Poetry.com is one of the largest poetry sites on the Net. It has approximately 6 million amateur poets in their database and with more coming. In this site, you can submit your original poets and win prizes and rewards. They have daily, monthly and annually contests. "The Free Poetry Contest" and "The Free Poets Choice" is judged by their editors while "Rate My Poem" contest is voted on by other poets worldwide. The "Haiku" contest is a daily event! Prizes range from an ipod Shuffle to US$10,000.

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Poets.org is the official website of Academy of American Poets. What they offer to their visitors is a huge database of poems, essays and interviews of poets and even audio versions of poems. Their forums are full of people who are interested in poetry as well. You can sign up for their newsletter to get the latest happenings on Poets.org features or any updates there. This newsletter will also inform their readers about new poems and essays available. Or just use their RSS Feeds! They even have a podcast.

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