Has anyone heard of poetry.com or Noble House?

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Recently I submitted some poetic work to poetry.com for scholarship purposes and was then, 2 weeks later, informed by the website that they wished to publish my poem into a book of poetry said to be released in the winter of 2009. I go by the knowledge that if it’s too good to be true it usually is. I took the time to get my poem copyrighted before submitting it and the board of poetry.com reassures me that I keep all rights to my work and have already signed a bill of authentication. But today I received an email form another poetry website called Noble House from the UK. They assure me that they have read my poetry and find it a promising work and now wish to also publish it into their book which is to be released in the spring of 2009. I’m uncertain of all of this and I have also confronted my college English teacher to find his take on it. He said that everyone he’s known who has submitted work to poetry.com has always won some kind of an award. But a website that is not looking to scam you will never ask you to buy or indorse what they have to sale. I was just wondering if anyone has every heard of or has experience with either of these two sites. Thanks ^_^
 
Do a web search on "poetry.com" and "scam." Then do one on "noble house" and "scam." You'll find all the information you need to help you decide that these are not the folks with whom you want to publish.

They do, in fact, "put the crappy ones in." They're not interested in poetic quality, nor in selling through normal channels. All they care about is selling copies of their books (at absurdly inflated prices) to the suckers they publish.
 
I submitted something to poetry.com years ago.

I won an award/got asked to come to Washington DC...but I wasnt too sure about that. Sounded suspicious.
I'm pretty sure everyone wins something.
But, they may really be putting yours in a book,
and I doubt they'd put the crappy ones in it.
Wouldnt be a very good seller, you know? :)
Good job.

EDIT: To the person under me,
I'm pretty sure you were directing your answer towards mine.
And I'm sure if someone wrote something like "I went down the street" and called it a poem, they wouldnt put it in the book.
That's only saying if the book was real.
It might not even exist.
But, if it's real, they're going to put atleast halfway decent ones in it. Not ones that are terrible.
They're not going to spend their money making something that's not going to sell. No one in their right mind would buy a book full of completely crappy poems, considering the amount of poems those websites get submitted to them. I'm sure most of the poems they get, have misspellings, don't make any sense, etc. Unless you've bought one of these books yourself. In that case, you may be right. But, by the way you've talked about them, I doubt you have. Sorry to rant like this, but you're a bit wrong.
 
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