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PoetrySoup is a huge international community of over 20,000 poets. PoetrySoup also houses over 370,000+ poems written by a wide variety of amateur, professional, and famous poets. PoetrySoup offers many services through its website, while its members promote and manage frequent poetry contests.
PoetrySoup is known for its loyal, strong, welcoming, and growing community of poets (called Soupers). It is also known for featuring published and unpublished poets weekly.
PoetrySoup welcomes content from external sources like public and private educational institutions, teachers, writing organizations, publishers, and similar resources. Any collaboration that PoetrySoup deems will benefit members is welcomed.
Famous PoetsWhile PoetrySoup's database of famous poets is relatively small, it does feature famous poets including Maya Angelou, Ben Jonson, William Blake, Walt Whitman, Shel Silverstein, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and more.
PublishingPoetrySoup in not currently involved in the publishing of anthologies or poetry books.
How FinancedPoetrySoup is private and independent website. While it is not a non-profit organization, its primary means of support comes from the website owners and poets who make periodic donations to the website via Premium Memberships. Revenue generated by Google advertising also provides a means for maintaining this FREE poetry community.
PoetrySoup only accepts poems written by the poets that submits them. All Poems submitted are published as the poet’s original work and under the poet’s copyright. PoetrySoup displays and publishes poems always as the poet’s original work and under the poet’s own copyright.
All poetry by famous poets, not submitted by the poet, is provided for educational research only. The Copyright Law of the United States Of America (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." Other Info
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