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iPoetry - Poetry.com

manuscriptx

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Yesterday I decided to enter one of these hokey poetry contests,
some of you lugnuts keep mentioning.

I went to the most logical and simple website - Poetry.com, while there's no restrictions or constrictions regarding poem shape, form, or even substance, the limit is only to what they call " twenty lines ", or a maximum of 60 characters per line.

So I decided on using one of my past poems : iPoetry, the shortest poem I've written that some gave praise to.

The next 'award' is due to be given two weeks from now.

What do you think, do I have a shot? My guess? Nope.
 
What do you think, do I have a shot? My guess? Nope.

I would say, yes. The reason is that poetry.com is a complete con. Their whole business model is based around people submitting poetry, them sending out letters to say, "congratulations, your poem will be published in our next anthology", and then all the gullible people who don't see the scam blindly give their money to see their poem and name in print, crushed somewhere amongst the hundreds of other poems squeezed in there. Then, the next quarter, they start all over again.
 
Mx,

Have you thunk this one through? I remember seeing in one of your posts that you're planning to use your poems in your upcoming novella. If ipoetry is published in any form beforehand, and you include it in the novella, you won't be able to sell First North American Serial Rights to the publisher of the novella. Writers have to be careful with how they handle their intellectual properties.

JohnB
 
intellectual property

I said it before, I don't consider anything I write/post on this or any website as intellectual property. The novella I wanted to write is nothing different from the other poems I post on here, it's a mere display of my writing.

So I have no care if someone steals it, and passes it off as their own.
If anything I'd be flattered.

With the autobiographic novel ( A/N ), that's a differrent story altogether.
I plan on taking any complete and comprehensive measures of any sort regarding literature protection available.

That is, as I've said, presuming an agent or publisher is interested in learning more about it and wanting to put it on the marketplace.

Once I'm presented with a $20,000 - $70,000 advance contract with guarantees and incentives, then the discussion can go from there.

Why do I need that much in an initial advance based on less than 15% of the total text saved on compac disc? The money will give me time to fully develop it like an R&D project. A few nuances that I consider intellectual property.
 
It's not luck, it's skill.

I like to imagine some agent or publisher wants to recruit good talent, not just a bunch of James Frey clones looking to score big on fake stories.
 
I like to imagine some agent or publisher wants to recruit good talent, not just a bunch of James Frey clones looking to score big on fake stories.

Let's face it: it takes both luck and skill. I wish you luck on finding the skill.
 
Say that to James Frey.....

....and he would laugh in your face.

( deservedly so ) Save the merit talk for someone else.

- thanks very much
 
But...you suck. He's stating an otherwise very astutue observation which subsequently leads to an otherwise very witty remark. And that in itself is quite true as well. Now then, good sir...

...I shall return to my tea.
 
iPoem - Poetry.com contest update

Yesterday, I recieved a mailing notification ( snail mail not e-mail ) that my poem has been read and selected to be among the semi-finalists.

Dear Manuscript ( not my real name ),

After carefully reading and discussing your poem, our Selection Committee has certified your poem as a semi-finalist in our International Open Poetry Contest. Your poem will automatically be entered into the final competition held in July 2007. As a semi-finalist, you now have an excellent chance of winning one of 104 cash or gift prizes---including the $1,000 Grand Prize. You may even win the $10,000 Annual Grand Prize.
______________________________________________________________


Congradulations to me. But the funny part of all this is what most of you know as " iPoem " I mistakenly entered under the wrong title.

If you search through Writer's Showcase, you see a portion of material from the Novella 2007 titled " Anatomy Of A Thunderstorm " which is the title they assume this poem is.

I originally hoped to shape the content of "Anatomy Of A Thunderstorm" into the website's framing guidlines but did not find a way to fit it. So that's when I decided to use the content of " iPoem " forgetting to change the title at the top of the website's entry page.

Although the mailing notification allows for me to make any changes I want, I decided to leave it as is. Somehow or another maybe it will make its way past each evaluation and win the $1,000 or $10,000 prize.

Makes for an interesting situation.
 
Wait, so "iPoetry," is the actual poem, and "Anatomy of a Thunderstorm," is the title? I went to look at the former and see why it may have done well, though. iPoetry was good, and the title of the latter seems to fit with the building tension in emotion. That's pretty fucking ironic, but it works. Anyhow, congratulations, but didn't someone mention it being a scam in your other post?
 
didn't someone mention it being a scam in your other post?

Yes, me. Pretty much everyone becomes a semi-finalist. And then they hound you with mail after mail, email after email, to make sure you don't miss your chance to buy their latest seasonal book with your poem in print, somewhere amongst all the other semi-finalists.
 
I said it was a hokey contest.

The whole point is that I entered one of these hokey contests as I told you people from the outset. Of course I don't expect to win anything from a scam operation anymore than I expected the poem to be picked even if it were a legit contest.
 
Then...why would you mention being selected as semi-finalist if you knew this? You're tripping over your own feet, man. Next thing you know you'll be waddling away like a penguin, if you don't keep your head up.
 
Listen to what I say you 'sevenwriting' idiot.

Go back and read the first initial message of this thread, I said I finally decided to enter a poem in one these hokey contests you idiots keep mentioning.

Up until then I never cared to. I'm not surprised at all that its a scam.
JohnB Idiot is correct, although I'm not bombarded with mailing requests to subscribe to their junk, I did get a few.

The one thing that tipped it off is at the same time they kept stressing how free, free, and free it all was, somewhere along the line they mention publishing the poem and requesting a ( what they call ) typesetting fee.

I wrote back saying you have my permission to supposedly publish it, but as far as the fee goes, please deduct it from any winnings I do get, otherwise I choose not to have it published.

I also say that in any sweepstakes mailings as well that ask for processing fees and shipping and handling of my supposed mystery winning check.

If it's all a scam, no money to be lost on my part.

( especially since I'm still unemployed )
 
Sweet! You can make title responses: CRY MORE

Don't put me in the group that mentioned these contests, thanks. You know, seeing as I didn't.

As for you knowing it was a "hokey," contest, why waste our time putting a post up stating that you were selected as a semi-finalist if you knew this to begin with. Did you want to once again stroke your own ego since no one else seems to want to do it for you? Your reasoning is making as much sense as the majority of your poems now, bud. I can't say that's a compliment, either, so don't take it as one (as you seem to do--a lot).
 
contest scams

I'm sure if I never heard back from any hokey contest, wether it's a scam or not - that's simply one more incentive for you idiots to criticize my material.

I see no other screwball has entered this thread defending the same poetry contests they once mentioned previously. Leads me to ask the question, why? If the one I entered was fake to begin with, they could have done a service by mentioning that I would be surely named a semi-finalist.
 
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