Well, Jennifer, thanks for stopping by, and thanks for the compliment, I agree with you that we all need to make poetry better. Personally, I'm willing to take all the help I can get. In fact, I'd be happy just to make a few good poems.
But you know, honestly, I don't think that all of the contests are a big scam. I don't even think most of them are. Probably as far as ethics go, foetry is right that professors shouldn't pick their ex-students in contests that charge cash to enter. But frankly, the few times I've entered a contest and not had my manuscript selected as the big winner, I mean, honestly, the manuscript selected--whether through crony-ism or through some other less questionable process--was better than mine.
When I've got a good book together, maybe then I'll change my tune. Or maybe one of my buddies will offer to publish it.
For whatever it's worth, I think rejection is a little bit like the weather.
There are some excellent mechanisms by which you can find your poetry getting 'out there' but the established, tried and trusted, route is by submitting to the plethora of renowned literary magazines which exist - in the UK stuff like PN Review, for example, or Poetry London. x
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Well, Jennifer, thanks for stopping by, and thanks for the compliment, I agree with you that we all need to make poetry better. Personally, I'm willing to take all the help I can get. In fact, I'd be happy just to make a few good poems.
But you know, honestly, I don't think that all of the contests are a big scam. I don't even think most of them are. Probably as far as ethics go, foetry is right that professors shouldn't pick their ex-students in contests that charge cash to enter. But frankly, the few times I've entered a contest and not had my manuscript selected as the big winner, I mean, honestly, the manuscript selected--whether through crony-ism or through some other less questionable process--was better than mine.
When I've got a good book together, maybe then I'll change my tune. Or maybe one of my buddies will offer to publish it.
For whatever it's worth, I think rejection is a little bit like the weather.
There are some excellent mechanisms by which you can find your poetry getting 'out there' but the established, tried and trusted, route is by submitting to the plethora of renowned literary magazines which exist - in the UK stuff like PN Review, for example, or Poetry London. x
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