Comments on: How many poems for an anthology? http://www.illinoisvoices.com/poem-anthology/how-many-poems-for-an-anthology Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:19:18 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: king_of_new_england http://www.illinoisvoices.com/poem-anthology/how-many-poems-for-an-anthology/comment-page-1#comment-1801 king_of_new_england Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:52:59 +0000 http://www.illinoisvoices.com/poem-anthology/how-many-poems-for-an-anthology#comment-1801 This really depends on how long each poem is, as well as personal taste. 99 poems sounds like a nice number, but how long does this make the anthology? Since this is your first collection, forgive me, but I doubt you have a large following eager to devour thousands of your pages. For this reason, I would not go much past 99 pages. Walt Whitman first published "Leaves of Grass" as a relatively small collection, but over the course of his life he expanded this. A professor of mine published his first anthology of poems with 128 pages and 57 poems of varrying length. My suggestion would be to keep it between 50 and 100 pages (give or take for title page and pictures, etc.) with an easy to read font size.<br><b>References : </b><br> This really depends on how long each poem is, as well as personal taste. 99 poems sounds like a nice number, but how long does this make the anthology? Since this is your first collection, forgive me, but I doubt you have a large following eager to devour thousands of your pages. For this reason, I would not go much past 99 pages.

Walt Whitman first published "Leaves of Grass" as a relatively small collection, but over the course of his life he expanded this.

A professor of mine published his first anthology of poems with 128 pages and 57 poems of varrying length.

My suggestion would be to keep it between 50 and 100 pages (give or take for title page and pictures, etc.) with an easy to read font size.
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