All Poetry

There is an evil website called allpoetry.com
It promotes homosexual poets. It encourages explicit homosexual poetry. It is sickening.
It also encourages demon worship, occult practices, pornography and other perversions.

It claims to be a site for poets to exhibit their works.
But in reality it is promoted by those who hate God.
It has moderators who are against Christ.
These moderators keep a watch on the members of their site to see if anyone
Is 'rocking the boat' (or causing what they call 'civil unrest' in the 'community').

The problem is that sincere Christians who happen to join that 'community' cannot
Help but protest at the evil that is going on there.
There are, of course, other 'christians' who are so stupid and shallow as
To close their eyes to the perversions practiced on that site.
But if you happen to protest, then you are banned.

No Christian worth his or her salt should be on that site.
There are other poetry sites you can wish to join, but never All Poetry.
It is one of the most evil, devilish sites on the Internet.

Any Christian found on that site is under a curse from God.
This is my sincere warning to Christians to spread the word
That they should stop associating with websites that promote evil and
Perversions such as homosexuality, pornography and demon worship.

[Note: Mr Kevin, from his response will show you that he is totally anti-Christian. He says he supports all types of sexual orientations; I suppose that includes bestiality, scatology, child molestation and other types of 'sexual orientations'. This evil Fagin presides over a truly demonic site. I warn Christians again: Beware of AllPoetry! It is one of the most evil sites on the Internet!]

This is one of the finest sites for racial/homophobic/plagiaristic/sadistic/bored-gaslighting trolls to hangout and tune their poetic crafts. Or maybe that's just the people who run the site?
Genuine members (who dont pay) are very quickly disposed of by means of cruel gaslighting/catfishing techniques that run rampant throughout.
Very creepy DMs are sent to you, and then are quickly deleted never to be seen again. Only site officials have those abilities to interfere with your personal profile? And any complaint (report/ticket) made to guides, or to Kevin, will only lead you on a path of eyerolling ridiculousness.
The syrupy niceties that Kevin (the owner) disgorges are about as fake as AnnD's willingness to help. The double standards are ironic. So is Kevin's insistence that plagiarism doesn't take place on his site. Liar liar pants on fire.

This is not a poetry site - This is a slum-factory that preys on its members in a multitude of creepy undertones. It should be called Bait & Switch, or something of that nature. CREEPY site.

Beware the smiling cats.

I've been a member of the site since June 2004. Yes, there have been some issues overtime, some dealing with upgrades, but if you submit a ticket properly, the moderators and/or the site owner fixes the problem. Yes, there are some "wannabes" and "bashers" on there who enjoy causing trouble and who have nothing to offer but drama. There are also a great many VERY talented people who are there to share their poetry and interact in a positive manner. I've found that in most situations, you get what you give. I've never been "ripped off", but I did have a problem with a stalker that just wouldn't behave himself in a decent manner and ultimately, he was banned. I'd say most of the negative remarks came from people who didn't venture beyond their own circle of friends. I have told a lot of people about the site over the years. If you are serious about improving your writing and enjoying the creations of many other talented people, this is still the best website for doing so. There's been a lot more emphasis lately on being a poetic community and a social site, but no one forces you to participate. I have a lengthy list of very good writers that I constantly refer new members to, as they are the people I read the most for my own inspiration. They are all REAL people with a lot to offer, but yes, just like every other site, there are a few bad apples. The site has an "ignore" feature that keeps troublemakers off of your pages. I met my husband through this site - although he is no longer active on AP, we both post on Blogspot and have other venues in which to share our creativity with others. As the saying goes, you can't please all of the people all of the time - yet this site is not the big, bad wolf that some have insinuated with their remarks. If you are a negative person, you're guaranteed to have nothing but negative experiences no matter where you go.

I've been a member of StoryWrite/AllPoetry for going on ten years in a few months time. I started on this website in high school, while the chatterbox feature was always full and the social element of the site was easier to break into. Being easier to break into different circles, I was able to receive comments and feedback from a range of poets and writers. I would build friendships and my experience was really enjoyable.
I purchased a Lifetime Gold Membership, back when this feature was available and it wasn't a monthly subscription option. When the site updated a few years ago I lost that membership, after writing a message to Kevin it was swiftly corrected and I've never had an issue since then.

