Table of Contents

Part I - Presenting Your Poetry

1. How To Present Your Poetry to Editors 
   
2. Yes, Neatness Counts 
   
3. Returning Poems Timely & Tastefully 
   
4. Dear Sirs: How To Offend 
   
5. When To Send Again 
   
6. Keeping Records 
   
7. When You Care Enough To Send 
   
8. Bios 
   
9. Keep Those Cards & Letters Coming 
   
10. Arrogant Editors 
    
11. Contributor's Notes 
    
12. Recidivism At Its Best 
    
13. Who Are You? 
    
14. Ouch, Don't Let Them Bounce! 
    
15. What To Do With Your Best Poem 
    
16. You Are An Editor 
    
17. Copyright 
    
18. Problems of Simultaneous Submissions 
    
19. Overweight Envelopes 
    
20. How To Prepare for Submitting 
    
21. Coping With Rejection 
    
22. This Is Weird...Written In the Wind

II. Awards & Contests

1. Are The Major Awards Inbred?
   
2. What About Those Contests?
   
3. Anthologies: Should You Be In One?
   
4. Common Errors In Contest Submissions
   
5. Judging Our Contests
   
6. Win A Subscription

III. Poetic Posterity

1. Poetry Prize Endowments 
   
2. Friends of CWG 
   
3. Gifts of Poetry 
   
4. Blank Page Books 
   
5. The Present File 
   
6. Why Most Great Poems Die After Publication 
   
7. Poetry For Progeny -- Video Yourself 
   
8. How We Keep Poetry in Circulation 
   
9. Keeping Poetry Alive & Well -- Making Your Will 
   
10. Swing Low, Sweet Muse... When You Are Gone

IV. Poetry Groups

1. Hiring A Local Professor 
   
2. Creating Your Own Workshops 
   
3. Poet Groupies????? 
   
4. Pop Poets...The Emperor's New Clothes 
   
5. The Poetry Marathon

V. The Printed Word

1. Why Subscribing Is Not Enough 
   
2. Good Poetry Mags... We Want To See Them All! 
   
3. How The Comstock Review Is Made 
   
4. You've Got The Wrong Journal 
   
5. How To Make Your Own Chapbook 
   
6. Poetry Collections -- Unifying Theme or Random Selections? 
   
7. Where Are The Ethnic Poets?

VI. DOO WAH DITTY!

1. ...;...!!!!!...;----;, ETC. 
   
2. Greeting Card Verse 
   
3. There's More To Trim Than The Trees 
   
4. Bad Poems & Great Last Lines 
   
5. Ontogeny Recapitulates Philogeny 
   
6. Beautiful Words That Say Nothing 
   
7. Titles...Why They Make A Difference 
   
8. Are You In Adjectival Overdrive? 
   
9. What's Wrong With English? 
   
10. Religious Zealots

VII. The Pro Circuit

1. Will You Ever Be Poet Laureate? 
   
2. What It Takes To Go Pro...Could You Do It? 
   
3. Connections 
   
4. Should Poets Be Paid?

VIII. Humor

1. Actual Chinese Rejection Slip 

VIII. ADDITIONAL ARTICLES BY OTHER POETS

     1.  Lost in the Woods (Poetry Workshops)
    by Angelo Giambra, Largo, FL  added 8-08  

     2.  Creative Cowardice
     by Diana Anhalt   added  02-06-07