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Poets who are ready to take this step themselves need only a persuasively dazzling poem, the price of a stamp, and a plan.  \nPoetry magazines get filed on a constantly shifting shelf. For every august journal with a decades-long unbroken publishing history, there’s a pop-up broadside that rolls off the photocopiers only as long as the editors’ cash and energy allows. Both styles of magazine, and all the papers, fanzines, PDFsand webpages in between, are interconnected parts of poetry’s ecology.  \nBefore you start to place your poems among them, give some thought to the sort of publication you want to appear in and why.  \nDo you want to be in a magazine with your friends as an adjunct to your poetic social life, or isthere a gold standard of magazine acceptance that you’ve challenged yourself to achieve?  \nWhat do you want to happen to your poems after they have been published? Perhaps you’ve got your eye on future pamphlet or book publication - how might those editors look at your magazine publication record?  \nDo you want all your best poems out in the world through the magazine route, or do you want to hold some back?  \nWhat do you think about having a large number of your poems online, where notions of copyright can sometimes get a bit hazy?  \nSuitably informed, you can draw up a hit list of the magazines you’d like to approach. Start by reading the acknowledgements pages of books by poets you admire to see which magazines have published their work. Your published friends, creative writing workshop members and tutors can also be tapped for advice.  \nIf you can get to London, Morpeth or Edinburgh, visit  \n􀁸 the Poetry Library in the Royal Festival Hall, [http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/](http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/)  \n􀁸 the Northern Poetry Library [http://www.northumberland.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=1669](http://www.northumberland.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=1669)  \n􀁸 the Scottish Poetry Library [http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/](http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/)  \nto browse their print magazine collections; or see if you can find one of the vanishing small number of bookshops which stock poetry magazines.  \nThe Poetry Library’s website has a list of both print and online mags, and its project to digitise print magazines ([http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/](http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/)) allows online visitors a closer look between the covers of certain publications.  \nLook to get a sense of each magazine’s style and whether or not your work would be a good fit for it. Mailing your carefully wrought sequence of formal nature poems to a journal that publishes poems with a fierce experimental agenda, or vice versa, only benefits the Post Office. Each magazine will have its own idiosyncratic submission guidelines which you need to stick to, but in general …  \nMore ideas to inspire [your writing at](your writing at www.poetryschool.com)[ www.poetryschool.com](your writing at www.poetryschool.com) – download, online and face-to-face  \nAll material is © The Poetry School and the Author. Please do not reproduce, distribute or transmit this material without permission from The Poetry School.  \nThe Poetry School, 81 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6DX, UK Tel: +44 (0)207 582 1679  \nTEACHING  \nTHE ART OF POETRY  \n􀁸 Keep track of what you’ve sent, where and when. A bit of busy work with schedulesand spreadsheets helps keep the submission process rolling, and can reduce the sting a bit when the inevitable rejections arrive. A neat cross in that particular poem’s column, draw a line, move onto the next submission.  \n􀁸 Include up to 6 poems in any one submission, don’t put more than one poem on each page, and put your name and contact details on each sheet of the document. Poe","cbCaifxe6SB3OmAh","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifxe6SB3OmAh","pdf",40102,"English","# Submitting to Poetry Magazines: Some Top Tips\n## Choosing the right magazines\n## Planning outcomes after publication\n## Building a target magazine list\n## Reviewing magazine style and guidelines\n## Preparing submissions\n## Tracking, rejection, and acceptance","[{\"question\":\"How should a poet choose which poetry magazines to submit to?\",\"answer\":\"Consider the type of publication you want to appear in and what you want to happen after publication. 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