Bookbat 98

About your poetry.com comment

Bookbat said on my talk page:

I think I know what you were refering to in your comment. If I could find the source of it, would you be interested to adding what you said to the main page? Bookbat_98 22:23, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Cruelty of Poetry.Com

If I understand, Bookbat is referring to the following from the Talk page:

The International Library of Poetry is a scam very close to the edge of the law. They may have edged over the line in some cases. Not quite a vanity publisher, they do not ask for money to publish a poem (at least not in the first letter) but charge an exorbitant price ($50) for shoddy copies of compilations of submitted poems. They do, however, charge to include a small blurb about the poem and/or the victim - I mean, Poet. There follows an invitation to a conference (cost around $600 per person, not including food & lodging) to read your poem and accept your award (which I suspect you will never see if you don't go.)

It is apparently impossible to get a rejection. Not only was my deliberately bad poem Storms accepted as a semi-finalist, I have found examples on the internet of absolutely ridiculous poems, including complete gibberish, that also received this high award. An entire fourth grade class wrote and submitted poems; all were accepted. Dave Barry printed his hilariously bad-but accepted poem in his column.

While I was researching this, I did not keep info on sources. That's why this is on Talk page.

• wcf Facts are stubborn. Comments? 06:58, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

To respond, yes, I have no problem with the supportable part being added to the main page. See my note in italics at the end of my comments.

wcf Facts are stubborn. Comments? 18:25, 23 May 2007 (UTC)