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All Rights Reserved. Do not duplicate or distribute without explicit permission of the author.  \nQuestions, comments, complaints, corrections, critiques?  \nEmail [support@authorspublish.com](support@authorspublish.com)  \nSpecial thanks to S. Kalekar, Ella Peary, Joy Xiang, Jacob Jans, and  \nCaitlin Thomson.  \nTable of Contents  \nTable of Contents .................................................................................. 4  \nIntroduction ......................................................................................... 5  \nPublishing Poems ................................................................................. 9  \nPublishing Chapbooks ......................................................................... 33  \nPublishing Books ................................................................................ 47  \n106 Manuscript Publishers that Do Not Charge Reading Fees .............. 48  \nConclusion .......................................................................................... 73  \nGlossary of Terms ............................................................................... 74  \nAbout the Author................................................................................ 78  \nIntroduction  \nI often receive emails from authors who are looking to publish a book of poems. When I ask them where their poems have previously been published, they are confused. Most have never published individual poems. Why would they do that, they ask, when they have a whole book?  \nPublishing collections of poetry is a very tricky market. There is not much money in it for most poets or publishers. This is changing with the rise of“Instagram poets,” but for the majority of poets, poetry publishing remains more or less the same: competitive and influenced by fees and academia.  \nOften, when a book of poems is published, between ten and fifty percent of the poems it contains have been previously published elsewhere. Sometimes this is just in a variety of literary journals, but often it is also ina chapbook (more on that later) .  \nMost poets don’t leap into publishing a book. Instead, they take small steps: first by publishing individual poems, then often a chapbook, and finally a book. The average time it takes to publish a book of poetry is ten years.  \nThis might seem like a long, difficult process, but it doesn’t have to be. All of the steps, from publishing poems to publishing chapbooks, can be enjoyable and rewarding in and of themselves.  \nMost novelists never get reader feedback, outside of friends, until they publish their novel as a whole, or the advanced reader copy is released. For poets who actively publish in literary journals, that is not the case.  \nOften, when a poem of mine gets published in a literary journal, I get feedback from the editor of the literary journal, from readers of the literary journal who are complete strangers to me, and also from my friends and family.  \nSometimes these individual poems are nominated for awards. I have been nominated for eight awards of various levels of prestige, and I have won one. Publishing individual poems in journals has helped me secure jobs and has made me eligible for fellowships. They have led to numerous public readings.  \nChapbooks, short paperback books that are usually no more than thirty pages in length and have a limited press run, are usually the next step in the publishing journey for poets. Some poets self-publish chapbooks, but there are also a number of reputable, established chapbook presses.  \nSelf-publishing an entire book of poems is generally considered to be bad form, but self-publishing a chapbook does not have the same negative connotations associated with it.  \nThat said, I’m not ruling out self-publishing a book, particularly if you area spoken-word poet. 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