Perhaps this is going about it backwards, but as I go forward, I'm most likely to submit to a place where I've recently seen work I like a lot. More often than not, that's formal in some sense, but not always. I submit to places I still want to get into even if they've rejected me before.
So, for what it's worth, I've submitted poems in the past year to "name" places like Beloit PJ, 32 Poems, Rattle, Yale Review, Commonweal, America, Crab Orchard Review, Notre Dame Review, Hopkins Review, Able Muse, PN Review, and Barrow Street.
Less well known places were Raintown, Pangyrus, Lighten Up Online, and Snakeskin.
Hope this is some help!
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