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Andrea Dietrich grew up in Iowa and now resides in Utah with a spouse and two cats. She has two grown children and six grandchildren. Having graduated BYU with a Spanish major/ESL minor, she has spent most of her adult life teaching. It wasn't until 2000 that she began writing in earnest and discovering her "niche" as a writer of lyrical poetry. The internet opened up a new world for her, and she has spent two decades now participating in poetry clubs, acting as a judge of poetry contests for various magazines, for the website Shadow Poetry, and for Poetry Soup.

Ms. Dietrich has won numerous awards, as well as the title Poet of the Year 2008, from the Yahoo group, Poetry For Thought. In addition, she has won prizes from the magazines Lucidity, Bell's Letters, Art with Words, Poets at Work and SP Quill, the magazine for which she wrote grammar and poetry articles as well as movie reviews and for which she acted as poetry editor for the head editor Marie Summers for six years. Many of her poems appeared in Shadows Ink, a yearly published series of chapbooks of award winning poetry as well as in numerous other anthologies. Her short stories appeared in many issues of SP Quill and much of her poetry was published in eight chapbooks (no longer sold online).

Since coming to Poetry Soup, Ms. Dietrich has been both contest sponsor and winner of numerous contests. In 2010, her poem "Cinder Girl" was first place winner of Soup's International contest (these contests are no longer held). A song was created from her lyrics "Honeymoon Serenade" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDWxc4cpHDc) and two movies have been made featuring the poetry of Andrea Dietrich: "A Tale of Fire and Ice" (a 4 min. Z-Film Fest Project, 2014) and the full length movie "Six Days of Sistine" in which 20 poems of Ms. Dietrichs serve as the thoughts of two characters played by Jamie Campbell Bower and Elarica Johnson (directed by Richard J. Perry, 2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7710360/

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Need Advice on AI checkers/ Please don't enter my contests with AI

Blog Posted:7/25/2025 9:27:00 AM

Apparently it's all on us contest sponsors now to determine if AI is used in our contests even though Soup supposedly prohibits its use. I did a quick google search. The three AI detectors I found needed you to sign up to use them (even though they said they were free). I am really bad with technology. Can anyone give me links to good AI checkers that don't make you sign up? Does such a thing even exist? Soup has a plagiarism checker. Why not for AI?

If I can't figure this stuff out, please don't blame me if you see AI winners in my contest. Right now I only know of one for sure who uses it. My desire is to be able to just have three good AI checkers to use when I am suspicious that it's being used, and I would eliminate poetry in my contests that shows greater than 80% Ai use across the board using the three checkers. Does that seem reasonable? Ugggg, I am feeling depressed about all of this.

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Suzette
Richards

Date: 7/26/2025 12:48:00 AM

Is it just me, or would people now eagerly await your contest result in the hope of spotting the "almost AI" contest winner. Trusting our gut is sometimes kinder than being 100% right - a quiet N/A would have been more diplomatic towards all the other winners who are NOT using AI. Just my random thoughts on the matter. Keep strong.

Constance
La France

Date: 7/25/2025 6:16:00 PM

Andrea, here are some free AI detectors to use, Quilbot, Scribbr, GPTZero, JustDone, Sidekick, Phrasily, Originaly, you can get grammarily ai detector free but they are bugging you to join, same with a few others. Hope this helps. If I get a poem that shows AI I check on several detectors to verify. I think 80% is too high, less than 50% for me. The whole thing is making me heartbroken...

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 7/25/2025 6:17:00 PM

yes, it sickens me, Constance. I will be trying to do this stuff, but only on poems I find suspicious. I just don't have time to run lots and lots of tests.

