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If you want to publish poetry in things that are NOT scams, buy a copy of the most recent The Poet's Market. Granted, most of the time you are going to be told no in a form letter. I used tricks to see if they even read the poems at all, and found in many cases they didn't. But I have been published in some very nice magazines. The pay is usually an author's copy, but you keep the copyright to your poem as well. Some do pay, and of course that is what we all would like to get. Out of over 100 published poems, probably closer to 150, I've made maybe $75 dollars total. The most I was ever paid for a single poem was $15. But the magazines are out there, and they publish poems. I could paper a room with rejections, but I'm thrilled to have the published ones I do have! Good luck!
Pendragon.
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What is wrong with vanity publishing? How is it different from anything else?
poetry.com published a series of my poems, sent me three of the 12 I had submitted on beautifully crafted plaques, sent me a complimentary sweater with what they considered was my best go - and, oh, yes, they did ask for money. The bastards. They asked me to donate 2 dollars to some charity, I don't remember which, if I could. Which I didn't, because I couldn't, but it did not seem to be a problem.
Maybe it's because I write good stuff, not pathetic crap like most people who write.
