Fink English 271

DEVELOPING AND SUBMITTING YOUR FIRST BOOK OF POETRY FOR PUBLICATION Don’t think about submitting a book for publication until you have at least 8 poems in 5 or 6 journals, magazines, or ezines. It would be great to publish in LaGuardia’s  The Lit , but a poem in that publication is tied to a college, so it doesn’t quite count as a professional publication. If you look at the publication credits on the acknowledgments page of most books of poetry that list previously published poems, there are rarely fewer than 8 poems listed, and some books only include the names of publications (not the poems), and, in the case of poets who had not published a book before, there are rarely fewer than 4 publications listed and often many more. Assembling a first book of poetry is usually not dumping poems into a Word file/PDF as though putting ingredients in a stew. Often, the poets rigorously select poems that have no discernible weaknesses, even if it means creating a relatively short book o...

THE SELF REFERENTIAL POEM (METAPOEM) The following lists contain various possibilities; not every metapoem in each mode performs all, most, or even many of these particular explorations     One kind of self-referential poem or metapoem explores how poetry:  ·        functions as communication  ·        fails to function as communication ·        functions as sound (i.e. music), ·        reflects the poet’s conscious intentions ·        reflects the poet’s unconscious intentions ·        goes beyond or against the poet’s intentions ·        contains properties or attributes ·        does not contain particular properties or attributes ·        influences the triangular r...