Tips for Better Poetry on Blogging Platforms

because your poetry deserves the fairest shot it can get

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This article will discuss some things you can do to improve your poetry and its presentation on blogging platforms. The author would like to express that these tips are just that — tips, not rules. Your poetry is yours and all editorial and design decisions are yours.

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We all want our poetry to sing. We want it to soar to heights unseen. *Insert 100 other clichés here*

We pour ourselves into our poetry and work very hard to hone this challenging craft. I find that personally, poetry takes me days to write when I can bang out an article (five times the amount of words) in half the time.

After all this work, and heart, and pure creative grit, why wouldn’t we take the time to perfect its presentation?

First and foremost — and some pubs will even require this (Thank you!)— get rid of the double-spacing.

I can not shout this loud enough. That double-spacing is so ultra-annoying to me that I find myself refusing to even read double-spaced poems.