You say that you want to be a poet, huh?
You can be involved in poetry throughout your whole life. Poetry can fuel and mix with your secular life. It's very hard, though, for your career to be all poetry. People who are active poets let poetry complement their secular life, or incorporate it. It is all about recognition and popularity, whether you are getting paid or not. Recognition comes from winning competitions and having well-received work (books, submissions, videos, performances, etc). Don't just focus on poetry, though. You can be involved in relevant things such as essays, articles, short stories, and novels. The money may come later, or in some indirect way. Just build a reputation. You need an audience. People who are active poets today are usually also teachers (high school, collegiate, workshops, conferences, prisons), volunteers, workers for nonprofit organizations, musicians/vocalists, novelists, playwrights, authors, activists, psychologists, journalists, entrepreneurs, editors, speakers, bloggers, managers/directors/coordinators, students, and/or actors. Many people who are very active, good and accomplished poets are people with college degrees. If you are interested in college think about majoring and being involved in anything that has to do with writing/reading (English, law, comparative literature, screenwriting, linguistics, etc.), speaking (rhetoric, law, etc.), social studies (psychology, urban studies, history, sociology, law etc.), or the [performing] arts (theater, acting, music, etc). Of course you can do whatever you want as long as you stay active in things, and connected with people, that have to do with poetry. There are poets who are engineers, technicians, and scientists, but the overall goal is to do what you love full-time. Since people look for accomplishments you want money any way you can get it as a poet. Since school is important in this field, then you want to get and apply for all the endowments, residencies, fellowships, scholarships, endorsements, laureateships and grants you can get. When you are a poet you're selling yourself usually, not just your work. You have to find creative ways to get material things and money. You may be a popular poet and then that audience also becomes your music audience, or vice-verse. This applies to someone who writes short stories and poetry; or is an actor and a poet. Your fields pour into each other. You may end up coaching poetry slam teams, being a singer, and teach workshops. You may become a performer (which many people label a spoken word artist) and a literary editor. When you get old you may become a high school teacher or stay a literary editor. You may become a novelist/author and a professor at a college. You may just become a novelist and/or author. I don't believe in being totally dedicated to poetry. You should be familiar with, interested in, good at, or educated in something else such as novels, journalism, business management, engineering, marketing, real estate, dancing, filmography, singing, plumbing, carpentry, teaching, acting, screenwriting, composing music, computer programming, songwriting, commercial driving, counseling, or even playing an instrument. Now, remember, as a poet you are selling yourself. You have to invest in yourself. That means trying to get as much recognition and attention as possible. It means SAVING MONEY. If you're not saving it then you should invest it in your career. Be balanced with collaborations and your own things. Never forget about not only your poetry, but poetry itself.
Have fun!
Have fun!
The Resource
This is a resource about poetry based, oriented, and related competitions, scholarships, fellowships, retreats, conferences, teams, collectives, workshops, internships, studies, anthologies, residencies, and jobs/careers. Imagine yourself taking part in theses programs/organizations as an employee, volunteer, or competitor. This is to show everyone, whether in school or not, the poetic opportunities they have.
