how do i get my poems published?

Question

im an upcoming poet/song writer & just tryin to get my name out there, but 1st i want to make sure my work is copyrighted

Answer 1

Once you get your poems copywritten...you can create a book of works that you can sell or a pamphlet that you can hand out...with a picture of you and 2-3 poems, with a lil something about yourself. Or you can go through the headache of trying to find an editor. I would suggest that if you have any connection to any university out there...hit up the english department. Build a relationship with someone there....they can over look your pieces and provide feedback. A lot of professors, especially in english have publisher persons in their circles...If you are really serious about being out there use all venues you can. That means, create your books or pamphlets, use the university, go to open mic joints, try out for the poetry jam, Hold poetry joints at your house if possible....get your work out there...develop your own site and create business cards....

Hope this helps

Write on!!!

Earth

Answer 2

try poetbay.com


PoetBay is a poetry webpage where you can publish your poems and short stories.

This webpage started as a nonprofit webpage to provide a safe haven for authors interesting in publishing their texts. The original website www.poeter.se is reserved for the Swedish speaking/writing audience. It has several thousands of users, and contains more than 200 000 texts.

Our ambition is to make PoetBay a meeting place for English speaking/writing authors interested in publishing and improving their texts. One of the most important aspects is to enable authors to receive feedback on their works and thereby develop their skills. We also hope to provide a positive climate where you can enjoy the company of likeminded companions.

PoetBay.com uses considerable resources such as bandwidth, internet servers, and databases. To help cover the costs of operating PoetBay.com you may choose to contribute as a PoetBay.com supporter. By becoming a PoetBay.com supporter you will not only share the financial costs of operating this site, your contribution also motivates the developers to continue maintaining and developing PoetBay.com. Thank you!

If you register as an ordinary member, which is free, you may not only view poems and texts written by other members, you can also publish your own texts. In addition, you can write comments to others poems, send messages to the other members as well as bookmark your favorite poems.

If you choose to become a supportive member, you may in addition to publish your texts also create and publish exhibitions containing photographs, drawings and art. PoetBay supporters are also allowed to publish an unlimited number of texts each week (limited to five text per week for normal members) as well as being provided with a html-editor for writing and editing texts. The limit on the number of messages saved is also raised to 500 messages.
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