Does anyone know how to get your poems published for free and for real, not some scam.?

Answer 1

Join or start a writers group and publish your own group's writing or poetry. There are poets being published by you'll need to find an agent to promote you and they aren't cheap either. Good luck though.

Answer 2

There are just three easy steps:
1) Write poems.
2) Send your poems to publishers that buy poetry.
3) Repeat the above as often as possible.

Along the way, you will learn what works and what doesn't, make connections, and see at least some of your poems in print "for real".

Answer 3

Go to the library and find magazines that have poems. There's the Atlantic Monthly, and I think the New Yorker has them, too. There are others. Some women's magazines also carry poems. And, there are literary magazines published by colleges that have poems, too. (You may have to go to a university library to find these.)

Figure out which magazine has poems that are the closest to what you write. Then, check to see if the magazine has a webpage. They should post the "writers' guidelines" and tell you how to send a poem to them. If they don't have a website, you'll have to write to them. The address should be *somewhere* in the magazine -- most likely on the page that tells who the editor and staff are.

Good luck!

Answer 4

You can publish poems at www.poetry.com,
its free,enter to win a monthly cash prize
and if you poem is really good they will publish it in their series collections. Unfortunately you do not get any royalties if your poem is published.

You can also publish your poems at Lulu.com.

Lulu is fast, easy and free
Publish and sell easily within minutes.
No set-up fees. No minimum order.
Keep control of the rights.
Set your own price.
Each product is printed as it is ordered.
No excess inventory

Answer 5

All publishing should by definition not only be "free," but if your work is actually publishable you should get paid for it. grab a copy of Writer's Digest, The Writer, or Poets & Writers and get a list of potential markets. FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES for submission, and only submit to appropriate publications (for example, don't send love poems to a horror magazine!).

Answer 6

Send them tho the New Yorker Magazine. They will either pay you handsomely or tell you your poems aren't good enough.

Your public library reference desk should have a copy of "Writer's Market", which lists all the magazines in the USA that accept free-lance poetry.

You could start a blog. The web counts as publishing. That way people could read them for free.

Answer 7

Try Readers Digest, If they publish it in their monthly magazine they will pay you for it.

Answer 8

you can try poetry .com

Answer 9

you can post your poems in this site called "POETRY.COM"