www.Poetry.com, Don't fall for this scam Options

[Paradox of Life]

Sorry if this doesn't belong here, but I thought this did concern writing and it'd be better if I categorize it rather than put it in The Lounge. I'd probably get more writers' attention if I posted it here anyway, but feel free to move it if it's really necessary.

Anyway, I almost got scammed by the International Library of Poetry (www.poetry.com) and this is how it happened...

I had found poetry.com a long time ago when someone had sent me their poem they had displayed on there. I decided to pay a visit and ended up entering my poem, thinking, what have I got to lose? It was a few months later that I received mail from them saying that I was selected "semi-finalist" in their contest to winning $10,000 dollars and I could get it published in a book. This book costed $50 plus $25 if I wanted to put my biography on the page opposite of my poem.

Well, of course I was excited (and gullible), but there was a doubt in my mind that this was even real. I would've purchased the book if my dad hadn't told me to check it out online. So I looked online and found out 99.9% of the people that send in their work get accepted. This scam had been broadcasted on ABC's 20/20, other news shows, and several internet websites.

If you've sent in a poem here, you've probably already found out that they want your poems to be 20 lines or shorter (which prevented me from sending in some of my poems). Why? So they can cram in all the poems (6 per page) that they receive/accept.

They tell you, there are 200 poems in the book out of thousands of people that send in their poems, but in reality, you're not special. They are not interested in your poem or your reputation; they are interested in the MONEY you pay to buy the book. EVERYBODY IS IN THIS BOOK!

Go here to sign the petition against this horrible scam.

Thanks to Ravens Rants for saving me 50 bucks.

You can get a VALID poetry source from that site And...

DO NOT FALL FOR THE WWW.POETRY.COM SCAM

Edit// Here are some more scams:

AmericanLiteraryPress.com
famouspoets.com
freecontest.com
friendlypoets.com
noblehousepublishers.co.uk
poetry-contest.com
poetry.com
poem.com
poetryamerica.com
poetrynet.net
poetrynet.org
poets.com
raketheweb.com
watermarkbooks.com

Visit: http://www.poetryscams.com/

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^ Did they tell your friend that if she attended the thing in Washington DC, she might win $10,000? Because I don't think they'll notify you that you have won. Besides, they do that to thousands of people—and they end up wasting their money for nothing.