Blackbird is an online journal of literature and the arts based in the United States that posts two issues a year, May 1 and November 1.

[1] Blackbird publishes fiction, poetry, plays, interviews, reviews, and art by both new and established writers and artists.

[1] Its founding editors included Gregory Donovan, Mary Flinn, William Tester, M. A. Keller and Jeff Lodge.

[5] Blackbird has published poems by many poets, including: Seyed Morteza Hamidzadeh, Julia B. Levine, Sarah Rose Nordgren, Dave Smith, Sofia Starnes, Inge Pedersen, Wesley Gibson, Andrew Zawacki, Elizabeth King, Kiki Petrosino, Negar Emrani, Kaveh Akbar, and others.

[7] Blackbird received AP Wire coverage for its publication of a previously unpublished sonnet of Sylvia Plath in their Fall 2006 issue.