You might try the following list given to me by Nancy Pinard of the Antioch Writers Workshop which contains links to Publications open to "Formalist Poetry:
http://www.ramblingrose.com/poetry/formalpubs.html
Thanks, James, for the list---most useful. What I've been finding out there matches your experience: the FO publications are either long gone or practically so. And I don't think a single one of them were ever used in Poetry Daily or Verse Daily ... how many formal or traditional poems were ever picked up in BAP?
As I understand it, the concern of the New Formalists was purely technical---the form of the content, and not the content itself. Poetry as the sharpest most distilled form of expression, a vessel to impart meaning, was not their interest at all ... so the NF were as anti-classical as any of the "describe some moment of my experience---in free verse" majority.
In fact when you look around at what's published today, the whole idea is so completely different that you should be able to write a traditional poem or try for classical art and submit it to any of the journals who welcome "experimental" poetry, and they should welcome it as the refreshingly unique thing that it is today, hailing you the tiny minority whose work is unrepresented anywhere ... but as you might have discovered, "experimental" means only to play around in certain obvious, expected ways---certain experiments are always taboo, expressly forbidden.
Moreover, my experience with those sites listed as FF (formal friendly), which includes Poetry Magazine and other print journals, is that that they are NOT very friendly at all, particularly if the poems are "Traditional" as opposed to merely "Formalist".
This has also been my experience, and that of others. There is a strong prejudice against classical poetry, and this prejudice is held universally by the journals---for all the claims of accepting "traditional" or "formal" poetry, you won't find a single one of them printing a single poem in a traditional form. And this is also held by the journals who tout their "eclecticism" or "diversity"---seems the louder they claim a commitment to diversity, the more hostile to tradition the outlet or venue will be. No editor wants to print something so different that all the other editors will laugh at. I'm not surprised, because this attitude matches the mainstream attitude of the times---there is a widespread prejudice and bigotry against all classical art today, just as there is this widespread talk of "inclusion for all".
But I'm surprised that there aren't any pre-counterculture holdouts left. Or that there isn't more intelligent, public discourse on this subject. Any classical revolution in poetry today won't be chronicled in the so-called "top" venues: Poetry Magazine, the Poetry Foundation, and other print journals who say that they are open to "all forms of poetry" or who say that "it is the quality of the poem that is our first consideration"---including The Atlantic Monthly and the Paris Review---are very bigoted against classical poetry. You will just collect form letters from them, no matter what your credentials.
Never has poetry been so shunned by the populace as it has today. The joke is how just about the only people who read poetry are the very academics who write and teach it, and I think the reason for this has everything to do with what is being called poetry today. Since the counterculture, the very nature of what is called poetry has changed. Before, most newspapers and magazines printed poetry, because people obtained meaning from it---it enriched their lives in a very real, meaningful way that today's poetry cannot do. And whether consciously or not, I believe that people know this. They can't be fleeced, so they just don't read poetry---they know it isn't worth their time (and it isn't), so the mainstream newspapers and magazines and web sites of today don't print it. But the shame is that people are also unaware of what poetry can do, they don't have any connection to the classics, and our civilization is carrying on without it to its peril.
Thanks for the link to your poems.
