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10/22/2010 5:50:44 PM RALPH TAYLOR Posts: 5	Are you familiar with Famous Poets in Talent, OR 97540? I entered my poem "Best Friend" in their contest. Their judges put it in the semi finals. Eligible for a Grand Prize of $1000.00. They offered to put the poem in their "Famous Poets of the Heartland" book. I also would receive a CD of my poem read by Shakespeare actor John Campbell "absolutely" free! The book cost $24.95 plus $5.00 shipping. Could this be a scam? Are they reputable? What do you guys think? I'm a little leery. Any advice? Thanks for reading this. Ralph
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10/25/2010 7:17:47 AM RALPH TAYLOR Posts: 5	I posted a question on 10/22/10. How do I known if it has been answered?
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10/25/2010 7:19:48 AM RALPH TAYLOR Posts: 5	I guess I should ask, where will the answer appear?
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11/5/2010 1:58:56 PM Robert L. Hinshaw Posts: 2	TSURT74 wrote: Are you familiar with Famous Poets in Talent, OR 97540? I entered my poem "Best Friend" in their contest. Their judges put it in the semi finals. Eligible for a Grand Prize of $1000.00. They offered to put the poem in their "Famous Poets of the Heartland" book. I also would receive a CD of my poem read by Shakespeare actor John Campbell "absolutely" free! The book cost $24.95 plus $5.00 shipping. Could this be a scam? Are they reputable? What do you guys think? I'm a little leery. Any advice? Thanks for reading this. Ralph
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1/20/2011 1:28:11 PM Paula Larson Posts: 1	I want to E-mail a copy of a poem from my total list and all this allows me is to "edit" or "delete!" There is no way to E-mail unless you can grab the work from Current Postings, and that is not at all possible from going back several years! Paula Larson
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5/3/2011 7:37:43 PM RALPH TAYLOR Posts: 5	How do I delete the poems I entered in contests but didn't place from the contest entered list?
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5/3/2011 7:51:50 PM RALPH TAYLOR Posts: 5	TSURT74 wrote: How do I delete the poems I entered in contests but didn't place from the contest entered list?
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5/4/2011 1:56:42 AM kabuteng P.iNk k. Posts: 12	Hi Ralph-- I think you can do that by going to your Members Area--then "My Member Contest Entries" and from their you will see that list and you have options on the right to delete from the contest-- I hope this helps--btw as for that Famous Poets contest you mentioned-- sounds like a scam to me? Does google come up with anything about it? Sounds eerily like that Vanity site from before-- poetry.com or was that.org? They did the same thing but that was a huge scam as well... not saying this one is but highly likely that it is... hope this helps --
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5/4/2011 2:02:06 AM kabuteng P.iNk k. Posts: 12	SettlementPub wrote: I want to E-mail a copy of a poem from my total list and all this allows me is to "edit" or "delete!" There is no way to E-mail unless you can grab the work from Current Postings, and that is not at all possible from going back several years! Paula Larson Hi Paula -- maybe you can try searching for that specific poem? Enter it in the search field -- could be easier to spot rather than sorting through all the pages of your poetry-- then once you find it, you can click on the "Send email" option--- I tried it out just now and it worked for me -
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5/8/2011 4:07:18 PM Samual Ronthorpe Posts: 7	Robert L. Hinshaw wrote: TSURT74 wrote: Are you familiar with Famous Poets in Talent, OR 97540? I entered my poem "Best Friend" in their contest. Their judges put it in the semi finals. Eligible for a Grand Prize of $1000.00. They offered to put the poem in their "Famous Poets of the Heartland" book. I also would receive a CD of my poem read by Shakespeare actor John Campbell "absolutely" free! The book cost $24.95 plus $5.00 shipping. Could this be a scam? Are they reputable? What do you guys think? I'm a little leery. Any advice? Thanks for reading this. Ralph It is not a scam, as long as you don't mind spending the money. I did this a few years ago. The hardbound book is a nice quality book and has thousands of poems, makes for a good read. I would not put a lot of stock in the prize money, that probably won't happen. You will have a professional bound collection of poetry, in which yours is included. I never regretted buying the book and I still pick it up and read it often. Hope this helps.
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