Yes, to be able to submit works to this site you need to be a member. Remember, it is free to sign up, and only takes a minute.

Yes, Your poem will immediately appear on the home page of this site, and drop down the list as more poetry arrives. For this reason, it is not wise to post your poems in quick succession.

Yes, you will need to select a topic for your poem, There are also several categories for “general poetry” for those that are hard to select a topic for. If you have a topic suggestion that is not listed, please feel free to PM Mick with the suggestion.

This area is used to place a note about your poem, or yourself. It is displayed on the new in page and something catchy here may lead to more readers noticing your poem.

Your poem will be live once you finish the submission process. Please remember to abide by the rules, or your membership could be cancelled and poems deleted.

This depends on if you are a free member or a Premium Member.

Free members may post 2 poems every 24 hours. To encourage interactivity and build the community if your comments to poems ratio is 1:1 or higher, free members may post 5 poems every 24 hours.

Premium Members may post 10 poems every 24 hours. If a Premium Member has a comments to poems ratio of 1:1 or higher, you may post 20 poems every 24 hours. (Different restrictions apply to posting in the Premium Members section - please read them here if you are a Premium Member.)

Poem posting is strictly controlled by the submission process. DO NOT sign up for multiple accounts to try and get more poems onsite quicker, cookies are used, and we will be checking for IP logs.

This is a "cookie" related problem and is to do with the way your browser handles "cookies".
Here are the instructions for internet explorer 6, I will try and research the other browsers and place instructions for them here as well.

Internet Explorer 6.

Click on “Tools” then “Internet Options”

Then go to the “Privacy” tab, in here you will see towards the bottom, a section called “Web Sites” with the wording something like “override the cookie handling of single web sites”

Click on “EDIT” next to this, then where it says “Address of web site” put http://www.your-poetry.com

Then click on “Allow”

Then “Ok”

Then “Apply”

Then “Ok”

This will tell your browser to accept cookies for your poetry dot com, and should allow you to access the site without any problems.

More browsers to come! If this is a little out of what you are comfortable doing, it may be best to ask someone who may have done this, or set up programs before.

Poems are aligned center as the default, if you wish your poem aligned either left or right, as opposed to center, you may do so with page align html.

There is no upper length limit on poetry, but there is a lower limit of at least 6 words (excluding words like "a; is; it; at; to the; etc.) Submissions with less than 6 words, or submissions that are obviously NOT POETRY, WILL BE DELETED.