10 49 Eastern Wash. Univ. Press © 10 49 Great River Review 10 49 Green Mountains Review 10 49 Lyric (?) 10 49 New Orleans Review 10 49 Orion 10 49 Spillway 10 49 Turnrow 10 49 Water-Stone Review 10 49 Western Humanities Review 10 61 Massachusetts Review 8 61 Paris Review 8 61 Pleiades 8 64 5 a.m. 7 64 Connecticut Review 7 64 Hotel Amerika 7 64 Ninth Letter 7 64 Paper Street © (?) 7 64 Salamander 7 64 Sarabande Books 7 64 Seneca Review 7 72 Atlanta Review 6 72 Bloom 6 72 Cimarron Review 6 72 Crowd © (?) 6 72 Gulf Coast 6 72 Margie © 6 72 Mid American Review 6 72 New Issues Poetry and Prose 6 72 Perugia Press 6 72 Poems & Plays 6 72 Poetry Review 6 72 Salmagundi 6 72 Smartish Pace 6 72 Sun 6 72 Tupelo Press 6 72 Wave Books 6 88 Anhinga Press 5 88 Arroyo Literary Review 5 88 Bellingham Review 5 88 Blueline 5 88 Chattahoochee Review 5 88 Chautauqua 5 88 Cleveland State Univ. Poetry Ctr. 5 88 Court Green 5 88 Curbstone Press 5 88 Cypher Books 5 88 Denver Quarterly 5 88 Dogwood 5 88 Ecotone 5 88 Eleven Eleven 5 88 Epiphany 5 88 Fence 5 88 Five Fingers Review 5 88 Grand Street © 5 88 Graywolf Press 5 88 Hollyridge Press 5 88 Idaho Review 5 88 Laurel Poetry Collective 5 88 Little Patuxent Review 5 88 Manoa 5 88 Meridian 5 88 MIZNA 5 88 National Poetry Review 5 88 New South Books 5 88 OCHO 5 88 Painted Bride Quarterly 5 88 Parnassus: Poetry in Review 5 88 Partisan Review © 5 88 Pebble Lake Review 5 88 Pleasure Boat Studio 5 88 Poetry Atlanta Press 5 88 Poetry Northwest 5 88 Post Road 5 88 Provincetown Arts 5 88 Quiddity 5 88 River Styx 5 88 Sixth Finch 5 88 Snake Nation Review 5 88 Sugar House Review 5 88 Think Journal 5 88 Third Coast 5 88 Tikkun 5 88 Toadlily Press 5 88 Triplopia (?) 5 88 Utah State University Press 5 88 Vallum: Contemporary Poetry 5 88 Verse Wisconsin 5 88 World Literature Today 5 88 Zone 3 5 88 Verse Press © 5 88 Northeastern Univ. Press 5 88 Chicago Review 5 144 Beloit Poetry Journal 4 144 Raritan 4 144 Southwest Review 4 147 Black Warrior Review 3 147 Boulevard 3 147 Hudson Review 3 147 Prairie Schooner 3 147 University of Pittsburgh Press 3 152 Four Way Books 2 152 Greensboro Review 2 152 Healing Muse 2 152 Nimrod 2 152 PMS 2 152 Quarterly West 2 158 "88" 1 158 Arsenic Lobster 1 158 Autumn House 1 158 Barefoot Muse 1 158 Bat City 1 158 Bellevue Literary Review 1 158 Blue Earth Review 1 158 Bomb 1 158 Boston Review 1 158 Brilliant Corners 1 158 Brooklyn Review 1 158 Callaloo 1 158 Cape Cod Voice (?) 1 158 Columbia Poetry Review 1 158 Crab Creek Review 1 158 Daedalus 1 158 Drunken Boat 1 158 Eleventh Muse 1 158 First Intensity 1 158 Formalist © 1 158 Fort Hemlock Press 1 158 Free Lunch © 1 158 Frostproof Review © 1 158 Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review 1 158 Hanging Loose 1 158 Harpur Palate 1 158 Harvard Review 1 158 Haven Chronicles (?) 1 158 Hayden's Ferry 1 158 Hollins Critic 1 158 Hopkins Review 1 158 Hunger Mountain 1 158 Indiana Review 1 158 InDigest 1 158 Iris 1 158 Kentuckians for the Commonwealth 1 158 Leaping Dog Press 1 158 Live Mag! 1 158 Long Island Quarterly 1 158 Lost Hills Books 1 158 Lynx House Press (?) 1 158 Main Street Rag 1 158 McSweeney's 1 158 MS. 1 158 Natural Bridge 1 158 New Delta Review 1 158 New Haven Review 1 158 November 3rd Club 1 158 Omnidawn Publishing 1 158 Pearl 1 158 Phoebe 1 158 Poetry 180 1 158 Poetry Flash 1 158 Pool 1 158 Rhino 1 158 River City (?) 1 158 Seattle Review 1 158 Sentence 1 158 Sewanee Review 1 158 Speakeasy © 1 158 Specs 1 158 Spoon River Review 1 158 Thunder's Mouth Press © 1 158 TriQuarterly Books 1 158 University of Akron Press 1 158 Upstreet 1 158 Valparaiso Poetry Review 1 158 War, Literature and The Arts 1 158 Willow Springs 1 158 Wordcraft of Oregon 1 158 Xantippe (?) 1 158 ZYZZYVA 1 158 The MacGuffin 1 158 Poetry International 1 158 St. Ann's Review 1 158 Yale University Press 1 158 Southern Humanities Review 1 158 Portland Review 1 158 Sixteen Rivers 1 158 Rattapallax 1 158 Bucknell University Press 1 158 Roundhouse Press (?) 1 158 Michigan State Univ. 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