The most productive way to sell poems is to write them for a specific order or in accordance with the customer's parameters. For example, various short poetic texts for greeting cards for all occasions are in demand. Poems written "for oneself" are much more difficult to sell, but there are still chances.
It is necessary
- - a computer;
- - access to the Internet;
- - patience.
Instructions
Step 1
Various freelance exchanges serve as a tool for finding customers; there may be cooperation offers for authors of poetic texts also on job search sites (in the headings for offers of remote work and vacancies in the media, publishing, printing, art). This is not to say that there are many such proposals, but from time to time they appear.
Companies that produce products with poetic texts have their own sites, where a section is usually provided for new authors with the terms of cooperation and requirements for poetry.
Step 2
If you have found a customer, carefully read the requirements, negotiate the term and price, and by the required date offer a work (or several) that correspond to his requests. If these conditions are met, you will receive your royalties, and your cooperation will most likely continue.
Step 3
Opportunities to publish a collection of poems, if you do not have a well-known name in literature, are minimal today. Publishers try not to get involved with novice poets, perhaps only at their own expense, but this is usually an expensive pleasure for the author. And then the circulation must be stored somewhere and somehow sold.
But this does not reduce the opportunity to see your poetic text published and get paid for it completely to zero. To realize your chance, you need to offer poetry in as many places as possible: paper and online magazines, almanacs, collective collections. At first, you should not shy away from royalty-free publications, and, perhaps, pay a little money for publication. Sooner or later someone will like a worthwhile work, and then an appropriate offer will follow.