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Good things for high school students and teenagers to do, particularly in the Philadelphia area:
Poetry centers:
Philly Youth Poetry Movement (PYPM) (Poetry slam, workshops, and high school slam league)
The Excelano Project
Kenyon's Young Writers Workshop
Extracurricular activities and related-types of competitions:
Philadelphia Young Playwrights
Philly Plays Scrabble
Philadelphia Scholastic Debate League
ASAP'S Theatre Works
Philadelphia Theatre Company
World Organization of the Scout Movement
Performance competitions:
Brave New Voices
Poetry Out Loud
CUPSI
National writing contests and challenges:
Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
NCTE National Achievement Awards in Writing
National Society of Arts and Letters: Awards of Excellence
NaNoWriMo
National privileges:
Youth Poet Laureate
Nation Student Poets Program (government and scholastic)
Poetry competitions and opportunities:
Yale Series of Younger Poets awards
National High School Poetry Contest (The Live Poets Society of New Jersey)
Gannon University High School Poetry Contest
The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
Creative Communication's student poetry writing contest
Youth Voices Against Violence: A Call For Audio Projects
Exquisite Writing Contest
The Claremont Review Annual Writing Contest
The Emerson Prize
NCTE awards
Quil and Scroll Writing and Photo Contest
The Elizabeth Bishop Prizes
Manningham Student Poetry Awards
PTA Reflections Program
River of Words Poetry and Art Contest
TELLUS Magazine Poetry competition
Torrance Legacy Creative Writing Awards
Davidson Fellows Scholarships
ThinkQuest
The National YoungArts Foundation
Performance art, journalism, essay, and other competitions and opportunities:
Philadelphia Young Playwrights' Playwriting Festival (submission)
Young Voices Monologue Festival (Philadelphia Young Playwrights and Interact Theatre Company)
Young Playwrights Inc. National Playwriting Competition
Donna Reed Foundation Performing Arts Scholarships
A Cappella awards
The National High School Musical Theater Awards
This I Believe
Holocaust Remembrance Project
National Peace Essay Contest
Annual Signet Classics Student Scholarship Essay Contest
Essay Contest on Biographies of Contemporary Women in Mathematics
NFPW High School Communications Contest
National Scholastic Press Association contests
Student Publishing Contest and Awards
Columbia Scholastic Press Association awards
Davidson Fellows Scholarships
Ayn Rand Institute Essay Contests
Being an American Essay Contest
DuPont Challenge Science Essay Contest
Goi Peace Foundation International Essay Contest for Young People
Letters About Literature competition
The Nation Student Writing Contest
Profile in Courage Essay Contest
Quill and Scroll Yearbook Excellence Contests
International Student Media Festival
The National YoungArts Foundation
ThinkQuest
NCTE awards
Davidson Fellows Scholarships
Literary magazines, journals, and anthologies:
The Concord Review
Apiary Corp. (local)
Not Dalton's Kids
The Claremont Review
Creative Kids
Merlyn's Pen
Skipping Stones
Teen Ink
Philadelphia Stories (Junior)
Painted Bride Quarterly (local)
The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
TINGE Magazine
Nailpolish Stories
American Poetry Review
The Best Teen Writing (Scholastic)
YARN (Young Adult Review Network)
Sucker
Scape
One Teen Story
AIM (America's Intercultural Magazine)
Cicada
Faces
(Refer to "Literary magazines and journals:" under "For All Poets" below.)
Make sure you make or join a poetry group, but do not stop there; make sure you're active in it. There are other things you can do, though. Join a local band, make and produce your own play, take vocal/music/instrument lessons, publish a book, make songs, participate in school plays, join your school's art club, become a counselor, become a mentor, become a volunteer, join a music-related competition, submit pieces to a legitimate/professional literary magazine/journal, make YouTube videos, become a blogger, join a school newspaper, make a web-series, or join a school literary magazine/journal/blog. If you don't have one, or any of these things, at your school or in your community-- make or start your own. You have the power. If you can't do certain things you are interested in inside of school, try doing them outside of school. Do things that show that you are dedicated to poetry, literature, art, and/or whatever your [life] goals are. Just make sure you get good grades and standardized test scores (SAT). Remember, also, that junior year is the most important one because senior year you will mostly like be busy and thinking very much about the future. Colleges and universities also mainly look at your junior year. Train hard!
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Slam opportunities
Brave New Voices (High school.)
Poetry Out Loud
Philly Youth Poetry Movement (PYPM) [Local] {Part of BNV.}
CUPSI (Collegiate.)
Individual World Poetry Slam (post-high school)
Women of the World Poetry Slam (Post-high school.)
Nuyorican Poetry Slam (Post-high school.)
Speak Green Poetry Slam (Post-high school.)
National Poetry Slam (post-high school)
The Pigeon Presents: The Philadelphia Poetry Slam (Local.) [Part of NPS.]