Now days the site feels quieter, the updates to the platform made socialising and connecting with other writers and poets harder. Making friends and securing an audience now feels impossible, since most of the old members I would talk to have left over the years. I still log in every day that I can, I lead a large collection of small groups that are used for collaborative world building exercises, however the members within these groups are personal friends from the good old days.

While I don't doubt that StoryWrite/AllPoetry is busy, and receives many visits from web traffic, considering I can monitor the views on my work I do know I get a lot of silent consumers and not many comments anymore. I do also feel alienated and would assume that new writers may find the site hard to navigate or connect with.

As for prices, my family purchased my membership as a gift for a birthday and I personally don't have to pay for it, however I do find that the cost is rather high for a gold membership, it's a little more than I pay for my Netflix account, and I feel the only change for the kind of account is the ability to use rich text editing and add photographs and start your own groups. However, I never got the free t-shirt that is part of the newer offer as I joined the membership program before the offer was available, it's a decent gift for the money, I just wish there were some other perks.

I'd love to see this site as big and busy as it once felt, I'm not going anywhere any time soon, but I do still like to reminisce.

@Marty N. You actually used the word heroic to describe kevin? Dudes a $#*!ing creep. The whole thing is pay to post. The merchandise is crap. The whole thing is just twitter with poetry attempted as a twist. Way too easily accessed by predators whom use gold membership to curry favor with the "staff." Alot of bots. Also they have some "algorithm," for autoranking based on word usage that is actively destroying classic rhyming poetry in favor of kevins biasedly favored free verse poetry, as well as discouraging and destroyong creativity. The site to me is a free tool to post items i dont wish to lose, and i get around the pay to post pardigm by responding to comments i get on my posts. And yes I see plagiarism, alot of it. Have personally been harrassed by many online stalkers which the "staff" refuse to do anything about, and have been even harassed by the staff for not buying a membership. Am currently working on hamdwriting what poems I wish to keep and will be deleting my account here. $#*!s a joke. Tried to say this with 0 rating but 1 is minimal. -10 of 5

I have been a paying members for a few years. ("Lyptus")
Good:
- A well organized place to store and display your poetry, for others to visit. It links well to social media.
- There are a lot of very fine poets using the site. I feel I have learnt a lot from their writing. There is also beginners and lesser quality poetry; but folk have to start somewhere.
- There are a lot of volunteer leaders of help/learn/appreciate groups, often focusing on particular styles. I have benefitted from those as would any beginner poet.
- Like any site there are the occasional unpleasant person. But I have not encountered real nastiness or disrespect. On the contary many I meet are really nice people, like a lot of poets are.
- I could download all my work when I wanted to, having to wait a few days.
- It includes collections of all genres and past poets too.
Could be better:
- Reviewing is not to the fore (though there are arranged groups for more concentrated review by others) but I think the more you give the more you receive.
I am only an intermittent reviewer, as many are. I think Kevin does his best to encourage more reviewing. I'm not sure this is a fault of the site actually.

- Some find the "autorank" algorithm a bit simplistic, but it is a rough help to me, a point of departure of review of what you have done. I certainly don't think it is perfect (AI and poetry interface?) But when I use the autorank on my poems it roughly does get the quality ranking in order imo.
Summary:
I wrote this because I think some of the negativity listed about the site is over the top and not my expereince. It is a good site. It is not a professional poetry review level of place but I would recommend it for the above reasons.

A couple of weeks ago I discovered that All Poetry had used without permission three of my translations (with Andrea Christofidou) from Karyotakis. I e-mailed them, and received a somewhat evasive reply from Kevin Watt. I responded by repeating my request that they be taken down, as they broke copyright law, but (rather overgenerously, as I now think) gave permission for them to use four translations that have already been published in journals. I received no reply to that, and I find that the translations are still there (one of the four for which I gave permission has a link under Karyotakis, but it points to a blank page, and claims to be "a poem by Amunet Wolfbane", "Written with peter j. King and andrea christofidou".

I've now sent another, less friendly, e-mail, giving seven days before I start the legal process; as one of my colleagues is a specialist in intellectual copyright law, this is easier (and cheaper) for me than for most people, who would probably not feel able to take things that far.

