Article: The Poetry Contest That Hunts For Desperate Writers

The Poetry Contest That Hunts For Desperate Writers

Many of you have likely seen the following contest ?Free Amateur Poetry Contest $10,000 grand prize, Enter Now!?, and you have most likely sent off your poem and received a letter back stating that your poem will be published. You are just one of the many who have become the prey of poetry.com.



I have had first hand experience with them. In 2000 I sent one of my poems ?Angel in Heaven? to Poetry.com contest and received their notification that I would be published in an anthology to be released that year. To date that poem still has not been published in their anthology, because I refuse to purchase the book.



A Google search for poetry.com will pull up several warnings about the company. They have now gained a national reputation for preying upon unsuspecting ...
 

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