Poetry debut, seeking the right option to start with?

Question

I'm writing poetry but until now, I've never published my works. I would like to know what the most possible and advantageous strategy would be: should I contact a publisher, post my works on my blog on Internet or self-publish a book that I then try to sell on my own? I don't have hundreds of poems ready and since they all follow the same pattern creating a wholeness, I wouldn't really like the idea of publishing just a few of them on internet (since I don't think I could then publish them later on in a book). Because of the way they've been written, I would like to publish them all together since they are not separate but really consolidate each other. I would also like to know where to find someone to give feedback on poetry. Publishers hardly comment on works they are not intending to publish. Thank you for any piece of advice in advance!

Answer 1

There are poetry workshps all over. Check out


www.poetz.com for a multitude of resources.

Answer 2

I actually originally started training from a book (The Koehler Method of Dog Training) and titled a couple of dogs with that. Then I started working with the neighborhood dogs, and I was working with an Irish Wolfhound that needed socializing. I'd been to a fun match at a training club, so I called and asked if I could bring the dog to socialize up there. I went and enjoyed watching the classes and was invited to join in, and then I signed up for some. The trainer/owner was an excellent "old style" trainer who loved the dogs and could really get them to work for him, so I was fortunate to have found a good place to train. I ended up attending most classes and assisting with quite a few. I started moving on with my training methods when I read Winnifred Strickland's book, followed a few years later by Diane Baumannn. Eventually the orignal trainer and I had a falling out (not training related), and I moved on to another club. I've worked with several different instructors and learned a variety of techniques, as well as continuing to read on the subject. I was also pretty lucky when I started doing agility, I'd heard the facility recommended so I gave them a call and asked about training a basset hound. The instructor's reaction was "kewl!" We recieved excellent instruction there, and I would still be going except that I changed jobs and can't take my dogs to work any more, so to get to class I would have to make an hour's drive home to get the dog, then 1 1/2 hours in the opposite direction to class, then 1 1/2 hours back home. Just not feasible. I like my new instructor too, but it's not quite the same. After the amount of time I've spent training in this area, I know most of the instructors and whether I'd want to work with them. And I'd guess most of them have at least heard of me, since there's not a lot of people competing with basset hounds in the performance events.

Answer 3

Write to [e-mail] to get quick and easy reviews of your poetry. Also, check out Creative Communications, Dover Publishing, Warner Books Publishing, and the League of American Poets.

Answer 4

There is a book that is called poets market that you can buy at just about nay bookstore that will help you find publishers taht are into poetry books, alos lit mags taht publish individual poems. That's how I get mine published.

Answer 5

well I am not sure myself but that is my goal as well , I am a writer of poetry and I have been adding them into my blogs . So if you get a good answer please let me know so I can follow my dream to get my work published as well...good luck to you!

Answer 6

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What you can charge is determined by your experience, reputation, and accomplishments and in a case like this, should also include guaranteed expectations. Just working with dogs over several years, is not the experience that is necessary to be a dog trainer. There are too many people who are putting that title to their name and fleecing the public. Don t be one of them.

Answer 7

i want to write a book myself


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