In short, self-published, no editors involved, no payment. Beyond that, posting stuff on web sites and reading stuff at poetry readings and poetry slams.

I know a number of self-proclaimed poets who go that circuit. They never send their stuff in to established publishers (book publishers, even poetry magazines). Why not? I'm pretty sure it's because their egos can't handle a possibly negative evaluation by a professional editor. Without that, they can go on living in their dream world of being an undiscovered genius, but right up there with Yeats or Dickinson.

Don Firth