Performance opportunities
Artists management agencies, labels, and collectives that specialize in performance poetry:
Strivers Row
Team Skitzin
Theatrical, cinematic, shows, and interdisciplinary:
Motionpoems
Billy Collins' Action Poetry
Snap Judgment
Poetry Observed
Stakeholders Choice
Nuyorican Theater Program
Rattapallax
Verses & Flow
TEDx
The Poetry Revival
Clubs, community nonprofits, and event organizers:
louderARTS
Bowery Poetry Club
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
The Haiti Duende Project
Philly Youth Poetry Movement
Collective Purpose
Transit Arts
ArtSafe/Art for A Child Safe America Foundation
For All Poets
Writing competitions:
Independent Publisher Book Award
Kundiman Poetry Prize
Scholastic Art and Writing Award
National Book Awards
Pulitzer Prize(s)
Prairie Schooner Book Prize
Philip Levine Prize
The John Ciardi Prize
The Faulkner-Wisdom Poetry Prize
"Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Prize
Bellday Poetry Prize
Eric Hoffer Award
The Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry
Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes
National Book Awards
Anisfield-Wold Book Awards
Emily Dickinson Award
Neglected Masters Award
Columbia Poetry Contest
NCTE National Achievement Award in Creative Writing
National Society of Arts and Letters: Awards of Excellence
Yale Series of Younger Poets awards
Rattle Poetry Prize
The Pushcart Prize(s)
The Cora Craig Author Award for Young Women
National High School Poetry Contest (The Live Poets Society of New Jersey)
Gannon University High School Poetry Contest
The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
Poetry Society of America's awards
National Federation of State Poetry Societies' contests
Young American Digest Contest
NaNoWriMo
Creative Communication's student poetry writing contest
PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry
Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize
Whiting Writers' Award
National titles/positions:
U.S. Poet Laureate
Youth Poet Laureate
National Student Poets Program
Publishers and presses:
Uphook Press
Write Bloody Publishing
House of Parlance Media Inc.
The Wordsmith Press
Penmanship Books
great weather for MEDIA
Bowery Books
Coffee House Press
Bateau Press
Black Lawrence Press
McSweeney's
Knopf Doubleday
The Domino Project
Wave Books
Mud Luscious Press
Penguin Press
Edge Books
Graywolf press
Black Ocean
Birds, LLC
(Refer to the "Novels and Collections" page on this website.)
Literary magazines and journals:
New York Quarterly
Rattle
FRiGG
kill author (Online.)
PANK
New England Review
Michigan Quarterly Review
Callaloo
Indiana Review
Blackbird
Verse Daily
Atlanta Review
Founding Review
Damselfly Press
decomP
Literary Bohemian
Pear Noir!
Danse Macabre
Muzzle
The November 3rd Club
GirlChild Press
Spindle
The Millions
Word Riot
The Rattling Wall
Suss
Union Station Magazine
CHAOS Magazine
Apiary Corp. (Local.)
Not Dalton's Kids (Online.)
Air Poetry (Online.)
The Writer's Almanac (Online.)
Ninth Letter
Third Coast
AGNI
The American Scholar
jubilat
The Kenyon Review
Seneca Review
Boston Review
American Poetry Review
Bateau Press
Devil's Lake
Linebreak (Online)
Prairie Schooner
Memorious
Ink Node
Tin House
Beloit Poetry Journal
Sonora Review
A cappella Zoo
OCTOPUS
cream city review
(Refer to the "Periodicals" [literary magazines and journals] page on this website.)
