Poetry.com puts EVERYONE on the first page
A couple years ago I wrote a poem, which I ended up submitting to Poetry.com, who asked to publish it in their book, and to my surprise it ended up on PAGE 1! (but so did everyone else's)
Well, actually, in MY copy, my Bio and Poem ("The Siren's Call") are on the first two facing pages in the book Invoking the Muse, copyright 2004, International Library of Poetry. What an awesome feeling to be NUMBER ONE! =)
... That is, until I was searching Google for an exact publish date, and found that everyone else who mentioned their poem published in that book also said THEIR poem was the first one in the book!? On top of that, I searched my copy to find out what page theirs was on, and NONE of their poems are in my copy at all!
Personally, it doesn't matter all that much to me. I have my copy to show family and friends, and so to me (and them) it looks like *I* am on page 1! I'm sure that's what Poetry.com had in mind..... a very nice gesture of making sure we each got a copy with our own poem on page 1.
However, it might not be all that great for other, more professional poets.... who point to that book as recognition for their poem, which might be only listed in the authors single copy and in no other copies anywhere. Certainly I was not exposed to the poetry of these other authors who claim to be on page 1.. and indeed aren't found on any of my pages.
Here are a few links to other authors claiming to be page 1:
Wayne Visser: Poets Must Be
Solangala: Writing
Patrice Lauren: The Fog In My Soul
Hector Alvarez-Trujillo: Veneration at the Moment Of Being
Lainee: Life
Elzbieta Kazmierczak: Biopsy
Patrick J. Krawczynski: There Standing
.... I'll stop there. You get the idea.
Again, let me repeat that personally, I'm more happy to see my own poem on page 1 in my own book only, so I say GOOD FOR POETRY.COM!
But it would have been nicer to have my poem in other copies on at least some page, rather than probably not in any other book. :(
Well, actually, in MY copy, my Bio and Poem ("The Siren's Call") are on the first two facing pages in the book Invoking the Muse, copyright 2004, International Library of Poetry. What an awesome feeling to be NUMBER ONE! =)
... That is, until I was searching Google for an exact publish date, and found that everyone else who mentioned their poem published in that book also said THEIR poem was the first one in the book!? On top of that, I searched my copy to find out what page theirs was on, and NONE of their poems are in my copy at all!
Personally, it doesn't matter all that much to me. I have my copy to show family and friends, and so to me (and them) it looks like *I* am on page 1! I'm sure that's what Poetry.com had in mind..... a very nice gesture of making sure we each got a copy with our own poem on page 1.
However, it might not be all that great for other, more professional poets.... who point to that book as recognition for their poem, which might be only listed in the authors single copy and in no other copies anywhere. Certainly I was not exposed to the poetry of these other authors who claim to be on page 1.. and indeed aren't found on any of my pages.
Here are a few links to other authors claiming to be page 1:
Wayne Visser: Poets Must Be
Solangala: Writing
Patrice Lauren: The Fog In My Soul
Hector Alvarez-Trujillo: Veneration at the Moment Of Being
Lainee: Life
Elzbieta Kazmierczak: Biopsy
Patrick J. Krawczynski: There Standing
.... I'll stop there. You get the idea.
Again, let me repeat that personally, I'm more happy to see my own poem on page 1 in my own book only, so I say GOOD FOR POETRY.COM!
But it would have been nicer to have my poem in other copies on at least some page, rather than probably not in any other book. :(
posted by rock808 at 12/27/2005 02:33:00 AM
2 Comments:
Interesting. I didn't know that.
Wayne Visser
For sure Poetry.com and the other similar companies they run are scams. If you look at zolaenterprises.com under alerts there is a ton of them
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