<p>recently I received notification that I was selected to attend the poetry.com International Society of Poets' Summer Convention and Symposium for my submitted poem. Does anyone know anything about it. Is this for real/at all prestigious, or just a hoax. Does everyone in poetry.com get invited/given an award?</p>
<p>I don't know about the symposium specifically, but poetry.com in general is a big scam. They accept every poem sent to them and "publish" them in a collection where there are lots of poems to a page in tiny font and then charge you $50 to buy it. Don't get involved with them!</p>
<p>poetry.com is a SCAM!!!!!</p>
<p>I received the same 'invitation' a while ago; it's nonesense.</p>
<p>yea poetry.com is a complete scam</p>
<p>yep a scam. i did it too...</p>
<p>yeah i thought i was special for couple of months
they said that i recieved a silver cup or something
and then i realised it was a hoax when they kept on sending me mails to make me buy that book with MY poem in it.
And then they tried to make me buy that silver cup which i supposedly won.. (for $69.95 or something) and they said my name will be INSCRIBED on it.. yes.. whatever...</p>
<p>Biiiig scam. I got a letter at least 3 times last year. All they want is your money. Its a scam.</p>
<p>It might be fun if you have the money, but I believe everyone gets the invitation.</p>
<p>Complete scam. Sorry to say it, but it is.</p>
<p>Scam. My theology teacher sophomore year was a complete idiot (sad, but true...she thought that "there are" could be contracted to "ther're") and went on and on about how she got her poem published at poetry.com. Needless to say, her poem was the most worthless piece of drivel ever. She paid for the book, too.</p>
<p>Yep, it's a scam. I got the same thing.</p>
<p>I think everyone gets the letter. And the ones who give the money end up moving foward, but just because they sent in money, not because there poem may have or may not have been good.</p>
<p>We get the idea, I think. But why do the responses have to be so harsh?</p>