Consultant group:
Writer's Relief
Grants, fellowships, and scholarships:
Ruth Lilly Fellowships
National Student Poets Program
National Endowment for the Arts
The Star-Ledger Scholarship
Children's Poet Laureate
Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship
Creative Capital Artistic Grants
Kenyon Review Fellowships
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Writing Fellowships
Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowships
Wallace Stegner Fellowships
The Thea Foundation Poetry Slam Scholarship
The louderARTS Fellowship
Stradler Fellowships
The Pushcart Prize (Fellowships)
Jones Lectureship
The Jay C. and Ruth Halls Fellowship
The Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellowship
Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship
The Rhodes Scholarships
The Chancellor's Graduate Fellowship
First Wave Urban Arts Scholarship
National Performance Network
The Jerome Foundation
The Zellerbach Family Foundation
The Len and Loulse Riggio Honors Program: Writing & Democracy/The Riggio Writing Fellows Program
Pew Fellowships in the Arts
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
Marshall Scholarship
The Rockefeller MAP Fund
New England Foundation for the Arts
Conferences, retreats, workshops, residencies:
Bread Loafs Writers Conference
Cave Canem
The Spoken Word Almanac
Blue Mountain Center
Verses & Flow
Philadelphia Alumni Writers House
Kelley Writers House
West Chester University Poetry Conference
The louderARTS Project Monday Workshops
The Philly Youth Poetry Movement
Study Abroad on the Bowery
Bowery WordShop
Poets House
Vermont Studio Center
Community of Writers at Squaw Valley
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Ragdale
Iowa Writers' Workshop
Santa Fe Art Institute
Cache Creek Nature Preserve's Writer-In-Residence
United States/Japan Creative Artists Residency
Madeleine P. Plonsker Residency
National Performance Network
New York Live Arts/Dance Theater Workshop
The Jerome Foundation
Flying Object
Oregon Literary Arts Writers-In-The-Schools
Kenyon's Young Writers Workshop
Education:
Project V.O.I.C.E.
Philly Youth Poetry Movement (PYPM) [High school.]
Space in Prisons for the Arts and Creative Expression (SPACE)
Mighty Writers (High school.)
Alzheimer's Poetry Project
Urban Word NYC
R.E.A.C.H. Communications, Inc.
Flying Object
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Ideas to market yourself and your poetry:
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Look up and research these people. You will see the various programs and organizations they were, or still are, a part of. These are places you can apply to or hopefully work for. That includes art, and writing, centers and venues.
George Watsky
Maya Angelou
Joshua Bennett
Nikki Giovanni
Miles Hodges
Robert Pinsky
Carvens Lissaint
Robert Peters
Alysia Harris
Patricia Smith
Zora Howard
Philip Levine
Jasmine Mans
Billy Collins
Sam Cook
Rita Dove
Jared Singer
Ted Kooser
Natasha Trethewey
M.S. Merwin
George Corbin
Lucille Clifton
Jeanann Verlee
Charles Bukowski
Jamaal May
Chris Tusa
Sarah Kay
Marilyn L. Taylor
Thomas Fucaloro
Wanda Phipps
Corrina Bain
Naomi Shihab Nye
Joanna Hoffman
Nimah I. Nawwab
Jon Sands
Cornelius Eady
Phil Kaye
Deborah Ager
Catalina Ferro
Alice Walker
Ms. Wise (Alyesha Wise)
Zach Buscher
Denice Frohman
Brittany Cavallaro
Perry DiVirgilio
Rebecca Hazelton
Aysha El-Shamayleh
Nancy Reddy
Taylor Mali
Rae Gouirand
Noel Scales
Ansel Elkins
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Sara Michas-Martin
Seff Al-Friqi
Elizabeth Willis
Shannon Matesky
C. Dale Young
Kirya Trayber
Sarah Crossland
Chinaka Hodge
Paul Watsky
Mayda Del Valle
Susan Chast
Jamaica Osorio
Lisa Chun
Rafael Casal
Emily Pettit
Bassey Ikpi
Mary Oliver
Brook Yung
CAConrad
Beau Sia
Mark Strand
Shane Koyczan
Natasha Trethewey
Glynn Washington
Eileen Myles
Ben Alisuag
Rebecca Lindenberg
Kesed Ragin
Eduardo C. Corral
Andrea Gibson
Zachary Schomburg
Derrick Brown
D.A. Powell
Rudy Francisco
Elizabeth Alexander
Omar Musa
David Baker
John G. Rives
Kimiko Hahn
Alix Olson
