anyone use poetry.com?

[sixf00t4]

anyone submit anything or ever get anything back? i just submitted 10 of my poems. they have to be 20 lines or less, so that cut down my list

Thanks for the link, never knew about that site.

If you enjoy good poetry, I can highly recommend FictionPress.com. It is brought to ya' from the same people that host my second favorite site on the net, FanFiction.net.

Robert Richmond

[sixf00t4]

thanks for that link Rob. I wouldn't mind a little exposure for my poetry

[Thud]

I wrote something up real quick one night a couple years ago and submitted it to poetry.com out of boredom coupled with brief flash of inspiration.

I'd forgotten about it, then about 2 months later I got a letter from them saying that they were having a book published, and that my poem was a standout. They wanted it for their book. I'd only have to pay them $80 (if I remember correctly, might have been more) to get it published, and for my copy of the book!

Smelled pretty fishy to me. I thought about it for 10 minutes and decided it was a crock of doo.

I do have to admit, however, that the thought of being able to remark offhand "Yeah, my work has been published," kind of attracted me. That's probably what they were counting on.

[jkrohn]

Poetry.com is a HUGE scam. 20/20 have even done specials on them.

http://lists.spack.org/pipermail/wor...02/000352.html
http://www.windpub.com/literary.scams/

Don't buy their crap

Jkrohn

[tgxiii]

I use Poetry.com, but only their rhyming dictionary. I use it when I'm writing songs and inspiration just isn't enough.

http://rhyme.poetry.com/

[adri]

Dido on what everyone said. They would publish the back of a milk carton if you paid them. I submitted some poems to them a year or so ago. If my poem was so "GREAT!!", then why should I pay to publish it, they should be paying me. It's a scam babe, don't bother.

[sixf00t4]

thanks alot for that fictionpress link rob. i submitted a few poems last night and even got some reviews already! that is great.