Poetry.com review: Fraud! 66

I posted about 15 poems on this site using different aliases. Poetry.com shutdown and noone can retrieve anything from the archives since. Supposedly it will be back up and running anew soon but all old archives will still be lost. I have found that at least one of my poems were published anyway without my consent, and as to cover their tracks since I wasn’t buying the book they put author unknown. I didn’t find that out until 11 years later because I saw where someone took a picture of the page with my poem called “Miss me but let me go” and posted it to facebook. I wrote it in memory of my uncle just after he passed away back in 2004. They will still publish your writing, but they won’t give you the credit for it. If anyone has bought one of their books and finds my poem in it please let me know. Hopefully poetry.com was sued for every penny they scammed and more. It's not right that they publish peoples poems without consent to do so. I told them no to publishing any of mine and so has 3 of my friends, we all 4 have had our poems published without consent

I too am a victim of this nonsense. I was a freshman and sophomore in high school when I entered my most cherished poems on poetry.com. This was back in roughly [protected]. I'm so heartbroken and angry that I cannot find my poems. I was always getting mail and emails stating that I had won contests over and over. It was such a crucial time in my life and writing helped me get through so much at a young age. If someone knows anything about this and know what we should do about it, pleeeeeeaaseeee let us know!

I had dozens of my poems on their website and now I can't even find any of them! What happened and how can i find them all again?

I see all of these reviews, what can we do about Howard Ely, yes I am too a victim of this scam. I wrote poems from my heart. Dealing with death love, I wrote about it. I recently went online looking for my work no place I searched could it be found. We all got to do something this is a travesty. Millions of beautiful pottery stolen.

I have submitted several poems on that site. My very first was submitted on paper in 1989. Before internet and websites were a thing, my last submissions were in the 20 teens before the site disappeared. I certainly am heart broken to have had all of my work over those years taken from me. I hope something is done about this. We all deserve to have our writings returned to us and to be compensated with interest for any books or materials they profited from that contained our works.

My name is Arbee Bowdre

I to am a victim. I wrote poem back

I [protected] and then later in 2012 or

So. The owner of the web site was Howard Ely.

He also sent me fake tickets to a convention

In Florida. That’s when hurricane Katrina hit.

I wrote many poem with hopes of Winning.

Who do I contact

i have lost a substanial number of poems that were my best work. one poem went back to 1990. everry time i think about it i am heartbroken and angry. someone needs to do something about this bogus site.

My name is Linda, I was not aware of this until I just went to look for my poem, mymmyppoempoemBut here is the letter

The poor people of society can't publish their own books because they have no clue they can get their own book printed, DUH! People may have poor paying jobs and can barely pay their rent and considering how dummies voted in a ZOMBIE, ooops again, Pelosi CHEATED the BOZO in and the economy sucks.

Save 10% of whatever money you make even if you have a sucky job and in time print your own book and sell it, anywhere

Poetyry.com seams like a real scam