Terrance Hayes
Suheir Hammad
Staceyann Chin
Michelle Tea
Apollo Poetry (Sevan Aydinian)
Saul Williams
Jamila Woods
Marty McConnell
Shira Erlichman
Eboni Hogan
Carol Rothstein
Aja Monet
Adam Faulkner
Ken Arkind
Lauren Zuniga
Mahogany L. Browne
Michael Cirelli
Sean Patrick Conlon
Geoff Kagan Trenchard
Shappy Seasholtz
Vanessa Hidary
Tonya Simone Ingram
Emily Kagan Trenchard
Barbara Fant
Regie Cabico
Anis Mojgani
Buddy Wakefield
Robbie Q. Telfer
Carlos Andres Gomez
Franny Choi
Lemon Andersen
Jamie DeWolf
Marc Bamuthi Joseph
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Good things for high school students and teenagers to do, particularly in the Philadelphia area:
Poetry centers:
Philly Youth Poetry Movement (PYPM) (Poetry slam, workshops, and high school slam league)
The Excelano Project
Kenyon's Young Writers Workshop
Extracurricular activities and related-types of competitions:
Philadelphia Young Playwrights
Philly Plays Scrabble
Philadelphia Scholastic Debate League
ASAP'S Theatre Works
Philadelphia Theatre Company
World Organization of the Scout Movement
Performance competitions:
Brave New Voices
Poetry Out Loud
CUPSI
National writing contests and challenges:
Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
NCTE National Achievement Awards in Writing
National Society of Arts and Letters: Awards of Excellence
NaNoWriMo
National privileges:
Youth Poet Laureate
Nation Student Poets Program (government and scholastic)
Poetry competitions and opportunities:
Yale Series of Younger Poets awards
National High School Poetry Contest (The Live Poets Society of New Jersey)
Gannon University High School Poetry Contest
The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
Creative Communication's student poetry writing contest
Youth Voices Against Violence: A Call For Audio Projects
Exquisite Writing Contest
The Claremont Review Annual Writing Contest
The Emerson Prize
NCTE awards
Quil and Scroll Writing and Photo Contest
The Elizabeth Bishop Prizes
Manningham Student Poetry Awards
PTA Reflections Program
River of Words Poetry and Art Contest
TELLUS Magazine Poetry competition
Torrance Legacy Creative Writing Awards
Davidson Fellows Scholarships
ThinkQuest
The National YoungArts Foundation
Performance art, journalism, essay, and other competitions and opportunities:
Philadelphia Young Playwrights' Playwriting Festival (submission)
Young Voices Monologue Festival (Philadelphia Young Playwrights and Interact Theatre Company)
Young Playwrights Inc. National Playwriting Competition
Donna Reed Foundation Performing Arts Scholarships
A Cappella awards
The National High School Musical Theater Awards
This I Believe
Holocaust Remembrance Project
National Peace Essay Contest
Annual Signet Classics Student Scholarship Essay Contest
Essay Contest on Biographies of Contemporary Women in Mathematics
NFPW High School Communications Contest
National Scholastic Press Association contests
Student Publishing Contest and Awards
Columbia Scholastic Press Association awards
Davidson Fellows Scholarships
Ayn Rand Institute Essay Contests
Being an American Essay Contest
DuPont Challenge Science Essay Contest
Goi Peace Foundation International Essay Contest for Young People
Letters About Literature competition
The Nation Student Writing Contest
Profile in Courage Essay Contest
Quill and Scroll Yearbook Excellence Contests
International Student Media Festival
The National YoungArts Foundation
ThinkQuest
NCTE awards
Davidson Fellows Scholarships
Literary magazines, journals, and anthologies:
The Concord Review
Apiary Corp. (local)
Not Dalton's Kids
The Claremont Review
Creative Kids
Merlyn's Pen
Skipping Stones
Teen Ink
Philadelphia Stories (Junior)
Painted Bride Quarterly (local)
The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
TINGE Magazine
Nailpolish Stories
American Poetry Review
The Best Teen Writing (Scholastic)
YARN (Young Adult Review Network)
Sucker
Scape
One Teen Story
AIM (America's Intercultural Magazine)
Cicada
Faces
(Refer to "Literary magazines and journals:" under "For All Poets" below.)
