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Editor’s Note: Throughout the month of April, Reading Local and Portland poet Sage Cohen will celebrate National Poetry Month by featuring a new tip each day.
Set your sights; name your targets
Identify at least six publications to which you will submit your poems: two print, two online and two contests (if you can afford them). Not sure where to start? Try looking at the “Acknowledgements” page of a contemporary poet’s book whose writing feels similar to your own. Write down seven literary journals where the poems in this book first appeared. Then go to a bookstore or library or visit the web sites to read those journals; choose the ones that feel like a fit for your writing.
Sage Cohen is the author of WRITING THE LIFE POETIC: An Invitation to Read and Write Poetry (Writers Digest Books, 2009), THE PRODUCTIVE WRITER: Tips & Tools for Writing More, Stressing Less and Creating success (Writer’s Digest Books, forthcoming in 2010) and the poetry collection Like the Heart, the World. Learn more at www.writingthelifepoetic.typepad.com.
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