Does this mean something?

[your gay]

recently i recieved an email from poetry.com and they said my poem had been selected among 200 others from the thousands they get and its gonna be in a book with other ones as the best of 2004. i had been getting real mail about this contest crap like second round, third round and shit and didnt even really read it. now they say i can win money and dotn even have to buy the book if i submit another poem for the final judging. sounds kinda tight, what do u guys think.

[Stoic]

why not?

[Amnesia]

Yeah why not?

[pretty crack]

yes, your so wierd

[SoundSilence]

poetry.com lol my bro usta get those all the time...
they dont give u shit, everytime u submit a poem u get that fuckin mail... i wouldnt count on you getting shit.. but u can try...if i remember correctly my bro sent in a poem an never heard from them again... but he kept getting mail bout him advancing in the rounds lmao

[KaZe]

i doubt your work is copywrited, so i believe they can bite it. secondly, its a scam. ignore it.

[Desmon Deville]

i've dealt with these people before. honestly you can get a poem published in an honest book with an actual ISBN # and everything through them but all the things about winning money and everything is crap... but if you're happy about having a poem published in a book full of amatuer poets then do it, just don't fall for the trips to washington or anything else like that.

[ViGiL]

agreeing with Kaze.

[Stoic]

yea on second thought... looks like Kaze had got the vote... but wouldnt a scam like this get blown up?

[KaZe]

http://www.eliteskills.com/writing_s...y.com.scam.php

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.writersweekly.com/warnings/poetry.html
http://www.poetism.com/scams.htm

dare i say "ignore it," again?

[optikaL`]

Poetry sucks.

[chris]

I get those emails and I dont even write poems .

what im trying to say is. that shit is basiclly a spam

[n.e.m.e.s.i.s.]

same shit happened to me last year. got all the way to the "finals". they sent me a letter sayiing they'd publish my poem in a book, if i bought a bunch of copys of the book and a ticket to florida for some ceremony shit. no thanks.