Jan
Allison

Date: 7/25/2025 3:59:00 PM

Good luck with trying to detect AI in any contests you sponsor Andrea, it is pointless saying please don't enter AI in my contests as we know some folk are totally dishonest, ignore the rules and tick it to say they wrote it themselves and post AI and plagiarised poetry on the site. Shame admin don't impose their rule about banning poets who post plagiarised poems. It is bringing the site into disrepute - no wonder poets are leaving or no longer active:-(

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 7/25/2025 6:21:00 PM

yes, the least they could do is kick of the plagiarizers. That's super easy to prove. good grief.

Tania
Kitchin

Date: 7/25/2025 1:56:00 PM

Andrea, my advice is to use at least three detectors because some will show AI and it's not accurate and vice-versa. I usually check with 3 and if 2 out of 3 show AI at least 70 percent I won't place those poems. There are members as well due to AI use and plagiarism who I will not place in my contests. It is getting discouraging to sponsor contests and I am on the fence with continuing. I am also doing more on other sites where the admins are more responsive.

Suzette Richards
Date: 7/25/2025 9:41:00 PM

75% is still too high a cut off point as putting it through NOTEPAD will render it 50% AI per a detector. Better still, N/A it as you obviously don't like the poem. Since when must a sponsor give a reason for not placing a poem? Much ado about nothing (to quote Shakespeare).

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 7/25/2025 6:20:00 PM

I do only one contest a month, all that I can handle. I will go with the 70% like you suggested if I use the checkers. thanks.

Suzette Richards
Date: 7/25/2025 2:46:00 PM

I'm of the same mind, Tania. I used two independent diagnostic programmes as AI detectors are unreliable. But why go to all that trouble to only be able to keep the contests going? I can do without the extra responsibility and time wasted, not to mention the data it chews like sweeties ...

Chetta
Achara

Date: 7/25/2025 12:28:00 PM

I use these three and I do not have to sign in to use them. I just go to the page and paste what I want to check into the box and click the check text box. I ignore any sign in or create account or upload program prompts. Both quillbot and scribber say 100% on the ai text I use, and 0% on the text I have written myself. Gramercy says 75% on the ai generated, and 0% on my own written text. https://www.scribbr.com/ai-detector/ https://quillbot.com/ai-content-detector https://www.grammarly.com/ai-detector

Tom Woody
Date: 7/25/2025 4:50:00 PM

AIAIAOOOO

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 7/25/2025 12:40:00 PM

maybe I am doing it right then. A person I suspected was using AI , all I was getting was 0% and I thought maybe I needed to download something. I guess this person is not cheating like i thought they were, but their poetry seems so improved over when they started here. That's why I feel confused.

Rob
Carmack

Date: 7/25/2025 12:21:00 PM

AI has made hosting a contest a real science project. Running every poem through three checkers and hoping there are no false positives. It would be nice if the site would automatically check a poem when it was entered in a contest, or, an option in which a poet/poetess could have their poems 'authorized AI free'. Once it has been authorized, a symbol would be placed after the last line of the poem. This would still be prone to problems, but it would take the burden off the host.

Suzette Richards
Date: 7/26/2025 12:52:00 AM

I meant "3 strikes and out" of being allowed to enter contests. It was once suggested that contests are limited to Premier Members, but that would not solve the problem, especially with plagiarism ... Oh, well ... A solution will present itself if we step away from the problem.

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 7/25/2025 6:19:00 PM

I like that idea you gave second, Suzette about the panel of judges to ask help of. and three strikes you are out. But will Soup want to lose the money from these members?? hmmm

Rob Carmack
Date: 7/25/2025 5:30:00 PM

Suzette - Good point concerning potential litigation. I think there is some policing already happening. I found today that a suspect placement in one of my contests this year has disappeared. Andrea, I do believe that eventually this is all futile, but we can go out fighting. What is happening here and in music will eventually happen with everything. We should never have created AI, but our species always plays the fool.

