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Ditto. This is the second time recently we've had what amount to job offers, here. Does that strictly qualify as an ad?
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It qualifies as an ad if it's like that poetry dot com thang that tells you how great your poem is and then offers to give you this beautiful silver bowl with your name engraved on it all you have to do is cough up with a valid credit card number. http://www.cupofcomfort.com/page1.htm ~:> I din't bother to click on the Buy Now button to see how much this treasured volume cost.
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Oh, Faldage, do offer up to us again your award-winning poem! Please? It's been a while...
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I'm sure everybody is just dying to read it.
Ya want my bio, too?
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You got a letter like that too from Poetry.com??? I thought they really liked me... I even got the invitation to the convention to be held in Washington DC this year (lodging and travel at my expense, of course)and to be a guest reader of my poetry. All this for the low, low cost of only $575 to attend. But at least I (and all my proud family and friends) have the option of going to Poetry.com and putting my name into the search engine and seeing my poem up on (upon?) the screen...
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up on (upon?)
I'd say they both work.
I forget how I heard of them, but AWAD got shuffled in with it pretty quick. I tossed off a piece of garbage (almost literally) in about a minute and sent it in. All of a sudden I'm a poet of the year (if not of the century) and I can buy the book it went in for, what was it? $60 or something. I think my convention was in Florida somewhere. ICLIU.
Well, my goodness. I've just been invited to the wingding and fish fry in DC. I've been nominated for Poet of the Year for 2003 and I will be formally inducted as an International Poet of Merit and Honored Member of [their] Society for 2003.
Wowie-zowie!
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I've been nominated for Poet of the Year for 2003 and I will be formally inducted as an International Poet of Merit and Honored Member of [their] Society for 2003.
Oh my God! Me too! What a small world...
What do you think the odds are that if every single poster on this board sent in a poem, every single one would get this same honor?? (100%?)
But if you think about it, it is a great money making scheme. They need less than 40 people to attend to make the $20,000 grand prize possible, and I bet a whole lot more show up. Plus all the poor schmucks who shell out $60 for the book.
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