Make sure you make or join a poetry group, but do not stop there; make sure you're active in it. There are other things you can do, though. Join a local band, make and produce your own play, take vocal/music/instrument lessons, publish a book, make songs, participate in school plays, join your school's art club, become a counselor, become a mentor, become a volunteer, join a music-related competition, submit pieces to a legitimate/professional literary magazine/journal, make YouTube videos, become a blogger, join a school newspaper, make a web-series, or join a school literary magazine/journal/blog. If you don't have one, or any of these things, at your school or in your community-- make or start your own. You have the power. If you can't do certain things you are interested in inside of school, try doing them outside of school. Do things that show that you are dedicated to poetry, literature, art, and/or whatever your [life] goals are. Just make sure you get good grades and standardized test scores (SAT). Remember, also, that junior year is the most important one because senior year you will mostly like be busy and thinking very much about the future. Colleges and universities also mainly look at your junior year. Train hard!
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Slam opportunities
Brave New Voices (High school.)
Poetry Out Loud
Philly Youth Poetry Movement (PYPM) [Local] {Part of BNV.}
CUPSI (Collegiate.)
Individual World Poetry Slam (post-high school)
Women of the World Poetry Slam (Post-high school.)
Nuyorican Poetry Slam (Post-high school.)
Speak Green Poetry Slam (Post-high school.)
National Poetry Slam (post-high school)
The Pigeon Presents: The Philadelphia Poetry Slam (Local.) [Part of NPS.]
Performance opportunities
Artists management agencies, labels, and collectives that specialize in performance poetry:
Strivers Row
Team Skitzin
Theatrical, cinematic, shows, and interdisciplinary:
Motionpoems
Billy Collins' Action Poetry
Snap Judgment
Poetry Observed
Stakeholders Choice
Nuyorican Theater Program
Rattapallax
Verses & Flow
TEDx
The Poetry Revival
Clubs, community nonprofits, and event organizers:
louderARTS
Bowery Poetry Club
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
The Haiti Duende Project
Philly Youth Poetry Movement
Collective Purpose
Transit Arts
ArtSafe/Art for A Child Safe America Foundation
For All Poets
Writing competitions:
Independent Publisher Book Award
Kundiman Poetry Prize
Scholastic Art and Writing Award
National Book Awards
Pulitzer Prize(s)
Prairie Schooner Book Prize
Philip Levine Prize
The John Ciardi Prize
The Faulkner-Wisdom Poetry Prize
"Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Prize
Bellday Poetry Prize
Eric Hoffer Award
The Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry
Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes
National Book Awards
Anisfield-Wold Book Awards
Emily Dickinson Award
Neglected Masters Award
Columbia Poetry Contest
NCTE National Achievement Award in Creative Writing
National Society of Arts and Letters: Awards of Excellence
Yale Series of Younger Poets awards
Rattle Poetry Prize
The Pushcart Prize(s)
The Cora Craig Author Award for Young Women
National High School Poetry Contest (The Live Poets Society of New Jersey)
Gannon University High School Poetry Contest
The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers
Poetry Society of America's awards
National Federation of State Poetry Societies' contests
Young American Digest Contest
NaNoWriMo
Creative Communication's student poetry writing contest
PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry
Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize
Whiting Writers' Award
National titles/positions:
U.S. Poet Laureate
Youth Poet Laureate
National Student Poets Program
Publishers and presses:
Uphook Press
Write Bloody Publishing
House of Parlance Media Inc.
The Wordsmith Press
Penmanship Books
great weather for MEDIA
Bowery Books
Coffee House Press
Bateau Press
Black Lawrence Press
McSweeney's
Knopf Doubleday
The Domino Project
Wave Books
Mud Luscious Press
Penguin Press
Edge Books
Graywolf press
Black Ocean
Birds, LLC
(Refer to the "Novels and Collections" page on this website.)
Literary magazines and journals:
New York Quarterly
Rattle
FRiGG
kill author (Online.)
PANK
New England Review
Michigan Quarterly Review
Callaloo
Indiana Review
Blackbird
Verse Daily
Atlanta Review
Founding Review
Damselfly Press
decomP
Literary Bohemian
Pear Noir!
Danse Macabre
Muzzle
The November 3rd Club
GirlChild Press
Spindle
The Millions
Word Riot
The Rattling Wall
Suss
Union Station Magazine
CHAOS Magazine
Apiary Corp. (Local.)
