How do I find a poetry contest or a way to publish poems?

[complex]

I have quite a few poems and I am interested in submitting them to a contest or publishing them in some kind of magazine or something. Maybe something for young poets? Anyone know of something like that or how to find something?

[Dark Set]

i have 600 poems.. a full love story in 600 poems.. in prosses of copywriting and publishing..

if you want an individual poem publish on the web try
poetry.com

if you want to publish a book
im using this publishing thing
is not expencive and is basic...

http://www2.xlibris.com/pubservices/ps_Basic.asp
Xlibris.Com

[elly]

The best place to publish poems is a poetry journal. Some of them even pay you, but if you get into a non-paying one it's still good exposure. Just do a search for "poetry journal" and there's heaps to choose from. You might want to add your country to the search as a lot of journals like local work and some only pay you if you live in the country that publishes them. Just go to a sight and look under submissions and it gives you all the details. Expect some rejections and be prepared to rework your poems - supposedly a work of art is never finished, only abandoned.

Once you've had a few poems published you might get lucky enough to get offered a book deal.

Here are some sites to start you off:
http://www.americanpoetryjournal.com/
http://www.zafusy.com/
http://www.tigerseyejournal.com/journal_guidelines.htm

Good luck!

ps. stay away from poetry.com, they just want you to buy their book.

[the charleston dancer]

i teach 7th grade and i am having the kids enter a contest. this is the link.