Thanks! With this novel I didn't even bother considering the traditional route, it's not "literary" enough on the one end, nor "explicit" enough on the other. But you should definitely try it.

I used http://www.lulu.com (print-on-demand and eBook), Amazon Kindle and http://www.smashwords.com (sends to various other sellers, including Kobo and Apple). I've also listed it on http://www.goodreads.com which I really enjoy as a community.

I originally got blocked from Amazon, so I changed the blurb to state that the character is over-18 and I also got rejected flat-out by AllRomance.com. The irony is that both those platforms have way, way harder core stuff than my writing. However I'm back on Kindle now so fingers crossed.

I usually write murder mysteries so if and when I ever get to publish one of those, I should be fine!

One of the hardest things has been managing nom-de-plumes. I don't want this book connected with my real life identity in any public way, nor with my murder mystery identify, but I found the ISBNs were registering to my real name as publisher. I contacted the ISBN people and they changed it to my author name. Likewise I found that my username was identifying me on Smashwords, so I emailed them and they were kind enough to change it.

Then of course you need to do all the social media accounts for every pen name you use, which is some considerable work too.

http://www.goodreads.com is just an amazing community of people, so supportive and so busy. I definitely recommend getting on there now and getting to know people interested in poetry. You may find some of them will be your first reviewers.