How can I have my poetry published in a book or magazine?
How to Publish a Book of Poetry By Carol Tilley-Williams Instructions Assessing Your Work, Avoiding Scams, and Proper Submissions Step1 Reach out to many people. Poetry is written from an intensely personal perspective. While it is unavoidably personal, it must also reach out to many people who are coming at life from many different angles in order to be considered for publication. Judging ones own poem is rather like judging your child’s first piano recital. Why can’t others see the brilliance as clearly as you! However, publishers are not attached to the heartfelt reasons you wrote each poem with such a personal longing. They are looking for poetry that speaks on its own, once it has left your paternal hands. Judge your poetry as objectively as possible. This gives you the best approach for editing or even discarding a poem. After all, once you begin the process of searching for publication of your poems, only the strongest ones will survive and even then, many will not. It is a comp
