Comments on: Poetry.com is a Scam Site?

By: joyce tyler

joyce tyler — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:26:33 +0000

I to have fell victim and and concerned with receiving my poems that I have wrote to these people for the last 9 years. Can you please help me find the answer to whom I may call and chew out for that. This is so unfair to everyone envolved in this and I think we should stand together and give them one back

By: Patricia

Patricia — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:14:32 +0000

how can i get my poems I wrote and entrusted these people with. please let me know. I understand that this to many of us is an example of nasty, greedy behavior etc. etc… so can anyone please tell me how to retrieve those “award winning poems” away and back to where they are from.
thank you.

By: Amber

Amber — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:43:07 +0000

I used to think it was a real deal so I sent in a lot of my poetry. But then they were all getting “published” but yet they never appeared in any of the books. Only one poem was placed in a book and that was because I bought that book. Now that I want to find the poem for personal reasons, I can’t find the website. It seems Lulu has that URL. Did they go under or something?

By: M.T Al-Mansouri

M.T Al-Mansouri — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:22:03 +0000

Poetry.com is not Scam, yet it is a real. They publish articles after supervising them in books, online as well as in CDs.

By: Lucky

Lucky — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:41:02 +0000

I have a poetry site called http://www.suckypoems.com and for a while I was getting spammed with their crap. To top it off they were advertising with adwords which showed up on my adsense. I actually contributed some a poem which was rejected. If you visit my site, you’ll understand why. I guess they try and stay at least a little real.

By: chinny

chinny — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:19:20 +0000

wow. poetry.com has been around for many years now… i remember the time when i received my mail from them saying the same things that you just said, about how my poem’s good enough etc. etc. i wanted to buy the book but i couldn’t afford it but my grandma contributed some cash for me to get it…but i never was able to… good thing though. =)

chinnys last blog post..do not over cook.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:25:00 +0000

Hi, I stumbled across your post and I have to say that I too was a victim of poetry.com. What a joke they are sending me a letter to say my poetry was the best they’ve ever read. Please, and of course the small print stated about the purchase of a book with my poem in it. I didn’t pay for the book, and years later I feel that it’s a shame that sites like that give hope to writers when really all they are doing is wasting their time.

Amanda

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:19:00 +0000

"One of my good friends submitted his "suppose-to-be-copyrighted" poem to poetry.com and of course, he never won the contest but soon after, he saw the same exact poem published in a Hallmark card."

Hmmmm, seems like an awfully funny coincidence that he saw that. Your friend's poem was SO GOOD that an international corporation had to plagiarize it. You see, Hallmark do not have any good ideas of their own. They have to prey on nobody poets and are willing to commit crimes to do so.

Does this not strike you as the least bit peculiar?

As to the article, there's no money in poetry anyway. It's a mug's game.