[The site did eventually take down the translations, I'm happy to report -- though the translation that I gave them permission to use still has no publication acknowledgement, as I'd asked.]

[Further up-date: The site owner has now replied, with a dishonest account of what happened (as my original review makes clear, I didn't wait only twenty-four hours between my complaint and writing the review), and without having noticed that I had indeed up-dated my review to acknowledge that the copyright violations had been taken down (albeit accompanied by further problems).

I'd strongly recommend against having anything to do with this site.]

Oh yes I know why he lie's to everyone so he doesn't look bad him self but to make others look bad when he copied Maya Angelo poetry word for word up on his site but listed under old poetry on ap so yes he should be charged with plagiarized work him self instead of saying others on his site is doing like CureChiari that was on his site but she died about a year or over a year ago now thanks to all the harassment from the site that's what I've been hearing on site from so many others on site then yes you learn so much on site but you do learn how to copyright others work that's it because most work on ap isn't work that belongs to you it belongs to so many others that was written so long ago in history and from child hood even when people was in school as well but still the only way to back your self is to make sure you have hard copies with your actual name and dates on them then ap can't cliam them as there's or some one else's no way no how sorry because I am a lawyer and make sure it has all this and no one can claim it as there's it doesn't matter if shows up online with a fake signature on it as there's ap or no one claim it but you as long as you have this so play it smart and before placing anything up on ap or any other sites please make sure own this have a blessed day and for ap stop bashing people and stop hating on the disabled people and saying you all don't copyrigth things because in fact Kevin watt does by the Author and poet it Maya Angelo and yes he will lie or take it down so no one will find it

Amazingly pernicious social media site disguised a poetry critiquing center. If taken seriously, it can be an informative tool for writing improvement, and a perfect window into the minds of some of the craziest A-holes on earth, which is valuable information to a writer so long as you don't buy into their crap. While the contests feel like they are more about popularity than quality, they can at least be a tool to gage what can work subjectively. The autorank algorithm is good for people who are incredibly bad at poetry because it convinces them they are losers, or turns them into lost rebels. It openly tells new users NOT to rhyme, which is horribly discouraging for all of the right monetary reasons: no ones gives a crap about rhyming, or anything musically vital to language because most readers are rhythmless, tone deaf simpletons anyway. If you are honest with yourself, you can commit to the chore of weeding through who understands what or who is actually professional and use them to your advantage, it's all valuable information to exploit.

It is an addictive nightmare for egotistical escapists and bipolar schizophrenics alike. Your pathetic life will collapse around you as you feebly try to keep up with comments, notifications, and contest results while obsessively improving writing styles, molding you into a resentful cynic who likes to flirt with black widows. You'll spend every other day taking mental dumps, whittling chunks of mental cow pie for hours to tediously craft amateur poems about revenge and suicide. You'll crave square's of toilet paper while drowning in this site's untreated sewage. Each of the million other user's fecal matter will burn like hydrochloric acid in your blood to the point where you are convinced mediocrity is in your DNA.

Allpoetry recklessly preys upon fools who think they have a good shot at writing good from the get-go, like Gertie the Dinosaur innocently swallowing trees with colonies of squirrels still trapped inside. It is a sadistic masterpiece of 21st Century social media, unmatched in the writing world. Would definitely recommend.

Yes i do know for a dam fact jack that AP does use others poetry as their own because curechiari didn't because curechiari has been dead almost a year now dumbasses her family has been on these sites posting under name not her because she is indeed dead in fact she dead and cold six feet under the cold hard ground if you would like to call a plagiarism or copyright well he'll go ahead because curechiari wasn't because the FBI on AP has seen to many people copying others work that belongs to famous writers that was used and put into there own dam words then AP has the balls to ban meggie and Listen 2 Ya and Poetic justice for a whole year without no warning of the ban or nothing at all this came shortly after curechiaris death and when her family was upset because people was saying this madness that she is or was a plagiarism well let me say up front by gosh she was because she worked the local news paper in our town and so much more and gave her newly published books out about AP and BillyJo/mussed Dee on AP site because her husband sure there out so y'all call it what you will and the truth is out and may say still there's still and FBI agent on the site of AP dummies because just waiting and printing all poetry off AP to send in to have checked make sure it actually belongs to got it!