Published by admin on 15th September 2009
So you want to publish poetry? Or perhaps you’ve already got a few poems under your belt but you’re looking for some new techniques and tactics towards competing and seeing your name in print. Now what? Where do go from here? Well, let’s get started!
FIND A MENTOR: Before sending anything out, be sure your work is up to standards. I knew there was much about the craft/art of poetry that I had not learned in classes or from magazines etc. I wanted the competitive edge and the best way to meet that goal was to go to a professional poet with a long publication history and credentials. Fortunately many professors of poetry will hire themselves out to work with you on a one-on-one independent basis. This means you will have to be prepared to invest some money. I worked one on one with various professors from the creative writing/poetry departments of such universities as U.C.S.C, Shippensburg University, Cabrillo College among others. I paid them between 25.00 and 50.00 an hr. depending upon their fee requirements. level of experience, etc. Most poetry professors love to share their knowledge in the poetry field as an independent tutor/advisor/editor with an ambitious, promising poet. If you cannot find a professor of poetry/literature to assist then I would suggest joining the online version of Poets and Writers Magazine. They have many listings regularly of award winning editors from various noted magazines, etc who would be willing to coach you and edit for you. You might feel demeaned in some ways by taking this route if you’re an egoist, but a good poet never stops learning or seeking new and better techniques.
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Published by admin on 14th September 2009
Contemporary poetry delves into a broad range of settings, emotions and forms with a tendency to focus on modest subject matter as well as the blissful side of life. Such poetry is accessible to all as it enables the reader to introspect by coming to know a variety of free-form styles utilizing bricolage, the combination of a variety of themes. Lines tend to be less measured than those in traditional poetry, and lines, as well as stanzas, are broken up almost randomly, or so it seems, with additional utilization of enjambment.
Contemporary poetry relies more upon abstracting ideas from the minds of the readers who fill in details rather than relying upon the direct statements by the all-knowing, traditional poet. It tends to embrace discontinuous narrative as opposed to following strict structural guidelines and occasionally addresses negative thoughts and ugly pictures in common language that is easily understood by the reader. Contemporary poetry is at times opposed to traditional themes of art and utilizes words that may be shocking to some. Deep thoughts and symbolism are freely represented in concise language. One should not, however, suggest that contemporary poetry is always written in a specific manner because poets have at all times been and will always be free to break all rules and implicit guidelines.
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Published by admin on 13th September 2009
Is poetry too complicated for the average reader? Is it too cryptic, scholarly? If you ask a large group of average people what they like or don’t like about poetry, you’ll get a few different answers, but there is an overwhelmingly common category of responses.
One of the main reasons that people say they aren’t addicted to contemporary poetry is that they feel it is too cryptic. The language, they say, isn’t tangible. Despite the fact that there are a great many contemporary poets out there writing and performing poetry that appeals to the non-cryptic taste of many would-be enthusiasts, this poetry isn’t highly visible in the popular media.
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