I've been doing some spring cleaning this week and came across a few pieces I wrote some years ago. I thought it would be interesting to maybe submit some of my writing to a magazine or a website just to see what kind of response I would get. Anyone here ever done this before?
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Anyone here write poetry? Have you been published?
- Thread starter Arkitech
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Yes and yes.
It's far easier to get published that one might imagine, given enough time and effort. There are (or at least were) tons and tons of venues from small 'zines to myriad academic publications through any number of local and regional newspapers, magazines and published collections.
I never submitted anything myself, and was only published when an editor heard my work and requested it.
It's far easier to get published that one might imagine, given enough time and effort. There are (or at least were) tons and tons of venues from small 'zines to myriad academic publications through any number of local and regional newspapers, magazines and published collections.
I never submitted anything myself, and was only published when an editor heard my work and requested it.
HardcoreRobot
Lifer
im pretty sure some people hear have written pomes, not sure on publishing though.
Drako
Lifer
LOL :thumbsup:
You should have known it was a scam by the web address.
Gibson486
Lifer
Well, it's not a complete scam....
My gf actually got $150 from it by winning their monthly competition. She just submitted a poem and got a check in the mail. No money was given from her end.
Everyone else, however, they just get a letter stating that they were not picked, but they would be featured in the "special book"
As to the OP, yes and yes. It is a long story, full of triumphs and tradgedy, but I will try and make it short for you. Maybe you could even possibly take something away from it, some sort of inspiration to help you persevere and reach your goal:
I was in grade-school at the time. I was obviously much more advanced than the rest of my class. Could it be because I was so good at 4th grade, that they wanted me to do it again? Nobody can say for sure.
The assignment was "go home and write a Haiku." Now because I am not Japanese, I obviously had no idea what this alien sounding term meant. But after grasping the concept, I turned in my work. That is when the fire-storm started.
At first I thought this was just another "average" work. But soon after handing my piece of notebook paper (It was the lined paper in the ringed binder, so it had all extra crap on the left side after I ripped it out) to the teacher with my scribbled poem, I realized it may have been something special.
Not more than 48 hours later, she had me read it aloud in class. What was the significance of me being the 11th person called to read theirs? At the time, I was not sure.
Finally, the payday came. When she handed back my frayed piece of paper, I had to do a double-take. Written in red ink, plain as day, was a "Check Plus". Not a check. Not a check minus. The only thing that made it more special was a gold star sticker that was on it also. I frantically scanned my neighbor's papers, and didn't see another one.
Then it was published on my fridge with a Real Estate advertisement magnet, for at least a month.
I hope this helps.
I was in grade-school at the time. I was obviously much more advanced than the rest of my class. Could it be because I was so good at 4th grade, that they wanted me to do it again? Nobody can say for sure.
The assignment was "go home and write a Haiku." Now because I am not Japanese, I obviously had no idea what this alien sounding term meant. But after grasping the concept, I turned in my work. That is when the fire-storm started.
At first I thought this was just another "average" work. But soon after handing my piece of notebook paper (It was the lined paper in the ringed binder, so it had all extra crap on the left side after I ripped it out) to the teacher with my scribbled poem, I realized it may have been something special.
Not more than 48 hours later, she had me read it aloud in class. What was the significance of me being the 11th person called to read theirs? At the time, I was not sure.
Finally, the payday came. When she handed back my frayed piece of paper, I had to do a double-take. Written in red ink, plain as day, was a "Check Plus". Not a check. Not a check minus. The only thing that made it more special was a gold star sticker that was on it also. I frantically scanned my neighbor's papers, and didn't see another one.
Then it was published on my fridge with a Real Estate advertisement magnet, for at least a month.
I hope this helps.
zinfamous
No Lifer
Trust me, OP, you do NOT have to pay a fee to eventually get published.
It helps that (perhaps you've noticed) people's understanding of what constitutes good poetry is all over the damn map!
I've heard trancendent, deep, finely hewn, first class, "blow you away" poetry in random, run-down, inauspicious, small poetry gatherings from complete unknowns and I've seen the most turgid and meretricious claptrap published in the likes of The Atlantic and The New Yorker.
So go figure.
If you have written something of any merit whatsoever, some editor somewhere will publish it, I guarantee you.
It helps that (perhaps you've noticed) people's understanding of what constitutes good poetry is all over the damn map!
I've heard trancendent, deep, finely hewn, first class, "blow you away" poetry in random, run-down, inauspicious, small poetry gatherings from complete unknowns and I've seen the most turgid and meretricious claptrap published in the likes of The Atlantic and The New Yorker.
So go figure.
If you have written something of any merit whatsoever, some editor somewhere will publish it, I guarantee you.
Care to share her poem with us here? I'm intensely curious to see what won their monthly competition. If not in this thread, (pearls before swine and all, I more than understand), then perhaps to me by pm?
On a side note, just about every year, I do enter the Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest:
He's the guy who actually began his 1830 masterpiece, "It was a dark and stormy night!"
Sniff. Don't think I've ever come close to winning , though. 🙁
Gibson486
Lifer
I will try to find it. She wrote YEARSSSSS ago...before she even met me. I know Poetry.com actually stores old poems, so maybe it's still there...
Kanalua
Diamond Member
a guy i worked with in college used to brag about having a poem of his published through a pay to play scheme like poetry.com. All of us co-workers of his tried to explain to him that it was a scam, but he wouldn't hear any of it. He was published and obviously better than all of us.
COOL! I'm keenly curious.
Gibson486
Lifer
PM sent....at least I think I sent it....there is no way of confirming....
I totally bought into that poetry book bullshit contest when I was like 10-11 and my parents were like "lolol, it's a scam you dumbass."
I haven't written anything in years, but I was probably among the best writers in the department when I graduated Penn State. I had a couple poems and a short story published, but I feel like it barely counts since it was a regional lit magazine that my friend was trying to get off the ground (and if I remember right, he got a grant for it but it folded after like a year)
I haven't written anything in years, but I was probably among the best writers in the department when I graduated Penn State. I had a couple poems and a short story published, but I feel like it barely counts since it was a regional lit magazine that my friend was trying to get off the ground (and if I remember right, he got a grant for it but it folded after like a year)
Many, many lit and poetry mags are like that, and many of them are/were damn decent nevertheless.
If you still have your poem, would you care to share it, either here or by pm?
mmntech
Lifer
As long as you follow submission guidelines, you'll be fine. All magazines list them somewhere. Don't expect to make any money off it though. You're lucky if you get $1/word. Make sure it's a reputable publication. Lot of people scam poets. Steal their work and make money off it without compensating or even acknowledging the author.
Got it, thanks! :thumbsup:
grrl
Diamond Member
Not to mention what gets read on NPR.
As others have mentioned, it's fairly easy to get published. I have several friends who are "published poets."
QueBert
Lifer
About 10 years ago they picked one of my poems, I never pre-ordered the book because I was a cheap ass. And it never came out. Before I knew it was a scam I had met a girl and we went out and I told her about my poem getting in a book, I was bragging a little, and she tells me the same thing except they were going to put hers on a CD too. BLAH
fuckers.
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Like all art forms I'm sure
Indeed, to some extent, always: De gustibus non est disputandum.
However, and this may be in part because I'm most familiar with poetry, I firmly believe poetry is more "all over the map" than, say, music.
My analogy would be seeing Friday featured on a dead nuts serious "best of" list for serious song lyrics and Rebecca Black being a consensus critic's pick for most important new voice in song writing while some guy named Zimmerman remained forever consigned to fighting for his 15 minutes at Wednesday open mic night at Benny's Belly Up Bar in Hibberd, Minnesota.
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