After my wife wrote a mediocre poem and received a non-cash "reward" from the INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF POETS. They kept bugging her to buy a book with her poem included. I purposely wrote the worst poem possible (please go on their site and look it up — "I Dig the Night"). I too ...
Its like the pyramid scams of the 80's and 90's but the new idea is to convince victims that they have won something, like "you have won a cruise" telescams, they prey on weak... I wrote a poem to just see what would happen. Probably the worst thing I have ever written... And it won? Lol ...
Poetry.com cheated me out of a lot of money when I purchased the 6 book bundle! Then come to find out, it's not even a real book! Several people said their poem was on the first page, and the book I have doesn't even have those poems in it. How does scum get away with this? ...
If I wanted to see my poetry in print all I had to do was send money to poetry.com. Fortunately, I did not fall for this scam and am currently waiting for the final cut, where my poem did not win. But then I wonder if anyone ever does win thiese scams. ...
My husband has put some poetry on poetry.com. He recieved two Editor's Choice Awards for the same poem. My husband is bi-polar and he uses his poetry as an outlet. He feels what he writes is his life. He doesn't deserve to be used like Poetry.com has used him. Well nobody deserves this. I have ...
I should of listend to my inner voice, its to good to be true. But no, i did not listen. Igot excited about this poetry award, spent money ont he supposly membership and award that i never recieved. The money is gone and i feel like a total fool. Somebody needs to do something about these people. ...