How hard is it to become a published poet?

How hard is it to become a published poet?

In one way it's tremendously easy to become a published poet. All you've got to do is type something on your computer, print it out two times and keep one copy and hand the other one to someone else, and then you have published that poem. You can expand that by putting twenty poems together and making it into a little book, and handing it around to relatives and friends so you then become more of a published poet. You can send your poems off to magazines, to newspapers, locally or nationally, and if you get one of those published that's quite hard. I'd say it's very hard. I don't think I've ever succeeded and I have tried often enough. Getting a book of poems published is usually very hard, getting it published by somebody else other than yourself. A great place to start is publishing poems yourself, because you know that you can turn them out and get them around to friends and relations and you'll hear what they think of it and what they make of it. That's a great teacher.