Free Poetry contests are a very common happening as of late. They are popping up all over web, most with slogans like “Win $20,000” or “You can be next winner.”Now don’t get it wrong… some of these are quite great and can be useful to someone who just wants to have their name in a book, but idea and how they go about this is a complete scheme.
The ways winners are chosen have nothing to do with “best poem.” It is a complete scam.
Sites like Poetry.com offer daily prizes as well, however they aren’t chosen truthfully. Well, to an extent. What they do, is select a certain number of poems randomly and then read them, and select best poem out of those. They probably don’t even do that… but you get point. They do not read ALL poems. They read a very select few. As far as we know, they select a random poem as winner and read it themselves and see if it totally doesn’t suck… and if it does they select another random one as winner.
If you do not believe this article, try it out yourself.
Create a poem which totally sucks. Something like:
Poetry.com is full of them They offer money and choose a winner But winner is not them It is poetry.com
They never read poems And never select a real winner This is all just a scam And this poem is bad