Hi I'am a 12 year old and I'm really talented when it comes to poetry. It pops right into my head. I saw an add on a website about the the Summer COnvention where the Grand Prize was worth 20,000 dollars. I entered a really good poem. I got a letter in the mail in a about 2 3 weeks. It told me i ...
I was sent a letter in response to my poems by Poetry.com. I only entered it hoping to win money for my baby to afford things for it, and to have my poetry supposedly good enough to be published in a poetry book be published. I'm 18 and I suppose pouring my feelings into a poem made me very nieve. ...
They do this to everyone... Tell everyone they are going to publish their poetry in their anthologies and charge them money for the book, information on them, cd, tell them they're nominated for 'poet of the year' and then charge them alot of money for that ripoff convention. Of course it's a ...
I got the same build up about my poems all my friends did. Each of us thought we had accomplished something worthwhile. I ordered two books, supposidly with my name and poems in them. I never received any books. I called poetry.com and they admitted receiving payment for one book. However they ...
I entered two poems to poetry.com only to enter the contest and when they said that they wanted to submit my poems in their book I was excited. I told everyone. I showed the letter to all my co-workers. Then I had a funny feeling when they wanted me to pay $59.95 for a copy. I couldn't afford that ...
I, too, had two poems "published" and one "recorded." On may 24, a letter was sent to me informing me on my nomination for poet of the year. I actually was not aware of the letter until 3 days ago. I read it, and got excited because nothing like that had ever happened to me. It ...