This directory helps poets match rhyme to reason when marketing their work. In it they will find 1,700 up-to-date listings--more than 300 new ones--of book and magazine publishers seeking poetry; contests and awards; grants awarded by the U.S. and Canadian arts councils; conferences, workshops, and writers' colonies; and pertinent organizations and publications. Illustrations.

Addressed to all readers of poetry, this is a wide-ranging book about the poet's role throughout the last three centuries. It argues that a conception of the poets as both primitive and sophisticated emerged in the 1750s. Encouraged by the classroom when English literary works began to be studied in universities, this view continues to shape our own attitudes towards verse. Whether considering Ossian and the Romantics, Victorian scholar-gipsies, Modernist poetries of knowledge, or contemporary poetry in Britian, Ireland, and America, The Modern Poet shows how many successive generations of poets have needed to collaborate and to battle with academia.

This poet's directory contains 1,700 listings of U.S. and international publishers, Canadian and U.S. arts councils, contests and awards, conference and workshops, writing colonies, organizations, and publications.

What distinguishes this from other poetry market guides is the guiding hand of Judson Jerome, who knows poetry equally well from its aesthetic and its business ends. In addition to all the expected features, he adds a coding system for identifying the level and type of submission desired, a welcome time and ego saver. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

An annually published directory of book and magazine publishers, contest information, conference and workshop listings and writers' organizations, plus writing and marketing tips.

This poet's directory contains 1,700 listings--U.S. and international publishers, Canadian and U.S. art councils, contests and awards, conferences and workshops, writing colonies, organizations and publications. Poets will also find advice on submission formats, cover letters, record-keeping, and other aspects of submitting.

2009 Poet's Market will give you all the information necessary to research markets and submit your poetry for publication. In addition to market listings, you'll find guidance for preparing and submitting manuscripts, identifying markets, relating to editors, and more. Plus, the book includes additional listings for conferences, workshops, organizations for poets, print and online resources, and the latest trends in poetry writing and publishing.

It's a must read for aspiring poets and published poets who want to expand their market.

In each of the 1,700 listings in Poet's Market, poet/author Judson Jerome meets the special needs of poets by providing detailed analysis of the markets. Jerome also answers the most asked questions about how to get published and offers advice and inspiration to poets.