# Everybody look, I'm published. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 9, 2000, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-look-im-published/12662 "2000-01-09T23:23:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2000, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-look-im-published/12662/1 "2000-01-09T23:23:00Z")
A couple of years ago a poem of mine was published in an Anthology called _A Painted Garden_. I recently recieved a letter stating that they (The International Library of Poetry – not as impressive as it sounds) want to reprint my poem in the new _America at the Millennium_. Yay! Also, the ILoP now has a website. You can view the poems, order the books, etc. To see my poem, either go to [www.poetry.com](http://www.poetry.com) and search for Elizabeth Dykstra (I use my middle name as a nom de plume), or click [here](http://www.poetry.com/Publications/display.asp?ID=P1076590&BN=104&PN=1). * * * [Cessandra](http://www.angelfire.com/tx3/miscjunk/profile.html) The Power Of Christ: 2000 years and He hasn’t come yet! ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_Next\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@Girl\_Next\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_Next_Door)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2000, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-look-im-published/12662/2 "2000-01-09T23:45:00Z")
Congrats, Cess! I read the poem. Very strong. Very evocative. * * * Leslie Irish Evans [http://leslie.scrappy.net](http://leslie.scrappy.net) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2000, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-look-im-published/12662/3 "2000-01-10T03:55:00Z")
Are they paying you? Or at least giving you a copy of the book? * * * “East is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.” – Marx Read “Sundials” in the new issue of Aboriginal Science Fiction. [www.sff.net/people/rothman](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman) ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2000, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-look-im-published/12662/4 "2000-01-11T05:28:00Z")
I’ll be goddamed! I found one of _my_ poems there! I was suckered in to buying a book, too. They still send me letters every now and then about how they were so impressed with my last poem written when I was sixteen, and it’s gawd-awful) that they want to put me in their next book. But I’m not good enough to warrant a free copy. ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2000, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-look-im-published/12662/5 "2000-01-11T08:07:00Z")
Yeah, I know, I know. It’s a scam, but still. I didn’t buy the book and I got my poem in it anyway. * * * [Cessandra](http://www.angelfire.com/tx3/miscjunk/profile.html) The Power Of Christ: 2000 years and He hasn’t come yet! ---
**Author:** ![SoulFrost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@SoulFrost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoulFrost)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2000, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-look-im-published/12662/6 "2000-01-11T14:56:00Z")
Gratz, Cessandra! You are now immortal… -David ---
**Author:** ![Imthecowgodmoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Imthecowgodmoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imthecowgodmoo)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2000, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-look-im-published/12662/7 "2000-01-11T17:12:00Z")
Well kiss my grits! I’m in there too! [Here’s](http://www.poetry.com/Publications/display.asp?ID=P1764748&BN=234&PN=1) my entry. I didn’t get suckered into buying a book though, I just thought I had a chance of winning the a prize (HA! Like I’d win anything!). * * * “People must think it must be fun to be a super genuis, But they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.” – Calvin and Hobbes (\_\_) _/_ ---
**Author:** ![Imthecowgodmoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Imthecowgodmoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imthecowgodmoo)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2000, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-look-im-published/12662/8 "2000-01-11T17:16:00Z")
damn, wrong link. Go [here](http://www.poetry.com/Publications/display.asp?ID=P1764748&BN=234&PN=1) instead. * * * “People must think it must be fun to be a super genuis, But they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.” – Calvin and Hobbes (\_\_) _/_