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Hey all,

Does anyone know if there’s a way to make separate stanzas in poems submitted on this website? I think all of my submission problems stem from trying to have separate stanzas.

Thanks,
Jacob

Posted by Jacob on 16 January 2010 @ 2pm

Congratulations to the winners for January 2010! That’s great! Also if anyone knows how to change your home address on the site please let me know! Happy 2010!!

Posted by Holly on 17 January 2010 @ 7pm

I finally have some of my poems from a month ago rated with more than one rating. How come they are not showing up on the leaders page? I see other poems showing up with only 1 rating.

Posted by rmilewsk on 18 January 2010 @ 4am

Hi Jacob,
You can enter make separate stanzas for your poem just by hitting the enter/return key and creating line breaks. I just tested it in Firefox and Safari and was able to submit a new poem with multiple stanzas.
Thank you,
Annie

Posted by Annie on 18 January 2010 @ 1pm

Hi Holly,
Lulu Poetry does not have a place to store your home address information.

If you would like to update any of your other account information (email, paypal bio, password, etc), you can do so by:
1. log in
2. click the blue “account” link at the top right of the page
3. click the orange “edit” button
4. change your information
5. click the orange “save” button

Thank you,
Annie

Posted by Annie on 18 January 2010 @ 1pm

Hi rmilewsk,
I’m glad to hear that your poems are getting rated. The Daily leaderboard updates every day and shows the top rated poems from the day before (so on Tuesday you will see poems that were rated on Monday). It will only show on the board the day after your poem has been rated, and only the top percentage of poems are shown on the leaderboard since we have hundreds of poems submitted and rated every day. Poems that show on the leaderboard more than one day in a row have been rated more than one day in a row as well.

Thank you,
Annie

Posted by Annie on 18 January 2010 @ 1pm

Hey Annie,

I finally discovered the source of all of my problems with submitting poems. I had been writing poems and copy->pasting them into the text box, rather than typing them directly. This is something you guys might want to either look into fixing or advertise, but thanks for all of the help and support.

-Jacob

Posted by Jacob on 18 January 2010 @ 9pm

Please I need feed back on these poems if anyone would mind reading over them, thanks

Posted by jamie on 19 January 2010 @ 12pm

You can cry underwater your tears are merely hidden.

Posted by Online Degree on 20 January 2010 @ 10pm

I’ve copied / pasted many times from notepad without any problems. It’s probably the program you are using that is causing the issues.

Posted by rmilewsk on 21 January 2010 @ 4am

Hey! This is a really cool site, and very inspirational! I even entered the poetry contest!

I was hoping you would take a look at my site: http://www.a-poem-a-day.co.nr/

The idea is that I post a poem everyday, and I would really appreciate any feed back, comments, thoughts, criticism, etc you have on my poetry! I’m not that great, but I’m hoping to improve.. And with your help, I can!

Posted by Psychotic Poet on 21 January 2010 @ 4pm