Top 5 Tips for Promoting Your Poetry Book, Poems in Faerie Magazine and Cincinnati Review, and Summertime Poetry

Top Tips for Promoting Your Poetry Book

First, thanks to Serena Augusto-Cox for hosting my blog post at Savvy Verse &Wit – my post is “Top Five Tips for Promoting Your Poetry Book” from my book PR for Poets!

Poems in Faerie Magazine’s Mermaid Issue and Cincinnati Review’s Summer Edition

Yesterday brought an abundance of poetry – the new Summer 2018 issue of Cincinnati Review, which contains, among other things, one of my new poems, “Self-Portrait as Late August Evening” – and the new Mermaid issue of Faerie Magazine is out, with three illustrated poems by me, including “The Little Mermaid Warns You.” They do a beautiful job with their magazine!

Summertime Poetry Season

Lavender and Roses in Kirkland

Summertime is almost here, and along with it, eating salads for breakfast, some excellent bird-watching and gardening experiments, and a weird season for poetry because we seem to have more time to write – those late still sunny nights…but fewer lit mags are open to submissions. It’s a great time to schedule some catch-up time with friends and work on neglected poetry manuscripts.

I was sitting out on my back deck watching herons swoop by, the towhee swishing around my trees, and saw this beautiful and rarely seen Western Tanager. It swooped into a sunbeam long enough for me to get these pictures.

So, as I’m going around talking about PR for Poets, I’ve been investigating the latest news in promoting books. I’ve even been trying out Instagram (check out my attempts @webbish6) and reading up on the newest ways publishers are trying to promote books, like the power of Goodreads (read a case study of Little Fires Everywhere here.) Now there’s talk of the coming demise of Barnes & Nobles and how that will affect the book world. Yet the world needs poetry more than ever, and I notice that I read more books in the summer myself. So what are your summer strategies for staying motivated and inspired?