09-22-2014, 10:04 AM
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Poets & Writers Literary Magazine List (There are lots of other lists, but this is a good one.)
If you're compulsive (if you want to be 'published' you must be indefatigably pertinacious) then:
1. Find 20 to 50 pubs that are free and available on the web and that
DO NOT EVER REQUEST $$ for submissions or contests.
2. READ them (if you're not willing to spend 2 hours a day for 14 days then go fuck yourself).
3. Find a few that have poems you wish you had written.
4. Write some poems you wish you had written.
5. Submit them.
6. While you are waiting 3 to 12 months, repeat steps 1. through 5.
7. When you get accepted (and if you keep trying you will), CELEBRATE!!!
(Step 4. is the most important as you'll get more pleasure out of that
than any of the rest.)
8. After you've done the above and you've proved you're 'good enough':
smile, relax, and just enjoy writing.
Some other lists:
Poetry Society of America
NewPages
Poetry Mountain
AND, better than all that distraction above, some wonderful poetry:
The Poetry International Foundation
Poets & Writers Literary Magazine List (There are lots of other lists, but this is a good one.)
If you're compulsive (if you want to be 'published' you must be indefatigably pertinacious) then:
1. Find 20 to 50 pubs that are free and available on the web and that
DO NOT EVER REQUEST $$ for submissions or contests.
2. READ them (if you're not willing to spend 2 hours a day for 14 days then go fuck yourself).
3. Find a few that have poems you wish you had written.
4. Write some poems you wish you had written.
5. Submit them.
6. While you are waiting 3 to 12 months, repeat steps 1. through 5.
7. When you get accepted (and if you keep trying you will), CELEBRATE!!!
(Step 4. is the most important as you'll get more pleasure out of that
than any of the rest.)
8. After you've done the above and you've proved you're 'good enough':
smile, relax, and just enjoy writing.
Some other lists:
Poetry Society of America
NewPages
Poetry Mountain
AND, better than all that distraction above, some wonderful poetry:
The Poetry International Foundation
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