Moreover, there are several magazines that want to invite him to be a columnist.

Since the timeliness of various large journals and magazines is not high, most of them are monthly.

Therefore, in order to make more money in a short period of time, Cao Zhiqiang collected enough publishing fees for "Shattered Void" as soon as possible. He also found some of the most impressive Internet celebrity poems among the 3,000 selected modern poems and planned to submit them to poetry magazines.

The first choice is "Seeing and Not Seeing".

But this time, Cao Zhiqiang did not mail it to foreign magazines.

He personally came to the headquarters of Poetry Magazine in Beijing, personally found one of the middle-aged male editors named Yu, and submitted the poem "Seeing and Not Seeing" in person, which later became an Internet celebrity.

The pen name is still "Qianzi".

This poem, in fact, its real name is "The Silence of Banzaguru Pema", which contains the line "You will see me, or you will not see me". It is also a poem that was widely circulated on the Internet in later generations, but in fact it was controversial.

Even if that poem is controversial in later generations, here, in the spring of 1983, he wrote it, and he is the undisputed original author.

At this moment, no one will compete with him for the copyright of this poem.

Although the literary quality of this poem is just that, the artistic conception is good and it is easier to understand.

Even for some ordinary people who are not well versed in poetry, they are easily touched by this poem and it is very easy to move people's hearts.

Most of the things in this world that are popular are the most profitable.

The editor was not a fool. He took a liking to his poem at first sight and agreed to publish it.

But the price is not high, only five yuan for a line of poetry.

At this time, it was the last twilight era of modern poetry.

For things like modern poetry, the price is not based on the price per thousand words, but based on the number of lines.

The more popular the poem and the more famous the author, the higher the remuneration per line.

For example, for sonnets, give fourteen lines the money.

Generally speaking, formal and large-scale magazines like Poetry Magazine have very high standards for the poems they collect, and they pay a lot of money.

For example, if a new author's work is included, a line of poetry will be paid three yuan.

For poems by slightly famous poets, one line of poetry is usually paid for about five yuan.

Five yuan per line was basically the upper limit of remuneration for newcomers' poetry at this time. No matter how high it was, it was for well-known poets.

Cao Zhiqiang is a pure newcomer who has never published any works before. If someone asks for your poem, agrees to publish it in the next issue of the magazine, and gives you five yuan per line, it is actually very good. This shows that the editor is very optimistic about his work.

Appreciate him.

In this way, Cao Zhiqiang earned 85 yuan from the poetry magazine for his 17-line modern poem "Seeing and Not Seeing".

Although the money was not much, it was less than three months' salary.

What really surprised him was that after the poem was published, it became an instant hit and quickly caused a huge response and sensation across the country.

Yes, he has written so many articles and submitted articles before, but none of them really became popular. At most, the royalties have become higher.

Fortunately, now, with just this poem, his pseudonym Qiangzi has become famous throughout the country!

The redness happened so suddenly and quickly.
Chapter completed!