Read Poems. Post Poems. Get Feedback

Sure, DarkPoetry was originally just a place to post poems and get quality feedback.

But it became much more. In its 14+ years of quiet existence in the underbelly of the internet, DarkPoetry has attracted a diverse corpus of talented poets, conspiring to develop the dark art of the spoken miracle.

Join DarkPoetry (free) and become friends with some truly fascinating people. And you are always welcome to share your poems in this non-judgmental environment.

Many members have asked me about taking the DarkPoetry POE101 poetry class this summer, and I'm now ready to start accepting applications. It is a ten week course, starting with an introductory lesson on June 1st and concluding with a final exam on August 3rd.

Students who complete the course with a grade of 70% or higher earn the coveted DarkPoetry Scholar icon on their comment posts, a special profile badge, and can request an official signed certificate.

No more than 20 students will be admitted. The fee for the class will be DC$30 and should be sent to DarkPoet by Monday, May 21st.

This time the course will be taught by DarkPoet himself and one co-instructor to be revealed soon. Don't wait, the last class filled up fast.

UPDATE: As you probably guessed, this was our April Fool's joke. Sorry if we fooled you! Wait, no, not really!

Dateline April 1, 2012. Ames, IA -

DarkPoetry for sale:
DarkPoetry.com owner Matt Steven is getting out of the web site business, and needs tons of money so he can go to law school and become an environmental lawyer. He has decided to put DarkPoetry on the auction block this summer to help pay for it all.

"DarkPoetry has been great, I met a lot of lifelong friends and even my wife on this site. But there are a lot of headaches involved in running a site like this, and it's not worth it anymore. I'd rather have money. I probably shouldn't have said that, since I'm selling it. Oops," he disclosed.

Further details about the bidding process and decision date will be forthcoming on the DarkPoetry.com web site. --

For many years now, DarkPoetry's free permanent membership has been available to anyone sending DarkPoet a postcard in the mail. We figured if someone is willing to make a special effort to do something a little unusual, they are probably going to treat their free membership with more value than if it was just handed to them.

But that's changing. Postcards actually do cost money, and sending pieces of paper around has a small, but negative environmental impact.

So instead, the path to DP's free permanent membership will soon lie in leaving at least ten quality comments on the works of others. Once that's done, site moderators will review the quality of comments, and approve or deny the "applicant" for permanent membership. This is already in place, and we will be slowly changing the "postcard" stuff throughout the site in the coming month.

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