$$ and poetry

[billy]

the question i'd raise is this: is the site a profit or non profit making site?
if 500 people pay five dollars per poem then it's impossible to call it non profit. someone is creaming off the cash at the top end. one site that i won't mention tried to get it's members to pay 20 dollars a month. yet said it was non profit, they have a good thousand or so member who are online at one time or another. i left the site because of it.

if and when the time come we can't afford to run this site for free, i'll hand it over to an individual who can afford to pay for it's upkeep without resorting to ads, i'm not doing this for any noble reason, i'm doing it because i enjoy the site this way. you lot of shit heads put way more into the site than i ever could :J:

There are lots of ways to make money by writing - not many of them have to do with poetry though. I hate having to pay fees to enter contests, or to have something read, because to me $5 is a meal missed that week. Often, two meals, whereas to most of the people entering, $5 is one coffee out of twenty they drink that week. It's all a load of poo tickets anyway. I can't say I write for the love of it, because I'm too busy hating. Grrr. Fuck off, who asked you anyway? Carol Ann Duffy knows, but she's not talking. Or if she does, the accent cruels it.