At the Ranch is a collection of poems that I brought together in March of 2025. I had a feeling that it was about time to bring out a few more poems together, as I had been conducting my yearly reading and review of poets from Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton to Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, and many others, and I had been writing a few new poems myself.
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It has happened to me, and I imagine it has happened to many of you: an aspiring poet is ready to “do something” with his or her work but needs a little help in knowing how to get it published (or “publicated,” as I have heard it called). Sometimes it is difficult to respond to such a request, but I have stumbled onto a few points that could be useful to others in giving direction to the emerging poet.
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