At one point, a novice poet has a question - how to make others read them? Local newspapers are reluctant to publish poetry, it is difficult to get into a "thick" magazine, to publish a book at their own expense is expensive. But on the Internet there are many resources where you can post your poems.
Oldest Poetic Resource
One of the first literary resources in the "World Wide Web" is the site "Poems.ru", colloquially referred to as "stichera". This is a free server with free registration. It is quite simple to register on the site, you need to enter the most common data. You can create your own page and post your own poems written in different genres. Having decided to place the poem, click on the link on your page. Windows will open in front of you, where you need to enter the name and text, as well as put down the heading. Post the poem. You can rest assured that it will be read that very evening, or maybe they will write a comment. On this resource you can publish critical articles, prose poems, poetry translations.
Poetry, Samizdat and others
Poems and prose works can be posted on the Samizdat.ru website. It is a free publishing resource. You can indicate information about yourself - your interests, the city in which you live, your views on literature. Before publishing works, you must read the rules. The works must comply with the requirements of Russian legislation. A rather large and old poetic resource is Poetziya.ru. There you can post not only poetry, but also essays and critical articles about poetry. On this resource, there are constant discussions of literary works, sometimes very stormy.
Especially for translators
For more than ten years there has been a literary resource dedicated to poetry translation. This is The Age of Translation. It consists of a website itself, where each translator has its own page, and a forum. Free publication on the main site is not provided, first the translator must participate in the forum. By the way, the forum has a section in which poets-translators publish their own poems.
Social networks
Nothing prevents you from posting your poems on social networks. The LiveJournal platform is most suitable for this. VKontakte and Facebook are less convenient. On social networks, you can publish whatever you are interested in, as well as find fellow writers. Each social network has communities that are visited by those who write poetry themselves or just love to read them. To find a suitable group, it is enough to indicate the poetry in the interests, go to your page and click on the link that appears. If you are not comfortable with existing communities, you can always create your own. You can also post poetry to blogs on other platforms, such as My World or Google+.