Suzette Richards
Date: 7/25/2025 1:17:00 PM

That brings me to another thought: If we can set up a panel of judges where sponsors could refer "trouble cases" to. Obviously not check each and every contest entry - that is daft - only check your shortlist (eg, top 10), and if unsure about one or two ... Then, 3 strikes and they would be banned from entering contests ... seeing as PS seems reluctant to act as they might be sued for incorrectly deleting an account ... But we need to do something to protect the integrity of the contests and take the heat off the sponsors - there are far more accurate checkers out there than the AI detectors (which are not 100% accurate).

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 7/25/2025 12:46:00 PM

the problem with that is that I am hearing of my friends trying out their own poems to see what AI says, and sometimes different AI checkers are saying 60% AI or 75%, stuff like that. I have not tried running any of my own. Anyway, Soup would have to have the 3 AI checkers in place that would automatically say a poet had "passed" the test (but at what percentage?) And what if poets like friends of mine who told me their poems were sometimes saying were AI were not able to enter because of this? I see no way out of this hell hole.

Suzette Richards
Date: 7/25/2025 12:34:00 PM

Ah, I like this idea, Rob. A bit like a pre-approval bond before buying a house.

Suzette
Richards

Date: 7/25/2025 9:38:00 AM

Free AI Checkers that actually work: Scribbr, QuillBot, GPTZero. And I have the cut off point as 50% because a 100% AI-generated poem that is filtered through NOTEPAD will only score 50% on an AI checker (see my blog, Blasphemy). Our best bet is still our own mind. :)

Constance La France
Date: 7/25/2025 6:28:00 PM

Andrea, I believe that if a poem is checked for punctuation, spelling etc using AI it will come back as an AI poem, and AI does not like overused phrases and words, so that is why I use several detectors, it takes no more time than checking for syllables once you have your detectors in place, and for example if I use 4 detetors and 3 say human and 1 says AI. I will go with the human. If I check on 6 detectors and 5 say AI, well I consider it AI ~

Suzette Richards
Date: 7/25/2025 1:04:00 PM

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Suzette Richards
Date: 7/25/2025 12:54:00 PM

As I mentioned some time ago: When a text has been corrected using, for example, Grammarly.com, it will not render it AI-generated. See my blog, Judging Guide for Sponsors. It highlights the points that a detector would regularly be alerted to.

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 7/25/2025 12:50:00 PM

Of course, but then someone inevitably comes along saying "Oh, don't you realize you just congratulated a winner who used AI?" So honestly, I can't always tell the difference. I just find it highly suspicious when someone who writes with bad grammar and punctuation is suddenly writing perfect poetry. I suppose there is nothing wrong with checking one's grammar and punctuation with AI, but do AI detectors take those things into consideration when telling us if a poem is AI or not?

Suzette Richards
Date: 7/25/2025 12:36:00 PM

The best AI detector is still your own brain. :)

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 7/25/2025 10:33:00 AM

So I just now tried your first one. But it says 0% and underneath it says " Get Grammarly" So I have to upload first to use it? this is how ignorant I am on all this new stuff, Suzette. I am afraid to upload (download) things because I keep getting viruses. I don't know what the heck I am doing. I just wish it was the year 2010 again and life was still cool but not so techno. Maybe one of my grandkids can help me later. Thanks.

Kim
Rodrigues

Date: 7/25/2025 9:35:00 AM

See, that is the problem. Sponsoring a contest should be fun. I don’t want anyone to be mad at me if an AI poem ends up on the list. I don’t want people entering with AI either! Andrea, I for one support you. Nobody should have to worry about this. Hugs ~ Kim

Andrea Dietrich
Date: 7/25/2025 10:28:00 AM

well, Someone emailed me the name of one that they said is easy to use and free but then it was asking me what plan I wanted (paid) and should I add it as an extension of Chrome. Frankly, I am illiterate on these technological things. If I can't figure out how to use the ones Suzette has shown me, I guess people will just have to lump it if they see I am giving wins to AI poems. I could swear I am seeing poems that look like AI in several recent contests, but what do I know?

