I recently read about a certain website looking for poetry submissions (this is a very big website in the Poetry genre - and from the looks of things there are plenty of copycats). A lot of people are crying foul and indeed out and out calling their tactics a poetry scam.

It appears the jist of the less than poetic website(s) goes something like this:

• Website asks for submissions
• Website judges submissions
• Website deems submission is fantastic and want to include  your poem in an anthology
• Website asks for a $50 publishing fee

All very well you might say but the problem is you could submit a full stop and it would be deemed "fantastic" and the fact they have published huge volumes of anthologies (crammed full of $50 poems) mean it works out as a nice little earner for the "poetry scammers".

So what's that got to do with SelfHelpTips.com?

Well, poetry has and  always will be a therapeutic medium to get your message across. And I thought I'd invite you to REGISTER HERE , submit your poem for all to see and allow visitors to make their own determination as to how good a particular poem is (Joomla - the CMS behind this site - allows a rudimentary ranking system).

And if you don't care what others may think of your poem - Good for you!

This will kill a few birds with one penned stone:

1. Preventing more money going on a poetry scam
2. Getting you to vent your artistic talents to the world at large
3. Giving others inspiration by your own hand

That's the theory, now put it into practice!