A Comprehensive Guide To Publishing Poetry On Medium
Best Practices, Tips & Tricks, and What Not To Do
This is for anyone who publishes poetry or plans to, on Medium.
Offline poetry is something different. The formatting options and creative iconography are endless. In our journals or on our typewriters, or even in a document, we can use spacing for emphasis. We can freely indent on a piece of paper the exact amount we think is necessary to tell a small part of the story, without using more words. But this is Medium.
When it comes to poetry on Medium, there aren’t many formatting options and I know you may think this is an odd thing to say, but I think that’s a good thing. A site like this is visually pleasing because of its consistency. Even though we are all different as writers, the limited formatting options make the screen pretty similar no matter who you are reading. Poets don’t like this.
Poets on Medium try to come up with ways to use formatting to enhance their work, but the truth is, there isn’t much you can do. And isn’t it a better thing that the full breadth of power has to come from our words on here? I think it is. Would I like an easier way to indent once in a while? Actually, no, but I bet some would. But we can only work with the options we are given.
