(07-07-2013, 07:04 AM)Vistaldust Wrote: I would like to start a thread here to see if there are those who have been published, wish to get published, and how your journey has been.....if you care to share. I'll start.....a year ago I sent a bunch of poems to different publications, and I was rejected by all but one - A little booklet called Conceit magazine....no pay of course. I realize those poems all sucked, even the one that was printed.you're lucky, most don't realise that their poetry often sucks.
most of mine sucks, i had two poem published in an ezine and on cd, they weren't great but they weren't too bad, beside them i'm lucky if i've wrote two or three poems that don't suck. poets work in the art of suck.
milo did a thread on self publishing here's some ins and outs while i'd only advise genuinely good poets or poets who'd like to give the family a gift go this route, it is a great idea for your poetry storage, Just don't brag about it if you use it for such
(07-07-2013, 07:43 AM)Vistaldust Wrote: Leanne, thank you for taking the time to contribute. I will check out the publications you mentioned. I have read a lot of poems in the New Yorker and some of that stuff seems so abstract that I don't know how to even begin to interpret it. I found a website called 'Shmoop'. It helps interpret difficult popular poems. I want to be able to interpret poetry without help, eventually, but I need to start somewhere. I have the poem, Howl, by Ginsberg. I put it down rather quickly until I came upon this site. Once it explained his style, it quickly became readable. Do you read classic poetry to help with your writing, or do you think it can trap a writer into habits that affect writing for publication?read any and all poetry and as much of it as you can. sadly i can't put suff on the site that's 50 year old or younger, apart from an odd poem or two but we do have load of work by earlier poets in voice and text. just try and interpret what you can and mull over what you can't but not for too long.
(07-07-2013, 07:55 AM)rowens Wrote: I haven't read much literary criticism lately, other than what's on here. But in the '90s, I read all the criticism books in the libraries that I could find. The early 20th century critics and before. They could trick you into liking stuff.even a site like this can trick people that way. specially if we become friends with people here. all we can do and try and stand back and look at the poem as if it has no ties to anyone we actually know. feedback like poetry is something we should be discerning about, we get a really pleasant piece of feedback and sometimes feel we should reciprocate.