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Enter the easy poetry contest on this
page and you can obtain a prize more valuable than fame
and big money. Simply read the following announcements
which you are likely to find on the internet or in your
local newspaper, then answer a few simple questions. The Texas Poetry Alliance is offering a $1,000 grand prize in their annual poetry contest open to the public. There is no entry fee and everyone is invited to submit a poem. To enter, send one poem 21 lines or less to Free Poetry Contest, 1712 E. Riverside Dr., Suite 147, Austin, Texas 78741. Or enter on-line at www.freecontest.com. The deadline for entering is Dec. 16. The Bards of Burbank, one of America's foremost poetry societies, is sponsoring a free poetry contest. The deadline for entering is Dec. 23. The contest is open to everyone who has ever written a poem and they especially encourage undiscovered talent and are offering a $1,000 grand prize. To enter send one poem on any subject, using any style, 21 lines or less to Free Poetry Contest, 2219 W. Olive Ave., Suite 250, Burbank, Calif. 91506 or enter online www.freecontest.com. The
New York Poetry Alliance is sponsoring a
free poetry contest, open to everyone. To enter, send a
poem 21 lines or less to New York Poetry Alliance, Box
1588, New York, N.Y. 10116-1588, or enter online at www.freecontest.com.
A winner's list will be sent to all entrants. Deadline
for entering is Dec. 30. There are 28 prizes in all with
a $1,000 cash prize going to the winner. |
Now, all you need to do to win is answer a few questions about these affiliated organizations' contests. New
York Poetry Alliance
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1. Are these organizations truly interested in supporting the literary arts? Do you know of any other functions these organizations serve other than running poetry contests? 2. If these organizations sponsor legitimate contests do you know of anyone whose work has been rejected? Why is this? 3. How is it that a website copyrighted by the New York Poetry Alliance has an address in Beverly Hills, California? It's enough to make me wonder who the New York Poetry Alliance really is. 4. Can you find the telephone numbers of any of these organizations? Try Berkely. Try Texas-- they give an Austin address. Try Reno-- surely the Reno "Fine Arts Institute" will have a telephone. 5. What's the address of the New Jersey Rainbow Poets? The Florida Literary Guild? 6. Do you know the names of any of the officers of any of these various organizations? Where may one obtain this information? Why isn't this information readily available? 7. Burbank, Texas, New York, Reno, Florida-- How come contest entries from all these local organizations go to the same website? Are these really "local" organizations? Or are they just a way for a scam company to more widely cast its net for victims. 8. Most everybody knows that the Baseball Hall of Fame is in Cooperstown, NY. Can you tell me where the Living Poets Hall of Fame is located? Telephone number? 9. Where is the International Library of Famous Poets located? Is it even a library? 10. Do you think that
if you have to PAY to have your poem published in a
"luxurious, hardbound anthology" that that
makes you a "poet?" Poets should receive
pay for their work, even if it's often only a few copies
of the publication in which their work appears. |
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