contest winners, new feature announcements

Hi, Annie:

I’m so grateful to have been selected as a winner.

I was hoping you could help me with something. I have not received a notification letter via email regarding the fact that I was a daily contest winner still. The contest rules state I need to respond to this letter. I did send in a message to help@poetry.com but haven’t heard a response. Is there something I can do? The message was not in my spam folder or regular folders and my email address is current in my profile.

Thanks kindly!
-Carrie

Posted by Carrie Watson on 19 September 2009 @ 11pm

hello my name is linda seaver and im anxiously awaitting a response someone is suppose to email me directly it has been sevral days now and im still waitting could you please look into it for me thank you so much linda seaver

Posted by linda seaver on 20 September 2009 @ 2pm

Linda,
You have been sent an email twice to your yahoo account. Please check your spam folder to make sure that the email did not end up in there.
Thank you,
Annie

Posted by Annie on 21 September 2009 @ 8am

Hello,
I have been writing poetry with you and poetry.com
for over 4 years now. Thank you for the opportunity.

I have plenty of poems that I would like to recover That would be in the name of Monique Pocknett or Barboza would you please help me. Also, Perry Campana Andrade Gomes Lopes, Attaquin Jonas Fowler all with Monique as the first name is these are all of my surnames

Posted by Monique Barboza on 21 September 2009 @ 4pm

This has nothing to do with a problem…well actually I emailed the help website and they still haven’t replied to move a few poems I had on the former site to the new one but what I really want is feedback on the poem I do have on here…I don’t expect to win anything I really just want to know what people think…My poem is called Placing Blame but it doesn’t show up if you search it so clicking on my name under this post is probably your best bet if your interested.

Posted by Graham Geiger on 21 September 2009 @ 7pm

Hi Carrie,
Congratulations again on winning the Daily Contest! You should have gotten an email on Friday, Sept. 18th, requesting your paypal information. I will ask a member of our support team to follow up with you directly.
Thank you,
Annie

Posted by Annie on 21 September 2009 @ 8pm

Please check out my poem called Dying Words it is dope!

Posted by Robert Fields on 22 September 2009 @ 1pm

the old poetry.com (that I knew and wrote to for 9 years) was better because ppl could communicate, now you’ve hidden everything and each poet that posts something feels like they only write for themselves and the main page is closed… which leaves only the commercial option to justify this new site – I don’t really need it to write my poems, but maybe a lot more others won’t need it either as soon as they realize they might just as well email the poems instead and it would still be more than this now

Posted by chrysromeo on 22 September 2009 @ 3pm

I cant find all my poems and when I go to help@poetry.com it says it cant find poetry.com?I need to find all my poems and put them together.The old poetry .com was easier to find all my works.

Posted by Wayne Williams on 22 September 2009 @ 4pm

Anybody,

Hey, i just got on this website like 2 daus ago but I have 2 hot poems ready 2 be rated. I need for someone to check me out and theirs plenty more where tthose came from. TRUST ME…

Posted by Robert Fields on 23 September 2009 @ 11am

Dear Carrie Watson,

I’m felling your work, espesialy the poem Fairy Love.

Posted by Robert Fields on 23 September 2009 @ 11am

Dear Annie,

I need help. I can not find my poem anywher in the site. I can only see it in my acconunt. Am I suppose to not see it?

Posted by Robert Fields on 23 September 2009 @ 11am

Thanks for the response. Do you know when I should be expecting someone to follow up with me? I have been checking daily (including spam folder), and have not had a response from my original message sent to the help@poetry.com or anyone sending a follow up as you had mentioned.

Thanks again.
Carrie Watson

Posted by Carrie Watson on 23 September 2009 @ 4pm

I’m sorry this has nothing to do with the topic, but I have no idea how to reach anyone. What happened to all of my poetry from the last poetry.com website? This website had some originals I wrote exclusively for poetry.com. Is there a way to recover them? Why were they removed?

Posted by Amanda on 23 September 2009 @ 10pm

I’m really happy, thank you so much! :]

Posted by Dustin on 24 September 2009 @ 7pm

Carrie,
You were sent an email to your Yahoo account on Sept. 18th and again Sept. 24th. According to our support team, you have since been exchanging emails. So we should be all set now, and you will receive your prize payment on schedule.
Thank you,
Annie

Posted by Annie on 25 September 2009 @ 11am

Hi Everyone,
I do apologize if you are having trouble searching for your work. All of your poems should still be available on Lulu Poetry. With over 14 million poems on Lulu Poetry, our search obviously gives you wide range of results. This is just the first step in our new search, and we will be refining and improving it over the coming weeks.

In the mean time, here is a work around for searching for a specific name. In the search box, enter
full_name:”firstname lastname”

I hope that this trick will help you, while we are working to refine search.

Thank you,
Annie

Posted by Annie on 25 September 2009 @ 4pm

Where are all those people’s poems from poetry.com web-site,including about 25 of mine and one of my son’s joseph beau royal? This is so unfair. People trusted these things with this organazation and now they cannot find thier prescious poems!

Posted by virginia royal on 28 September 2009 @ 10pm

I’m experiencing the same dilemma, folks. Old – maybe worthy, maybe crap – poems that I’ve written over the past 6-7 years are nowhere to be found. In hopes of consolidating and potentially publishing some of this work, I’ve run into the same road block. Contacting the “help” email support has yielded nada. Anybody out there figure a way to retrieve???
Cheers
CyCascade

Posted by Cy Cascade on 4 October 2009 @ 1pm

For the longest time I have been writeing poems I had over 35 poems most published in books.Since it changed to lulu I can not find these poems. I have a link on my myspace for others to view them. I WANT them back and will go as far as getting a lawyer if need be. on poetry.com you did not use your email you just typed your name in author. the names I used were Veronica Linhart and Veronica M. Linhart I expect a email back with a link to my poetry. or I will pursue this further.

Posted by Veronica Linhart on 7 October 2009 @ 11am

Virginia, I found Joseph’s poem but I was not able to find yours based on the information provided. Did you publish under a different name or include a middle initial?

Cy, I found two poems in your name.

Veronica, I found poems listed for you under Veronica Mary Linhart and Veronica M Linhart.

The best way to locate your poems is to visit your profile page. After you log in, click the blue “Account” link at the top right of the page. This will take you to your profile and a list of your poems.

If checking your profile does not return all of your poetry, an easy work around is to copy and paste full_name: “your name” into the search field (be sure to replace your name with the full name you published poetry under and keep the quotation marks), which will pull up all of the poetry listed under the pen name of your poetry. This step will become unnecessary as Lulu Poetry continues to index content and refine the search.

If you were a member of http://www.poetry.com before our site update in August 2009, you will probably need to Claim Your Profile in order to log in.

Thank you,
Annie

Posted by Annie on 8 October 2009 @ 11am

I a pretty upset as well when I just went to revisit my page to find that the new lulupoetry.com site will not even load up on 3 different computers now. Also, you say to claim my account and to log in and his stuff, but I am unable to do anything on the website but search for rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, and etc. The only website that will load for me is the rhyming dictionary page and I can not navigate away from it. Will you please search for Cody Hagin as my name or Cody Ryan Hagin as my full name might work as well, but I am very upset to have lost this poetry. There should only be three on here, but I was young when I wrote them and this is a huge memory for me. I wrote them or my girlfriend when I was 13 and she has passed away, so I am pretty upset. Please find these for me ASAP! Thank you.

Posted by Cody Hagin on 10 October 2009 @ 12pm

i wrote two poems on poetry.com and i can find my poems.

Posted by Dominque on 11 October 2009 @ 6pm

Cody,
Lulu Poetry had an unplanned site outage that began at 12am ET on Oct. 9th. As of 9:15am ET on Monday, Oct. 12th, the site is back up. The problem was related to our firewall- from inside Lulu everything appeared to be working perfectly, but no one outside of Lulu could access the site.

I am extremely sorry for the inconvenience this has caused all of you. We are actively taking steps to increase our external monitoring of the site, so that a situation like this will not happen again.

Your poems can be found here. Please Claim Your Profile to access your poems.

Annie

Posted by Annie on 12 October 2009 @ 10am

Hi, same thing happened to me at first but I have now found all my poems by following the suggestion provided by Annie. That is type into the search – full_name: “your name” into the search field (be sure to replace your name with the full name you published poetry under and keep the quotation marks)

Posted by Xhosa on 14 October 2009 @ 7am

Hi, I am extremely upset about the loss as everyone else is too. I see that you are able to find other peoples poetry, so I am hoping you can please find mine! My name is Julio Cervantes. I know one of the poems is called “Courage” or “It takes a lot of courage”. I can not find it under the title or my name. I am devastated to find out that it might be gone:( Please get back to me asap! Please!

Posted by Julio Cervantes on 1 November 2009 @ 8pm

I cant find any of my old poems. Only a few are on here. Ive used Felicia Pagan and Felicia Dawn Pagan. Where are they?

Posted by Felicia on 12 November 2009 @ 10pm

Im having the same problem with finding my work. I searched my full name and nothing is coming up, there isnt even a search poet option as before. Is all of my work gone forever???? if so i am very disappointed

Posted by Preston on 24 November 2009 @ 4pm

Hi, I also had a number of poems on the old site. Searches for titles and my name has brought up nothing. I am very disappointed as well. I wrote under both Shirl A. Steward and Shirl Steward. I used a different email then. Thanks.

Posted by Shirl A. Steward on 10 January 2010 @ 12am

Okay, I somehow DID find my poems except that the email I used to open this account is no longer accessible. Is there someone to email so I can get my account reactivated. I’d like to log in and make some edits. One of my poems has some numbers on the first line of the poem that don’t belong. I guess they’re from the changeover.

I would like to mention that I had to search for a few dozen words form the poem’s text in order to find them. Your search says I don’t exist but I do. Not a good advertisement for getting people to join up.

Posted by Shirl A. Steward on 10 January 2010 @ 4am

i cant find my poems on here either. can someone write me so i can find them.

Posted by charleen miller on 6 February 2010 @ 6am