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anyways read this:
" Poetry.com is a fraud publishing organization that features it's online writing contest. It literally accepts 100% of applicants as 'Semi-finalists' in their 'international poetry competition' and sends a letter to the poor victims. The letter is full of flattery saying that you are a wonderful poet and the 'sectional committee' or 'panel of judges' has decided your poetry is good enough to be published. They ask a 'modest' payment of $50 plus extra if you want your page on a page of it's own. Publishing only those who paid, 6000 poems per book at $50-$75 a poem with 60 books published a year is a lot of $$$$.
Flattered writers are quick to give them money and order a few copies of the book they were featured in. After some time a message saying their poetry was good enough to be read on a cd then asking you to go to some expensive winning writers convention and getting a silver cup comes in. It's all to leach more money from the ones that haven't found out they've been scammed. They were even featured on ABC's 20/20. You can read about that in this link HERE from windpub.com (see moreinfo page). They have been scamming people since 1996 and continue to do so! It's disgusting because the state they're in LETS the continue to operate, despite all the complaints. If you need more evidence just search "poetry.com Scam" on google search.
--Misconceptions--
Poetry.com does NOT publish your work if you do not pay for the book.
Poetry.com publishes 50+ books a year and does NOT sell them anywhere other than to the victims of their scam.
--Don't believe me?--
Have some fun and enter the contest. Write a crude poem about jibberish. Words like poetry.com, "dot com", sucks, etc will cause you not to get the letter. If you already used your address in the last couple of months use a friends address. You can also add a DR or ST to indicate drive or street and it may catch it as a different address in the database. "
http://www.eliteskills.com/writing_scams/poetry.com.scam.php
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and this funny comment:
"WRITERSWEEKLY.COM COMMENT: We stopped posting complaints about Poetry.com long ago because we couldn't keep up with them (so many!). However, this heart-breaking story is one you have to read."
this was back in 2002, so you can guess how many more complaints they've gotten O_O!
although Wikipedia says (probably accurate) that no successful legal action has been taken against Poetry.com, because the "books" are actually real, they just arent disseminated anywhere, have 0 checks on quality, and are essentially designed to steal money from naive people.
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Oh god, that's even more exploitative than I thought. Makes the brag post really fucking funny though.
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Yo Roie you should make a poem about how Sirlin SLOWS TIME
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id nominate that for worst possible rhyme award
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Korea (South)11575 Posts
hehe 5 years ago i sent in a poem that i did for an english project in 8th grade
+ Show Spoiler +The men standing on the other side
Seemed to be always endlessly supplied
Not once did they stop coming
And I always heard their drumming
It never stopped echoing through my head
As I saw the children who bled a deep, deep red
I could never understand the reason of man
Until the fighting of the centaury began
The power of the confederates will never die
The battle would not just zip on by
The war was a horrific time
Why won't war just be a crime?
The bullet slashed into my side
I would die with all of my pride
I felt as cold as the flakes falling from the silky blanket above
I let my eyes go and heaven is what I will be part of.
and got the same thing. i thought i was good or something, and then i googled poetry.com and found out it was a huge scam. my hopes were crushed instantly
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I also agree with the criticisms of the rhyme scheme o_O the poem itself in its tone and diction seems really amateur, and "it's" the second time it is used didn't have the apostrophe... that is a huge grammatical error ;p
tons of random vague imagery and cliche statements also oo;
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Holy crap...
That's... genius.
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This is worse than a Rick-Roll.
This is a Poem-POW @ your face.
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