Poetry Goals (cont.)

I want to make sure that doesn’t happen, so I’m setting myself some poetry goals.

Please note that I define goals as things I have control over. A goal to submit 3 poetry collections to my agent to market is fine. A goal to sell one of those collections isn’t. I have no control over whether an editor buys a collection. I can only do my work, practice, revise, and meet my own deadlines. Then I have to let each project go and move on with other writing, while I hope an editor loves my projects being marketed.

So, here are my poetry goals for 2008: