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How to Crowdfund Your Writing With Patreon
Patreon offers creatives a more sustainable model for crowdfunding—ongoing micro-payments from interested benefactors.
Creativity Exercises: 3 Ways to Awaken Your Mind to Poetic Thinking
Guggenheim Fellow and poet Jane Hirshfield explains, “Poetry’s work is the clarification and magnification of being.” Here are some creativity exercises to help awaken your mind to poetic thinking, and to clarify and magnify your poetry writing.
Why Do Authors Cross Out Their Name When Signing Book?
Some authors do it; others don't. But for those who do, why do authors cross out their name when signing books? We share author perspectives below.
I Need an Agent for My Poetry
How do I get a literary agent to represent my poetry? That's the question posed by a poet with a collection of poems needing feedback on how to finish it.
Assembling and Submitting a Poetry Collection
Poet's Market editor Robert Lee Brewer shares his process of successfully assembling and submitting his poetry collection Solving the World's Problems to Press 53.
Simile vs. Metaphor: Smackdown!
Senior WD editor Robert Lee Brewer explains the key differences between the simile and the metaphor.