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.
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“Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.”
—Alan Bennett (b. 1934)
“Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.”
—Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)
“The true reformer does not want time, nor money, nor coöperation, nor advice. What is time but the stuff delay is made of? And depend upon it, our virtue will not live on the interest of our money. He expects no income, but outgoes; so soon as we begin to count the cost, the cost begins. And as for advice, the information floating in the atmosphere of society is as evanescent and unserviceable to him as gossamer for clubs of Hercules.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)