What do you need to do to become a poetry writer?

Answer 1

Imagination
good sense of rhythm and rhyme.
good vocabulary and usage of words( for eg.u can use poet instead of poetry writer)

Answer 2

Being a poet is one of the least respected, worst paid professions currently available. Few magazines pay more than $50 per poem - and that poem could have taken you several days to write, as well as the cost of submitting it, maybe to several magazines before you find one that's interested. Poetry collections rarely sell more than 500 copies, with only 1% of people who buy a book or more a month in the UK reporting that they buy poetry.

However, financial gain and community respect are not the motivation of most poets. Most write because they *have* to, because there is something they want to say that can only be expressed in poetic form, because they love poetry and its history, because they believe it's important, because they are part of a community of poets who read and respond to each other's work, because they were inspired by a poet they read or met when they were younger...

It's hard to say what makes a poet: it's not just internal inspiration and talent. Poetry, like music or dance, is hard work. It involves education, practice, awareness, and a willingness to get things wrong and be critiqued. Most poets come from a tradition they were aware of from childhood, which could be through education at school, or it could be a cultural tradition like oral praise poetry in Southern Africa. The forms and vocabulary become part of their way of thinking.

Poets read a lot - they read all the time, and listen to music, and take walks, and watch theatre and sports, and eat food. But it's all being filtered through what is called a "poetic sensibility." This means there's a little bit of their mind that's always listening, thinking and taking notes. You can train yourself to do this -- there's lots of books out there of poetry-writing exercises which are to do with honing these skills:

*sensory, emotional and intellectual awareness of the world
*drawing this awareness into language through a vast knowledge of the sounds, rhythms and meanings of words
*learning poetic forms - how to use them, their history, how to break them - because forms are part of a conversation with the reader; they tell the reader what to expect
*sketching, finishing and editing poems
*listening to criticism and learning from others' work
*keeping a mental or physical list of ideas and impressions

Audre Lorde said that poetry was everyone's art because it can be done with a pencil on the back of a shopping list on a bus. She's right. Poetry requires no technology, no cumbersome manuals, no college degree, no collaborators. Nowadays you can share your work instantly via the internet. What it doesn't require is wanting to be a poet, which is a pose - you need to want to _write poetry_.

Answer 3

If you write poems that criticize President Obama's insurance policies and politics - you'll be located on his enemies record and can instantly turn out to be the goal of his aides as any person to supply bad exposure to. That could get you instant country wide concentration as a psycho conservative easily for giving an trade factor of view that does not believe his. That's the nice method.

Answer 4

Write poetry!

Answer 5

Write, write and write! Thats my motto, try to write about your feels, and what you feel like writing. Anykind of poetry in any categories from romantic to opinions are what everyone is reading these days. Long or short, rhymes or even just plain old poem works.
Good luck,

Answer 6

Write poems. That's all. But to become a published poet, you need one more thing: either the money to pay for publication or an "angel" who will pay to have them published.

Poetry is not a very lucrative field. You can go to work for a greeting card company, I suppose . . .

Answer 7

Write poetry.

Answer 8

you need to write poetry - that's it. whether it's good or poular time will tell. I write poetry, and consider myself a poet. People seem to like it, but it's not like I'm necessarily going to be wildly popular.

Answer 9

Nouns and verbs.

Adjectives and adverbs are optional.

Edit: The people who rated this down don't know anything about poetry (or writing in general). Follow my advice. Your writing will improve because of it.

Answer 10

The ability to turn emotion into imagery, and a love for language.