Can a person have a successful career in writing poetry?how?

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Can a person have a successful career in writing poetry?how?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Wow, that's a tough question. It seems like most successful poets are dead, and they were not successful while living.

I would suggest trying to email or mail your poems to a magazine such as Readers Digest or another similar magazine. I'm sure they don't pay premium prices, but you may get some published.

Try to contact a publishing company and give them a sample of your work. Be open to criticism, and never give up, what one person hates another loves, so try a lot of different people before you decide to retire a particular poem. Good luck, hope to see a book of poems in the future.