Not Dalton's Kids (Online.)
Air Poetry (Online.)
The Writer's Almanac (Online.)
Ninth Letter
Third Coast
AGNI
The American Scholar
jubilat
The Kenyon Review
Seneca Review
Boston Review
American Poetry Review
Bateau Press
Devil's Lake
Linebreak (Online)
Prairie Schooner
Memorious
Ink Node
Tin House
Beloit Poetry Journal
Sonora Review
A cappella Zoo
OCTOPUS
cream city review
(Refer to the "Periodicals" [literary magazines and journals] page on this website.)
Consultant group:
Writer's Relief
Grants, fellowships, and scholarships:
Ruth Lilly Fellowships
National Student Poets Program
National Endowment for the Arts
The Star-Ledger Scholarship
Children's Poet Laureate
Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship
Creative Capital Artistic Grants
Kenyon Review Fellowships
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Writing Fellowships
Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowships
Wallace Stegner Fellowships
The Thea Foundation Poetry Slam Scholarship
The louderARTS Fellowship
Stradler Fellowships
The Pushcart Prize (Fellowships)
Jones Lectureship
The Jay C. and Ruth Halls Fellowship
The Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellowship
Distinguished Graduate Student Fellowship
The Rhodes Scholarships
The Chancellor's Graduate Fellowship
First Wave Urban Arts Scholarship
National Performance Network
The Jerome Foundation
The Zellerbach Family Foundation
The Len and Loulse Riggio Honors Program: Writing & Democracy/The Riggio Writing Fellows Program
Pew Fellowships in the Arts
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
Marshall Scholarship
The Rockefeller MAP Fund
New England Foundation for the Arts
Conferences, retreats, workshops, residencies:
Bread Loafs Writers Conference
Cave Canem
The Spoken Word Almanac
Blue Mountain Center
Verses & Flow
Philadelphia Alumni Writers House
Kelley Writers House
West Chester University Poetry Conference
The louderARTS Project Monday Workshops
The Philly Youth Poetry Movement
Study Abroad on the Bowery
Bowery WordShop
Poets House
Vermont Studio Center
Community of Writers at Squaw Valley
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Ragdale
Iowa Writers' Workshop
Santa Fe Art Institute
Cache Creek Nature Preserve's Writer-In-Residence
United States/Japan Creative Artists Residency
Madeleine P. Plonsker Residency
National Performance Network
New York Live Arts/Dance Theater Workshop
The Jerome Foundation
Flying Object
Oregon Literary Arts Writers-In-The-Schools
Kenyon's Young Writers Workshop
Education:
Project V.O.I.C.E.
Philly Youth Poetry Movement (PYPM) [High school.]
Space in Prisons for the Arts and Creative Expression (SPACE)
Mighty Writers (High school.)
Alzheimer's Poetry Project
Urban Word NYC
R.E.A.C.H. Communications, Inc.
Flying Object
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Ideas to market yourself and your poetry:
- Advertise and promote. (Flyers, pamphlets, newsletters, online advertisements, business cards, socially network.) Try to reach out to other groups of poets/writers and sell yourself to them. You may want to go in-person to these groups.
- Publish books. (Try to: Make books and/or chapters with themes. Incorporate art. Use different fonts, spacing, and sized words. Use typography. Make a novel in verse, like the Odyssey. Write a play. Use the spacing you want to use. Include a reference to an audio book/track/album, or to your website/blog. Make sure it has an excellent cover.)
- Submit work to literary magazines and journals. (Online, offline, free, and paid.) The idea is to just gain recognition whether you get paid or not.
- Compete in individual and team poetry competitions. (Citywide, regional, statewide, national, and international.)
- Make quality video and audio adaptions of your poetry. (Try using sound effects, animation, actors, props, costumes, instruments, and/or scenery.)
- Make a blog and/or website. Make sure you consistently add and do things, though. Keep people enticed and updated.
- Apply and reach out for jobs! (Jobs: Editor, facilitator, judge, director, competitor, curator, organizer, host, client, publisher, coach, teacher/educator, author, actor, fellow, performer, member, representative, consultant, contributor, etc.)
