I write a lot of poetry to myself when I am down or angry and very rarely when I am happy. When I was still in school I belonged to a site that sent grant infor or essay contests for tuition stuff. I had researched the site through the school and it was legit...but one fo the contests received in my email was for poetry.com. I went there (this was some time ago) and submitted one of my poems..and over te school year wrote a few more. I received several letters saying that I was a semi-finalist blah blah blah but being that I could barely afford school them asking me for money got me thinking...so one dy I started researching the company and found that poetry.com is a SCAM :( I bring this up today because I still get a crapton of emails from them and I wondered how many people actually send them money!
here is a list I found of other SCAMs that deal with Poetry and writing
Here's a list of scammers.
Poetry.com
FamousPoets.com
aftrk.com/e/Poetry
International Society Of Poets
International Library Of Poetry
National Library Of Poetry
The Poetry Guild
National Society Of Poets
www.poetry-contest.com
Iliad Press (Cader Publishing)
The American Poets Society www.poetryamerica.com
Noble House Publishers
https://www.noblehousepublishers.co.uk Publishers Clearing House
Water Mark Press
The Poem Place
Hollywood's Famous Poets Society
Pen Pushers Publications
Poets' Guild
as the saying goes if it sounds to good to be true it probably is...
On another note...DUDE! My sister got married and I wasnt there..that happens when your phone gets shut off due to people running up the bill :( oh well I'm gonna try and see if I can make it home for when her kid is born at least...I have a family that is spread all over the place and none of us talk all that much..guess I should start talkin to some of them before they all Die...er ok that sounded bad, but it seems that I have family memebers droppin like flys and I would like to know at least my sister(half sister) better than I already do since she is my only blood sibling...