$$ and poetry

[cjchaffin]

$$ for contest entry?  $$ for reading fee?
always rip-off? / sometimes ok? / how free should free be?

I think a few dollars to enter a poetry contest is fine. The prize money has to come from somewhere and I don't have a problem with someone making a few bucks to sort through the entries and decide which they like best.  It's like buying a lottery ticket, or any gamble. If it's fun for you and you're not spending your rent money and not counting on a win, go ahead, as long as the prize really is what it is presented to be.

To each their own. Personally, I'm busy paying the mortgage and all the other bills that keep a roof over my head so I choose hobbies that don't cost much, buy books used and use the library. I have nothing against others using their money for whatever they want to.

agreed, miss ella.

i spend a few bucks here and there on ones that i research and find to be legit and throw some swine before pearls...

erm, i guess that's sposed to be the other way around though. damn. no wonder i never win anything.

sidenote: i sent a request to join the pen's page on the ol book-of-faces: chris chaffin

if you accept me, i will perform a dramatically dramatic rendition of Sally Field's 1985 Academy Award acceptance speech.