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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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Sooo ... *sob* ... you mean it was all a con? Oh, how could they? I mean, Poet of the Year! Damn, the depths to which some people will sink!
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"I'm sure everybody is just dying to read it. Ya want my bio, too?"
Well, yeah, since ya ask. Wouldja? Huh? Wouldja? Pleez?
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Cynics take heart (and heed): A Cup of Comfort is a legitimate opportunity to publish high-quality creative nonfiction stories in a best-selling book series, published by Adams Media Corporation. Although stories are submitted on spec, entrants pay NO fees. Of the 1000-2000 stories submitted for each volume (four published per year), only 50 to 60 make it into the book. Only about 90% of submissions received are publishable, by our standards. Authors whose stories are published in A Cup of Comfort books retain serial rights, enabling them to resell their stories to magazines, as well as other rights, such as film and live performance. In fact, after having their stories spotted in A Cup of Comfort, several authors have since sold their stories to TV producers and to magazines. A few have also been able to sell other stories and books that they had been unable to sell previously.
Some people write and publish their work in publications that are read by hundreds of thousands, or millions, of readers, such as in A Cup of Comfort. Others talk about writing and dream of publishing. Which are you?
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I admire your pluck. Chicken pun intended.
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wordsinger, as you claim this is all on the up and up, am I to assume then that you have paid Anu Garg for the use of his disc and server facilities for your solicitation?
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ditto to what tsuwm said, as you already know, since i sent you a PM stating the same.
this is a dot org, not a dot com.. it is not a commercial space, and its rude of you, on behalf of adams media, (or on your own volition) to come in and take advantage of the this space for your commercial advantage.
Anu Gar accepts low key ads like yours for the newsletter.
Jackie, i really think that you should delete blatten commerical posting like this one immediately, failing that, they should be total ignored, and all responces should be via email
i noticed sir you did not include your personal email in you profile.. i guess you don't want/like to be spammed.
well neither do we. if adams media is on the up and up, it has a budget for advertizing... go spend your money on some commercial site, and don't waste our time.
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Marinade No. 5
I pour the acidic vinegar
deep into the salt salt soy sauce
and spice with cardamom.
The whole is set aside to mingle and
only later do I lovingly
place the slice of the dead
cow in the liquor.
One hour and I remove to
the cold of the box
The dark box
The box with the other dead
The plants
The animals
All dead until I eat
them.
Then they become alive again
Resurrected by my life forces.
Copyright © David Quincy Raig
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As much a product of his own imagination as he is sprung from Thalia's brow, David Raig is steeped in the tradition of the poetry of Kelly and LaFemme. Mr. Raig writes what he must when he must. This poem, in particular, exemplifies his love of the power of matter over mind in the matter of the mind of poetry.
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In reply to:
Of the 1000-2000 stories submitted for each volume (four published per year), only 50 to 60 make it into the book. Only about 90% of submissions received are publishable, by our standards.
Emphasis added. Perhaps your standards need raising?
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Perhaps your standards need raising?Judging by the sample I read… http://cupofcomfort.com/page1.htm
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All this fun over here and you guys didn't call me out to play??? (pouting... slamming door to own room... sobbing on pillow)
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There, there, sweet musick...let me offer you a cup of comfort. Feel free to throw things, everybody, but I could NOT resist that straight line!
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...closed her eyes and fearfully reached across her chest. She slowly slid her hand down from below the neck to the soft rise above her left nipple... the spider was still there !
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the spider was stil there !
LLOL, vika.
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