Poet Power! The Practical Poet's Complete Guide to Getting Published (and Self-Published)

By Thomas A. Williams

Poet Power: The Complete Guide to Getting Your Poetry Published is the complete guide to publishing poetry and a motivational gem for every poet. It's a must-read for aspiring poets and published... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1878853279
• ISBN13: 9781878853271
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Venture Pr
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Poet Power by T. Williams

Most helpful! Learned a great deal from his suggestions! Highly recommend to poets looking for some good suggestions to use if wanting to publish.

Power to the Poets!

This is the book you want to get if you need lots of information on getting your poetry into print or marketing your poetry if you are self-publishing. It has lots of good info and ideas I would not have thought of...A couplet: It's a Great Book, Do take a look!

Reader-friendly, authoritative and accurate

Thomas Williams' Poet Power!: The Practical Poet's Complete Guide To Getting Published covers every aspect and facet of the process of submitting poetry for publication. Williams explains how the business of publishing works and provides a crash course in the economics of publishing and what it means to the aspiring poet seeking publication. Poet Power! goes on to explain what editors want and the "7 Secrets" of publishable poetry; how to get published in magazines; how to have a volume of poetry published; designing and publishing one's own books of poetry; becoming the editor of one's own chapbook series; selling poetry in bookstores, retail outlets, and catalogs; gaining personal visibility in order to succeed as a published poet; and how to enhanced one's reputation as a published poet in order to achieve worthwhile goals and becoming a spokesperson for poetry in the community. "Must" reading for all aspiring poets yearning to break into print, and for published poets seeking to expand their literary audiences, Poet Power! is reader friendly, authoritative and accurate, comprehensive and practical.