4 Basic Tips to Immediately Improve Your Poetry

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Hi to my paid subscribers

Here is the first of many hints and tips to improve your poetry writing, and possibly guide you to a standard where you can earn a living from your poems, as I have done for many years.

Yes, regardless of what many people believe, it is possible to make a good living from writing poetry (without publishing books)

Basic essential tips for presenting your poetry.

As a professional poet (which means I get paid for writing poetry for companies and individuals) and a poetry teacher, as well as guest poetry critiquer for various poetry forums, I read poems daily on lots of platforms, including Medium and Substack.

What do you think the general standard is? Here is my opinion, and this would be the opinion of any proficient poetry writer.

75% is poor to abysmal

10% is average

10% is good but poorly presented

the remaining 5% is good to excellent

Here are some basic essentials that will immediately improve the presentation of your poetry on Medium and Substack: