Creative-Poems.com: a Fitting Forum for Your Work

The Creative-Poems website is a great site, where you can receive recognition for your work through member comments, weekly Featured Poetry Awards, and quarterly Poetry Contests. They do not pay for the poems they post, though they do offer prizes in their Poetry Contests.

At Creative-Poems, non-premium (free) members--as well as trial members--are allowed to place up to four posts on their site in a 24-hour period. (Premium members are allowed eight). This is somewhat misleading, though, and requires a bit of clarification.

At first glance, it would appear that you'd be able to post up to four (or eight) poems to the site every 24 hours--and this can, indeed, be the case, provided you are very careful not to leave any typos or other errors in your poem, which might require its modification after it's been posted! The reason for this is that, should your poem require editing after posting, you will be resubmitting it after making your corrections--just as if it were a new poem--and thus you will be using another of the finite number of posts you are allowed daily. (This can be a bit frustrating.)

If you're anything like me, you could use an infinite number of posts to edit, modify, correct, and improve your poems to your satisfaction before final submission! But, alas, this is the real world, and every website is set up differently. So, always preview your work before submitting, to be sure your formatting is the way you want it and your work contains no typos. (Occasionally, you'll miss something and need to resubmit--we're all human--but at least you'll know that you aren't wasting most of your posts simply correcting errors!)

Another important point about formatting, while we're on the subject: At Creative-Poems, the default setting--for both poetry submissions and member comments--is centered. So, if you want your poem or comment to be left-margin justified (which is generally my personal preference) you'll need to select your text--if it's already been entered--and click the appropriate icon. (You can also simply click this icon before entering your text with the same effect.) Both regular and premium members may save, for later posting, up to five drafts in addition to the four (or eight) poems they may post in a 24-hour period, in case they aren't quite ready to post their work when they must leave the site.)

With a little prior knowledge of the workings of this site and the obstacles you might encounter there, you can be well on your way to showcasing your work to the world!

Creative-Poems.com is a great community of friendly poets, who will help encourage you along the path of self-expression through that magical medium: Poetry!