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A Foolproof Guide to Getting Your Poems Published—While Having Fun!

By Susan Rich 24 Comments

How to Publish Your Poems and Have Fun - Susan Rich - Tweetspeak Poetry

Susan Rich found a way to enjoy the task of submitting poems, playing a form of the license plate game. You, too, can get your poems published and have fun.

Filed Under: Blog, Coloring Page Poems, Getting Published, Writing Life

Every Day Ideas: Poem Pinups

By L.L. Barkat 5 Comments

Poem Pinups Billy Collins Hunger Poem

Now, when you share pictures of your Every Day Poem pinups, we’ll save them for possible inclusion in a special “Every Day Ideas” ebook in 2015.

Filed Under: Blog, Every Day Ideas, Every Day Poems, Getting Published

Poets and Poems: Ron Padgett and “Collected Poems”

By Glynn Young 3 Comments

Confessions of a Serial Writer - gravel road and blue sky

“Collected Poems” by Ron Padgett covers more than 50 years of work, summing up a life lived in the creation of poetry.

Filed Under: Funny Poems, Getting Published, Humorous Poems, Poems, Poems about poetry, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets

Author Platform: Where to Start

By Jane Friedman 17 Comments

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You know you need to build an author platform. Where should you begin? (Or end.)

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Get Featured in Our How to Read a Poem Top 10!

By L.L. Barkat 8 Comments

Toby and How to Read a Poem 565

Would you like to get featured in some of our upcoming How to Read a Poem Top 10s? Tweet your ideas, your poems, or your pictures to @tspoetry.

Filed Under: Blog, Getting Published, Top 10 Poetic Picks

Poets and Poems: Seamus Heaney

By Glynn Young 12 Comments

poets and poems Seamus Heaney

Appreciating poets and poems even more by reading Seamus Heaney’s “Opened Ground” alongside Frank O’Driscoll’s “Stepping Stones, ” whose interviews add depth to the poems.

Filed Under: article, book reviews, Books, Getting Published, Interviews, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets, Seamus Heaney

Dr. Seuss: Embracing the Creatures Within

By L.L. Barkat 7 Comments

dr seuss

What would you do if you were voted Least Likely to Succeed? This is what Dr. Suess did.

Filed Under: Blog, Children's Authors, Getting Published

Getting Published: Robert Frost

By L.L. Barkat 23 Comments

Getting Published Book Image

Getting published takes time. Not that this needs to be the goal for every writer, but if we are on a mission like Robert Frost, we should expect cost and passage.

Filed Under: Blog, Getting Published, Robert Frost

Build Your Writing, Then Move In

By Mick Silva 6 Comments

Writing Hammer

It may not seem so, but in their early days of writing, all writers were builders.

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Disturbed? Every Writer Should Be

By Mick Silva 10 Comments

disturbed writer

Do you realize what a rare opportunity you have? And do you see what the world would never know if it wasn’t for you as a writer, and you alone?

Filed Under: Blog, Getting Published, writer's group resources

5 Reasons Your Poems Get Rejected

By Mlekoday 5 Comments

A poem ought to be more than just a collection of assorted images. What is your poem doing? What does it add up to? How is it governed? • Five tips from the Indiana Review to help keep your next poem from rejection.

Filed Under: Blog, Getting Published, Poems, poetry, poetry teaching resources

Poems by L.L. Barkat to be Published

By Glynn Young 7 Comments

On Notice of “To Be Published.” A congratulatory poem for a maker of poems.

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