The Famous Poets Society is a vanity press that offers a poetry contest, a convention contest, and self publishing opportunities. They have been in operation for over 20 years and have published thousands of anthologies and individual books for amateur poets. Their convention contests have awarded over $425,000.00 in cash prizes to amateur poets over 8 years. Poets can submit their poems online using the website. All accepted authors receive an acknowledgment letter and can pay to be published in an anthology. For their work published, writers must buy the anthology in order to receive a copy of it. The BBB currently gives them a rating of "B" and lists 11 closed complaints within the past 3 years.
Famous quotes containing the words famous, poets and/or society:
“Hunger makes you restless. You dream about food—not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother’s milk singing to your bloodstream.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1953)
“Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
““I” is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)