What are poetry publishers looking for?
To get published by a publishing house is pretty difficult. They've got to be convinced that your book will sell probably more than a thousand copies. So, that's a pretty hard thing to do. So, ideally, you'll have been quite successful with individual poems that have got into anthologies. They've got into newspapers. They've got into small magazines. You've got a pile of maybe fifty or sixty. The publishers need to say "there's something here". I think this is going to convince people.