I sent poems into poetry.com, but did not send any money to them. I already was ripped off by American Poets Society which is another scam in Baltimore, Maryland. I believe the two are in connection with one another. There's no way to get ahold of them whether its email, phone, or letters. So this ...
From SIX letters DEMANDING either a REFUND or my OWN work be sent back to me. I kind of knew from the get-go that this seemed shady, but I should have known or thought better then. I like their come-on tag line..."YOU'VE BEEN INVITED TO A CONVENTION"... BUT at MY COST? Invitations are ...
My daughter entered her poem on-line and was happy and excited to recieve notification that her poem was selected to appear in the next poetry book release (not yet titled). However, the limited her poem and cut it off after a specific number of lines stating "there was a character ...
Poetry.com is a huge ripoff. They made me believe that my poem was going to be published in some "Internal Portraits" book. Aparantly from reading other reports, this book does not, and will not ever, exist. I sent my poem to the website and was then happy to receive the papers saying ...
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. ...
What is this world coming to? Children and young adults have to fear expressing their emotions and being used. When my grandmother told me that she had submitted my poem to a poetry contest, I never thought anything of it. I didn't think that I could ever be good enough to be published, but when ...