Publish Your Poetry! Poetry Opportunities for Poets & Writers

What Poetry Publishers are Looking for

Vol. 2 Your Online Source for Poetry and Freelance Writing Publishing Opportunities Issue 10

Poetry Tip of the Week:

........By Rachel Miller

Helping Poets and Freelance Writers Get Published

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Although most Poetry Publishers will
have their own unique, individual
poetry publishing needs, here are 4
basic and industry-accepted poetry
publishing guidelines to help you
publish your poetry:

1. Poetry about real life and issues
that people can relate to is generally
easier to get published than deep,
philosophical poetry, unless you
intend to submit it to the scholarly
publications for consideration. Of
course, there is a market for deeper,
introspective poetry, but its not as big
as the market for general poetry, and
therefore not as easy to get published.

2. Poetry that deals directly with the
overall theme of the publication will
naturally have a greater appeal to the
readership, and therefore will be
sought after by the Poetry Publishers,

Publishing your poetry is a lot easier to
do when you have a good idea as to
what it is, specifically, that the Poetry
Publishers are looking for.

There are so many magazines on the
market today that publish poetry, that it
would be impossible to list them all
here. But Poetry P ublishers all share
one common need when it comes to
publishing poetry: they all want good,
original poetry that will fit in well with
what their readership enjoys. And of
course, the best way to see what each
magazine's readers like to read is to look
through a few past issues.

And to make it easy for freelance writers
and poets, magazines are happy to send
you their free writer's guidelines, to let
you know what they'd like to publish.

which should help make it easier for
you to get your poetry published.

3. Short poems are generally easier
to publish than long poems. That's
not to say that Poetry Publishers and
editors wouldn't necessarily
appreciate the greatness of a longer
poem, because they most likely
would. It's just that they have limited
space to work with, so poets and
freelance writers are generally
advised to keep their poems to
somewhere between 12 and 24
lines, and always to a maximum of
one page.

4. This is probably the most important
point to remember for all poets and ...