Published poet or international scam?

[MyCat8Toto]

Hello, I am new to this forum...new to the Cellar actually.
I found the Sycamore Manifestos page while doing some snooping about "Noble House". At first i was confused, i thought this Sycamore Manifestos thing was behind the letter because everything i looked up about the addresses or the name lead back here...needless to say I was a little pissed when i found out that 2 Harrington Road in London was an English equivalent to our own Mailboxes Etc...nothing more that a place for mail to go. London office my A**.

Anyway, I was kind of releaved and yet disapponted when i actually came back and started reading the threads. Looks liek half the world got letters from Noble House wanting to publish thier poetry. Liek every aspiring poet i wanted to feel special becasue i was "chosen". Yeah right. I think Poetry.com is behind this, i bought one of there "fine quality" books with my poem in it and it sucked...crappy quality and frankly i was ashamed to show that to my family so i hid it in a trunk. and haven't bought anything from them since. I still post my work on thier site casue well, you never who might opo in a read it but... Anyway, i think this Noble House thing is poetry.coms sly attempt to coerse a bunch of people in to forking over $48 for yet another crappy book. Doesn't it seem odd the the UK is selling copies of the books for the same price poerty.com asks for theirs?

anyway i guess i will stick to real poetry contests...like the one the Boston Review does. For those of you interested here are the details:

Sixth Annual Poetry Contest
Deadline: June 1, 2003
First Prize: $1,000
Judge: Richard Howard

Complete guidelines:The winning poet will receive $1,000 and have his or her work published in the October/November 2003 issue of Boston Review. Submit up to five unpublished poems, no more than 10 pages total. Manuscripts must be submitted in duplicate, with a cover note listing the author's name, address, and phone number; names should not be on the poems themselves. Simultaneous submissions are allowed if the Review is notified of acceptance elsewhere. Submissions will not be returned. A $15 entry fee, payable to Boston Review must accompany all submissions. Submissions must be postmarked no later than June 1, 2003. All entrants will receive a one-year subscription to Boston Review, beginning with the October/November 2003 issue. Winner will be announced no later than October 1, 2003, on the Review's Web site, http://bostonreview.mit.edu. Send entries to:

Poetry Contest
Boston Review
E53-407 MIT
Cambridge, MA 02139