The Poet's Survival Guide
The Poet's Survival Guide
"The Poet's Survival Guide" contains 14 essential chapters for new or established poets trying to earn and make a living with poetry. Poetry journals and magazines are well known for paying in copies, which is nice if you like most poets enjoy reading. However, this doesn't pay the bills. If you are able to explore all forms of the craft, your odds increase as to your likelihood of getting published ... and paid! The Poet's Survival Guide will give you an insight into the tools you need (and probably already have) to make a decent living or a fair amount of extra income at writing poetry or writing in forms similar to poetry.
This popular ebook for poets includes many links to poetry publishing and writing resources.
The readers who buy poetry and/or just read it are few and far between, but there is a market for it out there. More importantly, there can be a market for you as a poet in your own home town. Plus there are other ways you can use your skills for writing poems to earn money with poetry related writings. The nice thing about poetry is that the investment of time and work for the poet or writer is minimal compared to something like a novel or screenplay which can take years to finish - not to mention how much longer it can take to get them published. People who read poetry tend to make up a diverse audience which means they also tend to be widely read. Why not take your poetry and parlay it into other writing venues besides poetry as well as into paying poetry publications?
From Chapter 7 -- "Poetry Slams, Readings and Reviews": Poetry Slams, Readings, Reviews and Open Mike nights are not just about performing your poetry or about being seen. They are first and foremost a way for you to build an audience and to get free PR for your work. With the Slams, Readings, and Open Mike nights you want to make sure that you have a chapbook for sale! This is a great place to have your favorite loved ones, friends, or co-workers who owe you a favor set up a space to sell your chapbooks. People will buy poetry books, and chapbooks at these venues. They're there in the first place because they like poetry for the most part. It's hard to find an audience for poetry, so these are perfect places to maximize your potential poetry sales.
From Chapter 10 -- "Your Own Poetry Publication": If you're an experienced poet then you've certainly come across a wide variety of poetry publications. If you're still new at it, you're in for a eye-opener as to what others consider a publishable form. Or, there's no limit as to what you can publish on your own these days! That's good news for you, especially if you're into performing your poetry at night clubs or wherever and want to have copies of your work (or your work plus other's work) to sell so you can make some money! Remember when you used to do book reports in school? Well, it's as simple as that to make up your own poetry publication. Keep in mind, you'll probably never get any awards for it or any recognition at all, but the important thing is that you will be sharing poetry with people you know and making some money to boot.
From Chapter 11 -- "Greeting Cards and Fillers": If you're new to poetry or are naturally a humorist, you may find this a good (and lucrative) place to start! Fillers are usually very short poems of 2-8 lines found in various magazines to do just that - fill up space! Most magazines are looking for something light-hearted, funny, uplifting - that sort of thing and they pay quite well for the use of your lines! Reader's Digest is a great example of a magazine that actively uses fillers and pays quite well for them.
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"The Poet's Survival
Guide" includes info on how to print and publish your own chapbook and gives you
ideas to turn your poems into cash. Plus there are plenty of resources and links
to get you started. This Ebook is a must for beginning poets!
Written by award
winning poet, L.B. Sedlacek.
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