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Summary: Exellence in Reference
Review: As a published writer, Poet's Market is a tremendous source of information -- from sample cover and query letters to interviews with editors, this book is essential for all poets and writers. I have found that it is important to purchase each new edition in order to remain current and that's what this book does. It lists every type of magazine that publishes poetry, chapbook and full-length book contests and publisher information, etc. It's the best writing reference book out there.
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Summary: Exellence in Reference
Review: As a published writer, Poet's Market is a tremendous source of information -- from sample cover and query letters to interviews with editors, this book is essential for all poets and writers. I have found that it is important to purchase each new edition in order to remain current and that's what this book does. It lists every type of magazine that publishes poetry, chapbook and full-length book contests and publisher information, etc. It's the best writing reference book out there.
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Summary: Necessary for Poets
Review: Have you bought it yet?If you are intending to be a published poet, and, like me, no one has heard of you, you need "2002 Poet's Market: 1,800 Places to Publish Your Poetry." Useful are the icons indicating if they pay, or won awards, etc. As a poet often writing with religious overtones, I need to know which publications, secular and religious, are open to such poetry. Some do not want to see any sort of religious poetry, and others are open, but with limits, and others welcome it. This book helps me avoid wasting my time, their time, and postage. By using this book, everyone is happy. I have used this guide successfully to be published. It is thorough, packed with info. You'll find the icons essential, as you determine which publishers pay, which are new additions to the guide, which are open to newer writers, etc. Also, if you are looking to get into the religious market, Poet's Market is just a start. It is decent, but only covers the largest publishers. You are should also buy Sally Stuart's "Christian Writer's Market Guide," a very similarly structured book, the definitive guide for Christian writers. I fully recommend this book. Anthony Trendl
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Summary: Editors need to edit addresses
Review: I bought the 2002 edition a while back, and using that as a reference, made 16 submissions this past November of which, 4 were bounced back. One marked "addressee unknown", two marked, "forwarding order expired" and fortunately, the last was returned by the post office with a new address to mail to. With a bad address rate of 25%, I figured I better update and buy the 2003 edition,did so and checked the 4 listings -- lo and behold, they were exactly the same. A friend told me about the Small Press Directory which costs less and so far, no bounced submissions
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Summary: Bought for a friend
Review: I bought this as a gift for a friend who is a poet. She loves it and has been using it to get her work out to the poem lovers.
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Summary: She Killed Me
Review: If I arrive or not, that's not important
Anymore
I went in between all thy passion
I went there waiting for your eyes
They sow me, anyway
They never to me arrived
Thou choose the faces and
Thou brake thy other skins
That inside thy beauty
Thy don't want to feel She killed myself
She killed thy life that I had
Very deep in my skin.
She didn't choose my face
She killed me with her indifference
Thy city of lights, that thus call
Home
That you love for be proud
She killed my lust
And with it my strangers died too. Is for I lost already
These power that I use to carry
Like a cross
Is maybe for I am not enough
For a place that live in lights,
She knew that I come from the darkness
Therefore
In thy city of lights I could never
Go inside. " I am bleeding
she is drinking it
[all]
but without her company
the dead would be worst"
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Summary: As essential as a word processor
Review: If you write poetry and want to publish it you need this book. It's that simple. Magazines, editors, addresses listed in alphabetical order and again in sub groups, i.e. religous, nature, humor and so forth. The web listings - the word is really getting out-give addresses which frequently present sample works and special topics/guidelines. How useful is the book? Well I've placed ten poems this year using addresses found in it, half of this year's placements. I think it probably saved me the purchase cost in stamps and manuscripts alone.
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Summary: get it!
Review: If you're aiming at being a published poet, you must follow this book to the last word. I don't care how good your poem is, if it's in a bad manuscript format, it doesn't get read. The only thing wrong with Poet's Market 2005 isn't even their fault - it's that you have to keep buying the new edition every year, to figure out which of the many small presses are still operating that year. A hardcover version would be nice, too.
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Summary: The Poet's Bible
Review: This book is a MUST READ for poets interested in publishing their work. The interviews with seasoned poets, editors and publishers are very insightful, and the publication listings provide useful information for poets who want to know if their works would be a good match for a particular journal. I have had success getting published in several of the markets I found in this book. The one down side to Poet's Market is the same down side to any directory or reference book -- as soon as it goes to print, it's out of date. With the constant flux of journals launching and closing their mailboxes, it's impossible for any edition of the Poet's Market to be 100% perfect. However, it's the best guide out there, and definitely needs to be in the library of every poet.
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Summary: would-be-published poets need this
Review: This is the most essential thing a poet needs to get poems & books published -- besides publishable work... with a huge list of publishers, descriptions of what each wants, how to submit to each, & more, this is invaluable it also has some useful information such as how to do your covber letter & other things
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