poetry.com Reviews

==Poetry.com== I don't usually review this sort of thing, but since i had a look, I figured I'd have a go. The first thing I noticed when I looked at this site was the incredibly poor layout, it looks like the idea behind designing the site was to ram as much in as possible. the home page definately didn't make me want to stay ...  Read the complete review

The idea of winning some serious money could quite easily tempt you into entering one of the many competitions run by Poetry.com. The competitions are legitimate and it is possible to win the prizes although it appears that your chances are much improved if you live on the other side of the pond. I first got interested in the site due ...  Read the complete review

As we all know, there's no such thing as a free lunch. And don't forget your mother's favourite, 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.' So if someone told you that you could win $10,000 for writing a poem, you'd be a little skeptical. And rightly so. Poetry.com is a vanity publishers. There, I've said it. And how do I ...  Read the complete review

THE USE OF POETRY AS A DEVELOPING AND COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE TO CONVEY YOUR THOUGHTS AND FFELINGS TO OTHER PEOPLE. THE PHRASE AND RHYME SCHEME IS DETERMINED BY THE WRITER. THE INPUT AND BACKGROUND OF THE POEM DEPENDS ON THE EXPERIENCES OF EACH INDIVIDUAL. THE EMOTIONAL IMPACT OF THE POEM DRAWS THE READER INTO THE WRITER'S MIND AND PUSHES BOTH ...  Read the complete review

Note: The original domain www.poetry.com, which was once a scam site, has been aquired by Lulu Poetry, which is a Publish on Demand site, and is no longer the scam site that the previous owners of the domain were running. This review covers the old site. Recently someone on a newsgroup said that they had been chosen to be a ...  Read the complete review

Poetry.com is a well known scam site, I'm not going to waffle on too much about the site contents and what they offer etc. because it is simply that. A scam. If you visit you'll be hit by the promise of a $1000 poetry contest which is held at various periods throughout the year and one grand yearly prize of $10,000 for the best poem ...  Read the complete review

It seems like the unpublished poets dream: a site that not only allows you to display your work, but to enter competitions, check out what the competition's like and maybe even get a publisher offering you a lovely book deal. Yes, when I clocked Poetry.coms ad flashing away at the top of the screen as I went to my favourite guitar website, I ...  Read the complete review

After submitting several poems to the site I decided to do an investigation on my own to see why I had been chosen like everyone else I knew as a semi-finalist. It turns out the company is not only a fraud, but what in the literary world is said to be a "Vanity" Press. Vanity presses feast off the desire to want to be known, ...  Read the complete review

I first discovered this site a few months ago, when a friend of mine sent me details of a poetry competition they were running. Knowing my love of poetry, he sent me the URL, and I have often visited the site since. Although it is basically an American site, it is by no means solely for American use. There are many features on the site, ...  Read the complete review

Poetry.com is a perfect site for anyone who loves writing, reading poetry. The site features over 4.6 million poets. You can search poems for whatever occasion that you feel like. The results are really good and there is some really quality pieces of poetry to be found. If you fancy yourself as a poet you can enter the poetry ...  Read the complete review

Let me start by saying that poetry.com are running a scam. Plain and simple. Quite honestly I don’t know that I should say much more but I will, here goes. Poetry.com, along with poets.com, is the internet face of an organisation called “The International Library of Poetry” , which is associated with ...  Read the complete review

I discovered poetry.com about three months ago, back in June of 2001. I wrote a poem as a far from hopeful attempt at the big cash prize up for grabs! poetry.com is an american site that offers you the chance to subit your poetry free of charge and gain copywrite on it. You can also read poetry submitted by other poets from around the globe. ...  Read the complete review

I like to write poems and such in my own time, I write lyrics as well as actual songs and poetry. In a way it helps me deal with life problems. If I ever get down or anything, then I will write a poem, or a song, and I can express what I feel. By doing this it sometimes helps me to really understand what I am feeling, it has always been something ...  Read the complete review

This is another of those sites that offers fame and fortune to frustrated writers. All you have to do is to pay a fee to enter your poetry into a competition. If you do this you will get lots of praise. They will shower you with flattery and you will really believe that at last your poetic genius has been recognised.Or will you? Once ...  Read the complete review

I have just found a poetry contest by accident while I was surfing the web, so I entered it this morning. Anybody can enter this competition by submitting an original poem of twenty lines or fewer on any subject or in any style, any body who enters this competition will receive a response within seven weeks. The address of this contest is ...  Read the complete review

If you don't believe me, put them to the test. Make up the crappiest poem you can, get a two year old to write it, send them your shopping list, or a christmas card from your great aunt, whatever you send them, will become a semi-finalist and be published in one of their expensive anthologies. If you want to have your poetry published, ...  Read the complete review

Okay go to a search engine and type in the words poetry and scam... see what you get! That's exactly what I did when I supposedly 'won' a place in their latest competition. After the initial delight that my work had been recognised I read on to find that my work would be in print and I could 'purchase' a copy of the book for ...  Read the complete review

Poetry.com is one of the biggest scams going. Send then a poem (free to enter!) it must be less than 20 lines, so that they can squeeze the larget amount of poems possible into an anthology costing around £60, that they hope the many contributors will buy, just to see a copy of their work in print! Poets are told that all poems may be entered ...  Read the complete review

Poetry.com is a competition site, where you write a poem (20 lines or fewer) on any subject/style. Each month there is a grand winner who receives about £750. There are lots of other smaller prizes as well. There is also an annual prize of about £7,500 for the best poem that year. You also get a chance of being ...  Read the complete review

I enjoyed seeing a poem i had just made up in print and who knows i may win a competition!! there was prize money involved after all. Visit this site if you want to check if anyone you know has written a poem!! A bit of poetry on the net couldn't do anyone a lot of harm and getting people to be creative in front of a keyboard and ...  Read the complete review