I also submitted a poem for the poetry contest online. I was nominated for one of my poems I wrote and was sent "the invitation letter" for the convention in Las Vegas. Prior to that letter I received the letter about purchasing "the book". I had a strong feeling this was a scam ...
Basically I think they should be SHUT DOWN! Like I said I've been dealing with them for over twenty years. Now i've been keeping a file. I have won every paper award they have, I thought, when I complained to them, they gave me a new award, I am the 2007 Poetry Ambassador, (now that's cute) when I ...
After submitting a poem to Poetry.com, I began receving email and paper mail telling me that my poem was a semi-finalist in the site's big poetry contest. Would I agree to have my poem published in a book? Would I like to buy a special coffee-table edition of the book for just fifty dollars? Being ...
I put a poem that i wrote for my husband in the poetry.com contest. The sent me a letter stating i was a semi finalist and that they wanted to use my poem in a book. I purchased a copy of this book and even provided extra for my own about me page in the book. The total cost was 79.95 the bank ...
For years I finally beleived in a so called honest, poetry company that offered big things, by preying on many innocent victoms (such as myself) who gave their heartfelt poetry words to "Poetry.com" then stepping up to "International Society of Poets"as they would have you ...
The company and internet names above are all one corporation working together to prey on us (you and me) to prey on our poetic dreams of being discovered. They send letters praising your work, claiming youve been chossen as a semi finalist in their contest and you need not pay any money BUT they ...