I write tuns of poetry, but what should I do with it now?

i am a poet also...i get the same response from my parents. what i did was started asking english teachers what there opinion was. get a teacher you trust to read your poetry and get your opinion. as for whether or not to get it published wait for a truthful response. good luck with whatever you do. not every one has the same taste in poetry, so someone will like it....whether or not you use the word "tuns" correctly or not :)

The first thing you should do is run a spell-checker on them!

After that, you may want to consider what it takes to become a published poet (and no, I am not talking about a self-published poet-- that only requires money and a serious lack of self-editing).

If your parents say "wow," it should be followed by, "better have a good day job." Sadly, most poets see very little money for their poetry. They often make money by peripheral means, such as teaching professionally, running private workshops, private tutoring, and judging contests. It's still not a lot of money.

But if you are serious, then you should like reading, because you should plan to do more of that than writing. If you teach, you are going to read a TON of work before you get your degree and then a TON of student work afterwards.

To be a poet means embracing rejection. You are going to get way more rejection than you ever will acceptance. Can you handle the constant denial of your work? Seriously, can you? And then there are the poetry cliques and the politics of the "PoBiz" and the constant anger/frustration/futility you will feel every time you see a crappy, half-assed written poem being celebrated by the very people who sent you a cold, form rejection slip.

If you can handle that. Then once you've managed to publish a half-dozen or so poems in really good (not quality, mind you, just reputation) magazines, then you will stand a fighting chance of having your book published.

It's a tough career. A white elephant career. You should know this before you decide that poetry is the commitment you want for yourself.

Before you try publishing a book written by you, why don't you read some other books, written by real writers? Start with the Dictionary (it's not literature, I know) and find out that the word "tun" is not what you think it is. "Tuns" of poetry... now, that's a poetic image.

I have never read your poems, but, judging by your horrible spelling and by the general aspect of your written discourse, I think that whatever you wrote is not worth publishing it.

(And now, defenders of mediocrity and semi-literacy, give me your thumbs down!)

indeed. My thumb was itching what can i say.

Brush up on spelling and everything, and start small maybe entering local contests to see if people are really interesting, Opportunities will arise then.