My Past Blog Posts


Need Advice on AI checkers/ Please don't enter my contests with AI Date Posted: 7/25/2025 9:27:00 AM
A reminder to those who entered my last contest Date Posted: 7/20/2025 11:21:00 PM
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Judging my haiku contest finally/ what I am noticing Date Posted: 5/26/2025 3:35:00 PM
Foodie Pleiades Contest Finalized Date Posted: 4/28/2025 12:15:00 PM
My Contest Finally Judged Date Posted: 3/22/2025 3:59:00 PM
That's Life! GREAT JOB, Contestants Date Posted: 3/2/2025 1:21:00 PM
Congrats to Winners of my Second Chance Pleiades Challenge Date Posted: 1/1/2025 8:28:00 PM
Happy Birthday to a New Year Baby Date Posted: 12/31/2024 12:33:00 PM
About my Current Contest Date Posted: 12/23/2024 11:41:00 PM
Alouette Me - Finally judged - Congrats to ALL my Winners Date Posted: 12/2/2024 4:41:00 PM
Regarding my Pleiades Contest - Please Read if you are a Contestant Date Posted: 11/1/2024 4:14:00 PM
WORD CRIMES - Short, fun music video on common grammar mistakes Date Posted: 10/14/2024 12:04:00 PM
Thanks & Congrats to Published Poets: A Special thanks to Emile Pinet Date Posted: 10/7/2024 4:03:00 PM
MISSING SOUPERS Date Posted: 9/15/2024 10:17:00 AM
Been Away/ Hope to get contest placements up by weekend Date Posted: 8/29/2024 1:15:00 PM
Is anyone else having problems entering any contests? Date Posted: 8/5/2024 12:28:00 AM
Is it true...? Date Posted: 8/1/2024 1:03:00 PM
Tankacrostic examples for those having difficulties understanding how it goes Date Posted: 7/10/2024 1:37:00 PM
As I Wait for my Contest Results to Post Date Posted: 6/30/2024 4:43:00 PM
Is anyone having these problems? Date Posted: 6/20/2024 1:11:00 PM
Contestants - Poofread your Andaree Date Posted: 4/29/2024 12:14:00 AM
Please EDIT before I judge my contest: ONE LINE ONLY Date Posted: 2/25/2024 2:51:00 PM
Congrats, Sijo Winners Date Posted: 2/4/2024 11:28:00 AM
In Need of Clarification on putting info underneath poems Date Posted: 2/4/2024 9:09:00 AM

