I need some information about Poetry.com

[Danielle_B]

Hi. I was just wondering if anyone knew anything about The American Poets Society. Are they anything like poetry.com becuase I submitted two poems to them and they wanted to publish them both, which was a shocker to me, they wernt that good. Just wondering.
Danielle

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[romac]

I don’t know anything about the organisation, but there are two things to bear in mind.

First, are they wanting you to pay for publication? If so, forget it. Reputable publications publish your poems for free, and some (the ones who can afford it) even pay for them.
Second, reputable publishing groups will send you a free copy of the volume in which your poem is published. The dodgy ones give you the choice of paying for a copy. If that’s the case, tell them where to go.

Rob

[tom swann]

I posted a poem to poetry.com. It went something like this:

My Poem: You Slimy Pricks Can Get F@#KED

If you send me a letter
asking whether you could
pay me for this
then I'll know that
you're full of it.


I got a letter a few weeks later saying that they'd like to put it in an Anthology, with the poem itself printed on the form.

Ha! Automated critique, aka Spam machine.

[MEHope]

From the Blurbs of Wisdom:

Poetry.com:

[COLOR=red]@[/COLOR]  Poetry.com One More Time (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9951)

Just in Case You Still Doubt Poetry.Com is a Scam (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9945)

Continuation of Donner's 'Poetry.com is a Scam' (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9948)

I Need Some Information about Poetry.com (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9885)

[HowardM2]

It's difficult to get much information from the American Poets Society (http://www.poetryamerica.com/aboutaps.php) webpage itself. It talks about contests and prizes but doesn't give any specific information or details I could locate. That seems more than a little suspicious to me; legitimate contests provide full information or at least tell you how you can get such information. And if you look at the quality of the "Poem of the Day," you can only wonder. I'd suggest giving it a pass.


Howard

[Andrea345]

Originally posted by HowardM2
And if you look at the quality of the "Poem of the Day,"

Howard

aaack! Howard, you posted a hyperlink. I read the Poem of the Day. My bleeding eyeballs are your fault.


[SIZE=1]Don't ever click that icky link again Andrea. Bad girl. No, you really don't want to read the Pome of the Day.

just not fair... take advantage of the curious that way. This reaction must be some sort of evolutionary selection thang going on. I wouldn't be able to survive in a world of Pomes of the Day.[/SIZE]

[KevinI]

People don't learn from others mistakes. My curiousity piqued by Andrea's posting I followed that beastly link despite the clear warning not to go in there ... Even Hallmark do better than the hackneyed, cliched, badly rhyming, poorly metred stuff I was exposed to. I am going for counselling. I'll be okay. In a year or so.

[woodflies]

Interesting, they atarted over 2 1/2 years ago and look at all those sponsors they have!

Andrea, Wixx, et al.:

Naw, naw, naw...you've got it *all* wrong. The "Poem of the Day" is just a random pick. The *really good stuff* is under the "Contest Winners" link--you should look in there.

Really.

I wouldn't lie to you.

Honestly now.

Just peek agin (at least, that's how it's spelled there).

[Andrea345]

Originally posted by woodflies
Interesting, they atarted over 2 1/2 years ago and look at all those sponsors they have!

Andrea, Wixx, et al.:

Naw, naw, naw...you've got it *all* wrong. The "Poem of the Day" is just a random pick. The *really good stuff* is under the "Contest Winners" link--you should look in there.

Really.

I wouldn't lie to you.

Honestly now.

Just peek agin (at least, that's how it's spelled there).

Yeah, like my eyeballs have healed or sumthin'. If I barely survived the Pome of the Day, Weiners might just cause some sort of other body part to hemorrhage - agin. It won't be my cigarette smoking which puts me in the urn on the mantle next to Aunt Lila, it'll be the "Contest Weiners."

-a
"born day before yesterday"

[KevinI]

Scott, I trusted you, you being such a nice guy and all, and I got exposed to this:

I can't wait to sleep at night.
to dream that everything is alright.
In my dreams my prince charming always rescues me,
and the real me is what my friends see.
In my dreams, I fly away
to a place I would love to stay.
A place with grass so green,
and the prettiest blue sky I have ever seen.
But it seems,
that in the middle of my dreams,
just when I feel I couldn't make another mistake,
lonley and sad I awake.
Awake to another miserable day
where I am forced to laugh and play.
A day so lonely and so long,
when everything seems to go wrong.
With no one to run to
and no one to break through,
through the wall built around my emotions
that is holding back enough tears to fill an ocean
Thats why I can't wait to sleep at night,
so that everything will be alright.

Followed swiftly by this:

I thought today of a place
Where the trees are tall
And oh so colorful in the fall
Where friends may come
And friends may go
This place is where my best friend lives
And he's been that because he gives.
We've been friends for many years,
We've said our peace and shed some tears,
And comforted each others fears.
When I feel sad and all alone
I know that I can pick up the phone,
We'll talk for hours at a time
Until he knows that I'll be fine.
I know that I will live for years
Knowing that he always hears,
When I'm in need of a friend
To help me around another bend.

Now I'm going to make you all suffer with me ...

[woodflies]

I'm willing to supply the gun
For poet number one.
And if he doesn't mind her face,
He can take the next poet to that selfsame place
So she can be his friend
Until the very end.

Oh the depths to which we stoop
When reading such drivel and poop--
We think we're so superior
To that which comes from their posterior!

Alright, cheap shot at their expense, but I just couldn't help myself. I swear on my mother's grave, my 10 year old students write better stuff than this (usually).

So Danielle, I guess what we're saying is that you shouldn't be too surprised at what they accepted. And definitely don't pay for anything.