@diem: why elizabeth swann? why not britney? urk.
about the contests at
www.poetry.com. i'm not pretty sure, but almost all people i know who submitted entries for their contests several years ago got letters inviting them to a "poets gathering" and they were selling these poetry anthologies but they were too darned expensive for the bum i was then.
thing is, i thought that was a scam. and i tried joining the contests again but they've removed the philippines from the list of countries where the entries are from. if that's not discrimination, i don't know what is... or do they think that filipinos don't have what it takes to cut it in the writing business. jeeze.