How did Anthology of Poetry get its start?
Looking for ways to enrich students who have a love for writing and to inspire new writers, we created the Anthology of Poetry in 1989. We began as a forum to identify great student poetry and shared these wonderful works through our books. In 2002, we added the short story anthology so students could also write in this genre. 2. What are the differences between the Anthology of Poetry and a vanity press? The Anthology of Poetry reads every submission, evaluates each one using selective criteria and chooses approximately 55% for publication. There is no requirement to buy a book from us in order to be published. In contrast, a vanity press may run a “contest” to receive writing entries, and will publish the entries of the writers who purchase books. 3. How are poems and short stories selected for publication? We use a number of criteria to make our selections. First we group submissions by the age of the writer. Younger children are judged with less stringent requirements. As the age o
