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Keep getting letters from Mr. Ely saying my poem, poems will be published in some compilation, but I have never given my permission for them to be published anywhere but on the web site poetry.com.
Someone please put this company/scam artist out of business!
Sincerely, Linda Bentley
my name is catherine j. taylor i want to know what going on with my poem LOVEeeee call me [protected] between myself catherine j. tayloe and howars ely
Hi:
I am a victim too, I sent two of my best poems in 2001. Anyways I thought I am the only person who was stolen $32.00 US. I will not give up, I will be refunded whatever the cost may cost me. Believe if I meet this person Mr. Howard Ely, you know what will happen to him. Unfortunately many people don't feel safe. Such terrorists are protected by somebody. I am profoudly just terrorized by this, and I couldn't talk util I discovered this forum. Where's FBI and where 's CIA to protect citizens against these frauds. Mr Howrd Ely should go to jail instead of enjoying his life in luxurious hotels.
The Lost Poet
hello
i just read about this and believe it or not i was a vitim as well i lost count on how many of MY poems i put up there and now they are all gone! i would love to have all MY poems returned to me they are things i have writen and that i my self have wrote them! it is a major disapointment my mother even bought a book of his "the touch of tomorrow" he made my poem apear on the very first page in the book! im sorry it happened to so many people! i would just love to have all my poems back from that "company" - Amanda, from Maryland
Its a big disappointment knowing Howard Ely made profit on our poems. I've been sending my poems to Mr. Ely since 1980's. Like other poets I also received a newsletter with an invitation to appear at the Las Vegas Poetry Convention to receive my award. Fortunately, I was never able to appear because of my financial status. I still hold letters from their company. I also had dreams of one day having my poems published. I would like to have all my poems ever published to this company returned back to me. - GITANA, from Florida
poetry.com went out of business a year ago they were bankrupt they were also a bunch of other so called poetry contests and entries together under different names.. now they are back in 2010...
I am Amanda Marie Crane a high school grad i wanted to make somehting of my poetry so May or june of 2010 i entered my poem "seasons" into famous poets society a scam done by a scam artist poetry.com by Ely and aurora i recieved a letter saying i was going to be published but in order to be published i had to pay money and i wanted a book so i ended up paying at least 30-40 dollars with my poem i thought people would enjoy it and say "who wrote this? shes not famous but shes good" then in june on the 2nd i recieved an award saying i was in honarable mention (though i didnt win the money good thing hugh) i then thought why not enter my poem again so i did and they sent me the same letter i decieded not to publish it because i didnt want to... instead i had called famous poets society asing about my book and they said it would be sent to me soon so i waited and waited well now its August
well im fed up waiting so i started to do some digging around i found so much about famous poets society scam and poetry.com scam it was on 20/20 i had no idea, well now i am so angry i called a man he said to me this
" Amanda you should know something... he told me about how they went bankrupt and so on a year ago, and when they say they are going to publsih you companies like this who make you pay to be published, but not all companies have a system they wait and wait until they recieve enought money to make the books they need and then they put your poem on page one and then other poems behind it making a book well not all books are the same no one is going to read your poem only you... and the book doesnt get sold you can buy it off of them but no one is going to read your poem they bought it from you and published it with your name but they arent going to put it in other books..."
i am sincerly pissed and i plan to do something about it
- Amanda Marie Crane
I submitted a poem on a whim, and now they won't quit sending me junk mail!
I also fell for this scam... I was a poor college student going through financial issues back in 2005.. and was looking for scholarships and saw their site banner for 10, 000 dollar cash reward. "poetry.com" I had always had a passion for writing and at the time I was also in a very emotional venerable state. I thought what the heck... it couldn't hurt any thing. so I entered on a whim. hoping for just a portion to help with my college education. but I had been miss led... I got the award info in the mail... I was so excited that I did keep every thing. every piece of paper. my mom was so proud she bought a of copy of the book for me.. (she also had to claim bankruptcy that same year.) but $50 didnt seem that steep when I saw that my poem made it on the front page.. (but I guess that too was part of the scam). they later asked that I buy seats to a reading event that would place me in the real finals for the competition. $500 dollars a seat and no hotels or air fare paid in las vegas. when I explained that I didnt have that kind of money. they told me I could pay only 100 dollars and someone else could read the poem for me so that I could still have a chance to win... my mom couldnt help with paying and I cried at missing the chance for winning the 10, 000 dollars or even having the expensive trophies on my wall. (but now I am glad she didnt) they even contacted me a few months later about doing an audio recording of the poem to be publish... again for a nice fee
It had been like a godsend, it lifted me up and made me feel worth it for a time in my life when I needed it. but now I look back at it as a huge lie... tarnishing the memories that I once felt. not only that I am sad to say that I even now I have the book title in my professional resume. (guessss I should delete that.) : (it hurts me more that this has been going on for so long... it is 2010 and still they have been duping poor people out of their money. not only that but crushing the hopes and dreams of soooooooooooo many young artists and older ones as well. : (
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Found this link as well if any one is interested. has all the complains that I have seen in mass yet.
I feel all of us whom have put our poetry on this site should be paid immensely by virtue of this a-hole who stole from us. I have taken the necessary steps of filing a law suit against him/them involved in a fraudulant way for this. I have been told so many things and don't know who or what to believe anymore. If anyone involved in this scam please contact me via Email. robtogo4u@yahoo.com or call me at [protected]/[protected] . By mail: Robert Gray 10901 W. 36th St. Little Rock, Arkansas 72205
Sincerely, Mr Robert G. Gray
Did anything ever come of this
I am wondering the same i still have everything Kcmjr2007@gmail.com
Oh, by the way, a class action suit is the best revenge back at that ### Howard and his poem- stealing
friends!
Hello,
I am a victim of this company also. And the company has since gone out of business in early 2009, and has been
purchased by some company named LuLu poetry.com.
I am a 14 year old girl from Austin, Texas and I was a victim of this same scam! A couple of months ago I entered a "poetry contest" that I found at poetry.com. I received e-mails from poetry.com saying that I was a semi- finalist in a $10.000 contest. Later the same month I received another e-mail from poetry.com saying that I had won. All of this was a fraud to publish MY poem and make money off of it while I sit and watch my poem make another man rich. I do not know how many people have become a victim of this website, but there has to be thousands if not more. Together we can stop this from happening to another person. Our dreams have been crushed by this website and this is not tolerable!
My Mother is an attorney and says we all should file a class action lawsuit as poetry.com has perpetrated multiple criminal actions against all of us. She will be speaking to law firms that handle this type of litigation. We are also filing a complaint with the Texas Attorney General's Office and encourages others to do the same in their respective states! Once she finds a law firm that handles this type of litigation, we will post more information!
Thank you!
Sonia
I am also a victim from the time I was way younger from the worlds book of poetry my poem was the 3rd largest selling poem in 1st book Called "Time Spent Away" That poem was stolen entered and won 10, 000 bucks I never received that money never knew the person got the money said they was me and the company contacted me and want me to be a writer years later told me all these things thinking I was the fraudster who collected the money. The poem was written because of the abuse I was receiving from a man who used witchcraft from Haiti who wanted a green card I wasn't thinking I will continue another time I really want that poem back if anyone has the very first edition of that book please message me on FB Charlotte E. Myers which was signed at the bottom of the poem.
I just tried to go on the website I had at least 6 poems on. I to was told they were going to be pushed, I owned copy right, I was chosen to go to the yearly convention and I won poet of the month and so on. I've been very sick past 5 plus years didn't even know about this. So all my poems were just taken? Is it to late for me to do something about this?
Also had a similar experience in 2004