Until you can restore the archived poetry lost on this site before you took over and make it available to the previous incarnation of poetry.com's authors and poets i will have nothing to do with it. Let me know, Jason Jerome, jasondrinksalot, the only reason you're messaging me at all is because I've enquired previously though you've failed to respond.
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Charles Edward Y.
Poetry.com a greedy exploitive website
My name is Charles Edward York and I am an American author and poet of 27 books of poetry. I realize this poetry.com doesn’t like to be criticized or held accountable for its ongoing mistake of greed over poetry. It’s pretty clear to me whoever runs this thing is not a poetry lover. They are in fact, more concerned about making money at the expense of exploiting others. I’m writing this because it doesn’t matter to me whether I am a platinum member or not. The simple truth is that I have to pay to send a comment and I am denied any comment directed towards poetry.com as well as an allowance to pay by any other means other than PayPal. They censor critical comments about them! I have the feeling foreign interests are at work here. I am an American author and poet of 27 books and this website won’t even allow me to pay with my own debit card to enter any contest. I am not even allowed. If this website kicks me off, I will know that it’s because they are more concerned with making money than they are honoring the good work of a very humble poet who is prolific profound and actually cares about other people.
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SageWarrior
I paid them $10 to promote a poem
I paid them $10 to promote a poem. They did not promote it. Furthermore, there seems to be no help, or support. I emailed them and received no reply. They have three accounts for me and I want them all merged. Do not deal with these folks.
Response from Poetry.comMay 23, 2025
Hi there,
Thanks for your review, and I'm really sorry to hear about your experience — that's not what we want for anyone using our platform.
First, regarding the $10 promotion: promotions are rotated randomly on our homepage and sidebar display, so it's possible you just missed it when it was active. That said, we're happy to double-check the status and ensure you're getting the value you paid for — just let us know the title of the poem.
Second, we sincerely apologize if your earlier message didn’t get a response. We do our best to reply to every support request within 24–48 hours, so if we missed yours, that’s on us.
Finally, we'd be happy to help merge your accounts — please send us the email addresses or usernames associated with each one, and we’ll take care of it.
We appreciate your patience and hope we can turn this around for you.
Warmly,
The Poetry.com Team