Poetry FAQs

Learn how to get your poetry published, whether you're trying to get a poem or an entire book of poems published.

Writer and editor Matthew Daddona explains how to easily create tension in your poems and how that adds weight to your message.

Here is a list of the inaugural poets for United States Presidential Inauguration Days from Robert Frost to Amanda Gorman. This post also touches on who an inaugural poet is and which presidents have had them at their inaugurations.

Patricia Colleen Murphy offers insights to poets on how to improve their own writing and what she looks for in reading poetry for publication.

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.

For writers of short form literature, submitting your work can mean a variety of positive things. Here are important questions (and answers) you need to know about the process.