- Go to poetry retreats, conferences, and workshops.
- Go to open-mics.
- Reach out to other writers, including their forums, websites, and blogs.
- Make a Facebook page, Youtube, Tumblr and Twitter account. Make sure that you're active and consistently posting stuff on them.
- Make your own competitions, events, shows and parties.
- Collaborate with other people despite their art/discipline (dance, music, painting, acting, cinematography, etc). [Graduations, art exhibitions and galleries, bands and musicians, poetry conferences, animated videos, live-action videos, commercials, social events, professional meetings and events (such as TED), poetry slams, theater(s), dancers and dance companies, schools, award ceremonies, museums, festivals, radio, and whoever you work with or for.] You can look for cinematographers, photographers, dancers, and collaborators on the internet. (Vimeo and YouTube are good places to look.)
- Create an e-mail list of interested people who you send poems to regularly.
- Write poems for other people to give to their loved ones.
- Write poems for specific groups, causes, and events.
- Tour.
- Do book signings.
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- Modern Examples
Look up and research these people. You will see the various programs and organizations they were, or still are, a part of. These are places you can apply to or hopefully work for. That includes art, and writing, centers and venues.
George Watsky
Maya Angelou
Joshua Bennett
Nikki Giovanni
Miles Hodges
Robert Pinsky
Carvens Lissaint
Robert Peters
Alysia Harris
Patricia Smith
Zora Howard
Philip Levine
Jasmine Mans
Billy Collins
Sam Cook
Rita Dove
Jared Singer
Ted Kooser
Natasha Trethewey
M.S. Merwin
George Corbin
Lucille Clifton
Jeanann Verlee
Charles Bukowski
Jamaal May
Chris Tusa
Sarah Kay
Marilyn L. Taylor
Thomas Fucaloro
Wanda Phipps
Corrina Bain
Naomi Shihab Nye
Joanna Hoffman
Nimah I. Nawwab
Jon Sands
Cornelius Eady
Phil Kaye
Deborah Ager
Catalina Ferro
Alice Walker
Ms. Wise (Alyesha Wise)
Zach Buscher
Denice Frohman
Brittany Cavallaro
Perry DiVirgilio
Rebecca Hazelton
Aysha El-Shamayleh
Nancy Reddy
Taylor Mali
Rae Gouirand
Noel Scales
Ansel Elkins
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Sara Michas-Martin
Seff Al-Friqi
Elizabeth Willis
Shannon Matesky
C. Dale Young
Kirya Trayber
Sarah Crossland
Chinaka Hodge
Paul Watsky
Mayda Del Valle
Susan Chast
Jamaica Osorio
Lisa Chun
Rafael Casal
Emily Pettit
Bassey Ikpi
Mary Oliver
Brook Yung
CAConrad
Beau Sia
Mark Strand
Shane Koyczan
Natasha Trethewey
Glynn Washington
Eileen Myles
Ben Alisuag
Rebecca Lindenberg
Kesed Ragin
Eduardo C. Corral
Andrea Gibson
Zachary Schomburg
Derrick Brown
D.A. Powell
Rudy Francisco
Elizabeth Alexander
Omar Musa
David Baker
John G. Rives
Kimiko Hahn
Alix Olson
Terrance Hayes
Suheir Hammad
Staceyann Chin
Michelle Tea
Apollo Poetry (Sevan Aydinian)
Saul Williams
Jamila Woods
Marty McConnell
Shira Erlichman
Eboni Hogan
Carol Rothstein
Aja Monet
Adam Faulkner
Ken Arkind
Lauren Zuniga
Mahogany L. Browne
Michael Cirelli
Sean Patrick Conlon
Geoff Kagan Trenchard
Shappy Seasholtz
Vanessa Hidary
Tonya Simone Ingram
Emily Kagan Trenchard
Barbara Fant
Regie Cabico
Anis Mojgani
Buddy Wakefield
Robbie Q. Telfer
Carlos Andres Gomez
Franny Choi
Lemon Andersen
Jamie DeWolf
Marc Bamuthi Joseph