Ramblings of a man who should not have a pen

[OrphanPip]

Publishing poetry is a major hassle that will cost you time and money, but also gives you a bit of a satisfaction, I know published poets personally but I don't do the creative writing thing too seriously myself.

Books of poetry are essentially impossible to have published unless you're already famous and being studied in universities. Unless you self publish, but that's not really ever the same thing.

That means you have to submit poems to magazines, getting in famous ones like the Chicago Review would be a major accomplishment, though even the poets published there usually have established careers already. University undergraduate magazines are a good place to start, look around in your state for local literary quarterlies.