According to the 2008 Poets Market, many publications will not publish poetry that has previously been published, and that includes online sites like this one! I stopped blogging my own poetry after I read that, because I'd like to see my poetry in print someday. It seems to me that most folks don't care about being published in magazines or whatever, but if you are the exception, then I'd suggest that you take a look at the Poets Market and refrain from prematurely publishing your poetry on the internet. Anyway, I just thought I'd put that out there...

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thanks for the info and good luck to ya

Thanks for the heads up. I am such a novice poet I am not even considering submitting any for publishing.

Thanks for the thought If I could write poetry I would think about it. But I only write stories

I have wondered what you write.

Thanks

Yes, but if you look at the criteria for those publications they are generally rather rigid in many of their publishing ethics. I also own the Poets Market, 2008 and there are literally thousands of publications that are open to works that have been published online. It's true that most wont publish a piece that has been published already on paper, but again, if you can weed through it, there are some publications that will cross publish. It depends on whatever kind of contract you sign as well. But you are right. The Poets Market has excellent references and guides to help fledging writers. Same with Writer's Market. It's nice that you shared the markets here. I have never thought to do that, and it is a very handy tool

Yah, the Poets Market is handy, but I must admit that I was a bit disappointed when I tried to submit my poems and discovered that a fair number of the e-mail addresses and/or websites weren't active anymore. I thought it would be a cinch to get SOMETHING published since there are tons of small zines and things like that listed, but so far I haven't had any luck with it. But, then again, I've only tried submitting about 8 poems so far... Hmmm...

Keep trying. It does work eventually.

www.createspace.com

www.lulu.com

I've used Lulu.com for a bunch of things, and I like it a lot. The prices seem to have gone up a little bit there, but they're still pretty good. One thing that I like about LULU.com is that they let me make my music available to my friends for free. I just send my friends links to my songs, and they can download my songs for free! That's pretty convenient! I've never used Createspace.com, but they look about the same as Lulu.com. Back to the original topic though, keep in mind that when you self publish with Lulu.com it may still interfere with your chance of being published by certain magazines! As a poet, I want to share my work with people and get feedback and whatnot, but I don't want to ruin my chances of being published in magazines - the only way to have a book of my poetry published (other than self publishing it - which is pretty limited in scope) is to build a portfolio of published poetry - and I really really want to have a book of my poetry published someday! It's all very frustrating,and to top if off, I often feel like my poetry sucks (even though I labor over it obsessively)... yeah it's very discouraging!