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7/25/2025	Wearing Seven Faces	Quatrain	mental health,
7/25/2025	crayola hiku	Haiku	nature,
7/24/2025	Imagination	Rhyme	imagination,
7/21/2025	Kensington Avenue	Quatrain	places,
7/20/2025	When His Darkness Met Light	Other	inspirational,
7/19/2025	treasure hiku	Haiku	poetry,
7/18/2025	After the Yearning	Verse	feelings,
7/17/2025	Sweet Summer	Sonnet	summer,
7/16/2025	My Heartbroken Love Song	Quatrain	angst,heartbroken,
7/15/2025	Born For This	Quatrain	river,
7/15/2025	snow hiku	Haiku	snow,
7/13/2025	Kaleidoscopic Love	Verse	love,
7/12/2025	A Body Possessed	Etheree	body,
7/11/2025	Lubricant	Limerick	humorous,
7/10/2025	Kundalini	Rhyme	spiritual,
7/9/2025	sweet scent hiku	Haiku	sea,
7/8/2025	Confronting Shadows	Etheree	spiritual,
7/7/2025	His Misty Eyes	Free verse	sad,
7/6/2025	Like a Toy Car	Rhyme	poetry,
7/5/2025	Garden of Delights	Ekphrasis	flower,
7/3/2025	Charming Psychopath	Free verse	people,
7/2/2025	Gates of His Hell	Sonnet	loneliness,lost love,
6/30/2025	The Shape of Water	Verse	water,
6/29/2025	The World is Bleeding	Villanelle	humanity,
6/28/2025	Dare at the Fair	Limerick	boy,
6/27/2025	Feeling Nostalgic	Other	nostalgia,
6/26/2025	End of Fall Hiku	Haiku	autumn,
6/25/2025	To Create My Story	Monorhyme	writing,
6/24/2025	His Angie Baby	Rhyme	woman,
6/23/2025	night’s serenade hiku	Haiku	romantic,
6/22/2025	Dawn Wakes Nature	Roundel	sun,
6/22/2025	Fulcrum of a Rose	Etheree	spiritual,
6/21/2025	Staircase	Verse	heaven,stars,
6/20/2025	a love hiku	Haiku	love,
6/19/2025	The Fantasy of Love	Sonnet	romantic love,
6/19/2025	In 50 Long Years Gone Fast	Couplet	husband,
6/19/2025	Fireworks	Lanterne	firework,
6/18/2025	In June	Haiku	june,
6/17/2025	Howling Wilderness	Acrostic	wind,
6/17/2025	When U Walked In	Rhyme	boy,
6/17/2025	June 20, 2025	Englyn	day,
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6/15/2025	Like an Autumn Leaf	Rhyme	autumn,
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6/13/2025	AI	Monoku	writing,
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6/11/2025	My Inner Voice Told Me	Sonnet	dark,youth,
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6/8/2025	rain hiku	Haiku	rain,
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6/7/2025	vagabond hiku	Haiku	love hurts,
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6/3/2025	a hiku	Haiku	woman,
6/3/2025	Hermit	Shadorma	people,
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6/2/2025	a sunset hiku	Haiku	sunset,
6/1/2025	Autumn and Its Passing - Edited	Rhyme	autumn,
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5/31/2025	A Mating Dance -revised	Free verse	animal,
5/30/2025	wildflower	Monoku	metaphor,
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5/24/2025	Along with the Thunder	Rhyme	abuse,
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The Stone	Elegy	death,love,
A Winter Night	Lyric	imagination,nature,
Violin	Personification	death,love,rose,
Just Wait and See	Free verse	nature,science,space,
My White Lace Tablecloth	Narrative	family,forgiveness,friend
A Limerick Christmas Three (3) .	Limerick	funny,seasons,thank you,c
Always Mothers Day	Rhyme	funny,mother,thank you,me
A Pirate Jay	Light Verse	animals,
Divine Splendor	Blank verse	introspection,nature,scie
Brother - Billy	Narrative	brother,childhood,family,
Umbrella	Personification	confusion,devotion,life,l
You Played Me	Personification	confusion,imagination,mus
Concept of Time	Free verse	nature
Jingle	Free verse	funny,life,music
An Ever-Changing Universe	Narrative	mysterylight,light,univer
Transcendence	Tanka	fantasy,imagination,natur
Spaces .... the Earth Moved .....	Imagism	love
December Sun .	Rhyme	naturewinter,sun,winter,
