beware 'Poetry Contest'

[Eric, son of Chuck]

Found this in my Hotmail inbox this morning. Anyone else get something similar? Does anybody have any information about this? I'd rather not submit poetry unless they have a firm understanding of copyrights.


FREE Poetry Contest!! Win $10,000.00!!!

64.49.223.16/linkc/sat_b/go.php3?27

Enter the International Open Amateur Poetry Contest for
your chance to win the Grand Prize of $10,000.00!

Click here for details
64.49.223.16/linkc/sat_b/go.php3?27


Good Luck!!

[Admin]

Any valid poetry contest is not going to spam you to try to get submissions.

Its probably an International Library of Poetry Wannabe.

[doug Arnold]

Poetry.com is a particularly greedy one. But be careful with these, they are very good at stroking your ego.
Recommend: www.house-of-poetry.com to get the low down on vanity publishing. (Though if they are there to destroy the opposition to an equally bad scam I cannot say).

[Admin]

Ya, see the important thread I made in the Poetry forum.

[satyrnchild]

I just don't see how anyone can not see that they are form letters that they send to everyone. Even when they have that handwritten section at the top of the letter to make it seem more personalized, it's still obviously printed and not written. Luckily I've only purchased one book with my poem in it. I didn't go to the covention nor purchase the poems on tape, or the plaque. I've always had a feeling that ILP was too good to be true, and indeed it is!


Poetry.com is a particularly greedy one. But be careful with these, they are very good at stroking your ego.
Recommend:house-of-poetry.com to get the low down on vanity publishing. (Though if they are there to destroy the opposition to an equally bad scam I cannot say).

[yellowfeverlime]

I have heard untrustworthy things about things like that. Be careful.

[yellowfeverlime]

Never send ANYTHING TO POETRY.COM. Never. EVER!

[Janine]

Sounds like a scam, definitely. Beware of sender!

[thefemalemind]

Never send ANYTHING TO POETRY.COM. Never. EVER!

why? I've sent 2 poems in there and gotten them both published.

[Logos]

Ya, see the important thread I made in the Poetry forum.

Here's the link for anyone who missed it:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=833
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[Virgil]

Isn't this the same thread name for our poetry contest? Are we allowed to have the same name for more than one thread? I'm getting confused.

[Logos]

Well.. it was a topic over a year old, but I've now slightly changed the title :p

[Virgil]

Thank you. :)

[Laura11]

Oh, I did write a small poem for poetry.com, because poetry's one of my hobbies, and I received a letter saying that my poem had been selected to take part of a beautiful coffee tamble book of poems. Well that was like a compliment for my vanity but deep at heart I was some how sceptic and I didn't accept the inclusion of my poem in the book nor did I make any steps to buy it.
This is the poem:

To A Poet

Continue with your words, my friend,
please keep on writing so,
don't let your mind forget your trend
of seeing life's fun go.
You see the little things of life
and put them into words;
good thing you see its funny side
to make us laugh non-stop.

Laura

Honestly, what do you think of it? I don't mind if you say horrible critics about it. I'm just someone who like writing and want to learn.

[Kebi]

I really like it. I never thought of writing a poem letter style, clever. Hmmm, maybe i'll give it a go.

[Pendragon]

If you want to publish poetry in things that are NOT scams, buy a copy of the most recent The Poet's Market. Granted, most of the time you are going to be told no in a form letter. I used tricks to see if they even read the poems at all, and found in many cases they didn't. But I have been published in some very nice magazines. The pay is usually an author's copy, but you keep the copyright to your poem as well. Some do pay, and of course that is what we all would like to get. Out of over 100 published poems, probably closer to 150, I've made maybe $75 dollars total. The most I was ever paid for a single poem was $15. But the magazines are out there, and they publish poems. I could paper a room with rejections, but I'm thrilled to have the published ones I do have! Good luck!

Pendragon.

[TioPepe]

What is wrong with vanity publishing? How is it different from anything else?
poetry.com published a series of my poems, sent me three of the 12 I had submitted on beautifully crafted plaques, sent me a complimentary sweater with what they considered was my best go - and, oh, yes, they did ask for money. The bastards. They asked me to donate 2 dollars to some charity, I don't remember which, if I could. Which I didn't, because I couldn't, but it did not seem to be a problem.
Maybe it's because I write good stuff, not pathetic crap like most people who write.