How do i publish a book of poetry [not self publish]? Please?

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I know I’m only 14, but when people read my poetry they say it sounds like something a published poet would write. They say it’s deeper, stronger and more advance then most teens my age can write.
I’ve reached about 35 poems [each ranging from about 2 pages to 3] [I started poetry mostly when I was 13, a little bit when I was 10] and would like to publish them. I brought this up with my parents and they want to self publish it. Yet I want it out on the market.
It’s not ‘I-lost-my-boyfriend-boo-hoo’ poetry, it’s more like in-depth feelings behind things and also stories in the form of verses. They take on more serious subjects like car accidents, suicide, loosing someone you love and bad decisions. I think this will market to people of all ages. [I didn’t sully write poetry to sell it, just so you know. It’s more of an outlet]
So how do I go about publishing? Do I need to get a literary agent for poetry? Do I pay them, or do they pay me? I checked past questions but I’m a bit slow so I kind of need a step by step guide written in Basic English.
If you want to check out my poetry you can go to this site: http://www.writerscafe.org/writers/xxameliarosexx

Thanks.

thanks
i love to read poetry- Lord Tennyson, Poe, William Shakespeare, Tim Burton [ha ha], etc etc. the old ones basically
 
Whoa. Your poems are really good, really, really good. Well, I can't exactly help you with publishing it yourself, but I do have a few suggestions.

Go to the local library, your school library, or your language arts teacher, ask them about it, see if they can pull any strings, usually they can.

Otherwise, look up a publisher, and send your poems to them, either they'll send a letter back saying your peotry needs more work, or that its good, and they'll help.

Sorry if those don't help. D=
 
Whoa. Your poems are really good, really, really good. Well, I can't exactly help you with publishing it yourself, but I do have a few suggestions.

Go to the local library, your school library, or your language arts teacher, ask them about it, see if they can pull any strings, usually they can.

Otherwise, look up a publisher, and send your poems to them, either they'll send a letter back saying your peotry needs more work, or that its good, and they'll help.

Sorry if those don't help. D=
 
Before a publisher will be interested in publishing a book of your work, you'll have to establish a reputation by publishing individual poems in literary magazines. For information on journals that publish poetry, look at the book "Poet's Market." Your local library might have a copy.

http://www.poetsmarket.com/

For information about online poetry journals, look at this site:

http://www.newpages.com/NPGuides/litmags_online.htm

Be sure to read lots of poetry by poets living and dead. If you've written 35 poems, you should have read at least 3,500. You'll learn a lot about the art of writing by studying what others have written, and you'll learn a lot about what poetry editors are looking for by reading what they've published in recent editions of their magazines.
 
Amazing Poetry very much :). But I don't really have much more suggestions than XxEmu, which would seem to work best in my opinion :).
 
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