Poetry.com/Howard Ely
I was named a member of the international society of poets- but had to choose between 3 option to pay for it- going as far as saying, pay for your own poetry
I entered a competiotion of poetry. I submitted a poem that, eventually, earned high awards, or so the compnay claimed. each award was- according to their idea- to be " earned in paying for it", in other words, if i wanted to see my poem in print, i would have to buy various gilded ...