A poet recently wrote to ask me if he should send me a review copy of his book. Many poets do, and I do my best to help them spread the word and market their book.

One of my goals with 32 Poems is to help promote the work of the writers we publish. We do that by submitting 32 Poems to places that regonize poems — the big yearly anthologies, major poetry web sites, etc.

Another way I help to promote the work of writers is to post my “notes” to my blog. These are not reviews. Instead, they are a collection of my first-draft thoughts in response to the book. We do get a fair number of visitors to this blog, and it certainly adds up over time.

For 32 Poems Contributors: If your book is published on a small press with a small budget — not Norton, David Godine, HM, etc — then I also offer (as space allows) the opportunity to have a complementary ad for your book on the back of 32 Poems. I can’t guarantee that space will be available and art needs to be provided by the writer. We only have room for two ads per issue, and we’re only published two times a year. An ad will give you visibility to the hundreds of people reading 32 Poems. It goes to all of our subscribers and lives on in libraries at Johns Hopkins, University of Florida, Yale, Brown, etc.