Congratulations of sorts are in order, methinks.

[Flippy_D]

Yipee skippy, aren't I the poetic wench around here.

Poetry.com will be publishing one of my poems. Unfortunately it's $50 to buy the book, with a $10 deposit. So screw that. Blasted scammers.

Anyway, I'm willing to bet the book is incredibly pretentious and full of 'artistic' people who love talking about themselves and souls and trying to be 'meaningful', and we of course know that I'm obviously nothing like that.

Anyhoo, although with a cynical eye it's no great acheivement, I thought I might as well let y'all know. I could win $1000 or even $10,000 (highly unlikely), which would be pretty damn cool, even if I would only get £560 and £5,600.

(£1 = $1.82 at the moment).

[BOYD1981]

my dad knows somebody that's always paying £15 to have his poems published in books, and they're all crap

[DragonRose]

$50???  I wouldn't pay that much Canadian for a hardcover book!

I had a poem published in a book like that, from the National Poetry Assoication or something.  24 line limit, the "winner" had a 36 line poem. Boo.

But major congrats, Flippy.

[Darth Mandarb]

Hey man, published is published and that's a good thing!

I'm suprised they'd make one of their published poets actually buy the book ... you'd think they could give you a copy.  Oh well.

Still, congrats!

Did they tell you that you can't (now) freely publish the poem that they're using?  Or can you post it here for us?

~ d

[MrColossal]

http://poetry.com/Publications/display.asp?ID=P5958544&BN=999&PN=1

darth: that's how they make their money... Flippy, be prepared to get a TON of email from them asking you to send them money because you're poem got picked for the top prize in something something something quick send us money now! then go to this banquet! you may have already won!

[Flippy_D]

Ah, crap. Thanks for the heads up, Eric.

Darth: I dunno, I'll read the small print. But it's still my Copyright, not theirs, that much I know. I haven't yet given them permission to publish.

Here is the one I submitted... I've posted it once already somewhere here.

Concerns.

A noose of hot silk,
a dagger of cold cream,
chocolate poison.

But were you to have little,
sly in suburbia,
how scripts may have changed.

And drugs and drink and sex and violence and we love you Woodstock!

Maybe this was better.

Indulgance is a warm path to death,
but it's scent is misguiding: beguiling and fresh,
and how pretty the butterflies are off the road.

You. Wealth and luxury.
Death, such an irony. Was it that you were not satisfied?
Surely not.

Yet, a troubled thing, brittle cling on reality. And you may leave
and wander to the butterflies, off the path.

[LGM]

I've made it twice.. Big whoopee.. It's all a scam

[BruisedWeasel]

I've been 'published' thrice by them, and for my latest entry, offered a chance to purchase a tape containing an oral reading of my poem and like 13 others. It makes me pretty sad that such things are done, this building up hopes. I almost did order the tape, but I've no desire to hear someone else read my poem.

I wonder if it's possible to send in a poem and *not* get in the big book...

[shbaz]

Scam. My friend's mom was so impressed that he was published that she bought the book (3 years ago). I've been published four times.

In the book, the poems ranged from very good to ridiculously horrible.

Later, I was published by Noble House (twice) which was weird because I never sent anything to them, and my friend was never e-mailed by them. It was the same scam with a nicer book, where each poet had a full page for the poem. In the poetry.com book there were 15 per page, depending on how long the poems were.

[Peter Thomas]

Congratulations!!

Geez, sounds like there's a lot of negative feedback here for someone who can write a damn good poem.

Whether there's a scam involved or not shouldn't effect your perception of the quality of the poem, and I really like it. Of course, you must BEWARE the pitfalls of poetry.com and be cautious not to get sucked in too deep, but at the same time, you have my hugest congratulations.  8)

[DGMacphee]

Peter Thomas is right -- We should offer our congratulations to Flippy.

Congratulations on getting scammed! THREE CHEERS FOR FLIPPY!

[shbaz in teh library]

Congratulations!!

Geez, sounds like there's a lot of negative feedback here for someone who can write a damn good poem.

WTF - the "negative feedback" is about the scam, not Flippy's poem.

[Flippy_D]

Congratulations on getting scammed! THREE CHEERS FOR FLIPPY!

Don't you know it.

I shall persue this no further. Thanks for all the advice, I was aware of it slightly, but I didn't know it was quite that bad. I gots better things to do, like gargle lemonade.

[Peter Thomas]

the "negative feedback" is about the scam, not Flippy's poem.

Point taken.

I interpreted it as everyone bagging Flippy for being so 'stupid' to 'fall for' this scam.

[Andail]

Actually, I really enjoyed the poem.

I was gonna make a joke about me loving it so much I'd like to publish it somewhere for but a little fee, but then the fact that I enjoyed the poem would sort of get lost.

And the joke wouldn't have been funny anyway.

[shbaz]

I interpreted it as everyone bagging Flippy for being so 'stupid' to 'fall for' this scam.

I don't mean to make fun of you or anything, but in that case, I was six times dumber for falling for the same scam four times and another twice.  

... Although I never bought the books.