A Whisper On the Wind	Personification	nature,
Footsteps	Free verse	fatherme,me,
If Ever	Free verse	love,
Dreams Like Light-Waves	Prose Poetry	imaginationautumn,
A Fantsy World	Haiku
September Song (Triple Tanka)	Tanka	nature
Where the Sycamore Grew	Narrative	autumn,family,house,life,
Perfect Nature	Haiku	nature
Wild Love	Narrative	garden,love,rose,sweet,
Positive Perspective	Tanka	inspirational
My Pilot Light	Verse	inspirational,introspecti
Love's Echos	Free verse	lovevoice,love,me,voice,
For Wifey	Rhyme	loveme,love,me,i love you
Alabaster Night	Free verse	nature,planet,sea,
Causalities of War	Elegy	death,war,
" Ike and Jane "- Sequence 2	Light Verse	funny,love,wifeme,me,time
Pretty Orchids	Free verse	caregiving,happiness,hope
Even a Sparrow Soars	Free verse	animals
My Piano Knows	Verse	devotion,happiness,holida
Dancing With the Stars	Free verse	nature,scienceblue,
The Unrequited Mantra	Free verse	devotion,hope,lost love,l
Fig Tree, New Year's Day	Narrative	naturewinter,winter,new y
Poets At-Large	Free verse	life,
To Know You	Free verse	devotion,husband
Moved To Tears By Josh Groban	Verse	music,on writing and word
Sequence-Sonnet	Lanterne	life,love,on writing and
Reflections	Free verse	happiness,life,lovesun,
Somber Is the Color of the Day	Free verse	day,light,me,winter,words
A Winter Rose - a Sonnet	Sonnet	rose,winter,
The Word Weaver	Free verse	introspection,lifeme,
Each Day a Gift	Free verse	inspirational,introspecti
Contrary Kisses	Free verse	inspirational,introspecti
She Waits...	Free verse	art,hopelonging,
Blue Heaven	Haiku	nature
A Death In the Sun	Free verse	hope,seasons
My Reason For Living	Free verse	husband
Terra Firma	Haiku	nature,science,time
How Could I Have Known	Free verse	husband,love,mystery
The Ghost of My Lonely	Kyrielle	dream,me,mystery,
True Poetry In Motion?	Free verse	inspirationalmay,
Frozen In Time	Free verse	seasonssnow,snow,
Whiteness	Acrostic	tribute,
The Return	Free verse	childhood,
Forgotten Treasure	Light Verse	adventure,art,beauty,enco
The Farewell Performance	Free verse	lifefilm,
December 21, 2012	Limerick	business,funny,holiday,ph
Love Like a Mighty Oak	Haiku	love,nature,tree,me,me,
Andrea Dietrich	Rhyme	friendship,inspirational,
Putting On Makeup	Rhyme	introspection,sad,
Darkness	Rhyme	love,
Purple Flowers of My Adolescence	Free verse	allegory,angst,urban,
A Lovers World and Dreamers Dream	Rhyme	fantasy,love,heart,dream,
Desire	Light Verse	butterfly,flower,life,los
Cloud - Recited	Free verse	me,nature,
Fireflies	Haibun	love,nature,me,light,ligh
Love? Bah!	Rhyme	lost love,lovelove,
Real Life Shoe Fable	Clerihew	husband
Nature and I	Free verse	creation,earth,nature,
Fickle-Foolish-Footles - Man's Best Friend	Footle	animal,dog,funny,
Black and Blue	Rhyme	abuse,funny,husband,me,
Picnics and Sand	Quatrain	beach,humorous,
Sun and Moon	Dramatic Verse	beauty,devotion,heart,
The Loss of the Rose	Free verse	goodbye,rose,
Foreboding	Haiku	mystery,nature
Melting Into You	Free verse	how i feel,romance,
The Spilling Over of Me	Free verse	emotions,father,
O'Er the Battlements I Do Roam	Dramatic Verse	war,home,home,
Evergreen	Free verse	friendship,
Maggie	Free verse	beauty,love,me,smile,
Amethyst	Free verse	color,nature,romance,
Your Single Glance	Rhyme	romance,
Love Embraced	Tanka	love,autumn,
A Song At Sunrise	Couplet	faithsong,song,
Stealing From a Goddess	Free verse	mythology,passion,power,
Teacher's Pet	Rhyme	people,
Cocaine Is Her Name	Free verse	addiction,
Remembering When	Verse	childhood,life,
Andrea Dietrich	Clerihew	friendship,
Beat Out the Rhythm	Rhyme	funny
Candle	Concrete	lonely,
Touching Me	Free verse	love,passion,
The Space Between	Kwansaba	bridal shower,planet,