INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF POETS RIPP-OFF OWINGS MILLS Maryland

I SUBMITTED TWO POEMS TO POETRY.COM ONE FOR MYSELF AND ONE FOR MY SON,WE LATER RECIEVED LETTERS SAYING WE HAD WON AND OUR POEMS HAD BEEN SELECTED TO BE PUBLISHED.I THEN ORDERED EACH OF US A BOOK OUR POEMS WERE TO BE PUBLISHED IN. ALL POEMS WERE THE SAME IN EACH BOOK EXCEPT FOR THE FIRST PAGE WHICH WAS OUR INDIVIDUAL POEM.WE THEN RECIEVED LETTERS TO JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF POETS AND WERE TOLD OUR POMS WOULD BE PUBLISHED IN A MAGAZINE AND WOULD BE SOLD IN BOOKSTORES .IN THEN PAID FOR EACH OF US. ALL WE RECEIVED WAS A PLAQUE AND PIN AND SOME DISCOUNT COUPONS,BUT NOTHING ABOUT THE MAGAZINE WE WERE TO BE PUBLISHED IN AND SUBMITTED OUR POEMS TO EVER CAME OR WAS HEARD FROM.THE PHONE NUMBER GIVEN DOES NOT ANSWER.

Carol
HAMMOND, Indiana
U.S.A.