Poetry.com is a domain name that has historically been used for poetry-sharing in various forms. History Before March 7, 2009, the domain name Poetry.com was owned by New Catalyst Fund (NCF). The site was previously run by a Maryland-based company called The International Library of Poetry, also known as the International Society of Poets and the International Poetry Hall of Fame. Poetry.com claimed to coordinate monthly poetry contests and other services through its website, though the actual competitive nature of these contests was disputed. The site's ostensible primary purpose was publication of poetry anthologies submitted by aspiring authors and poetry conventions hosted by the group. The Better Business Bureau of Greater Maryland classified the business as a vanity publisher and noted that the quality of the poetry submitted to them "does not appear to be a significant consideration for selection for publication." On March 7, 2009, Lulu.com purchased the Poetry.com domain from NCF. (Publish Today and Noble House Publishing, the branches of Poetry.com that managed the publishing and printing of their books, subsequently went out of business.) Lulu renamed the site Lulu Poetry. They targeted it to poets who wanted to connect with their peers, to seek reviews and feedback, and to receive recognition, contest prizes and publishing assistance. In April 2011, Poetry.com was purchased by a New York-based group of private investors (Scott Tilson, Jeffrey Franz) from Lulu.com for undisclosed terms. The investors aimed to create an Internet-based creative social expression service, with the first acquisition being Poetry.com. In April 2012, Poetry.com was launched with 14 million archived poems, and reviews of poems were guaranteed in 60 minutes or less by the active community. By 2015, it had become a free-to-use site for amateur poets, where poets submitting to Poetry.com granted the site "royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right (including any moral rights) and license to use, license, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, communicate to the public, perform and display the content (in whole or in part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, for the full term of any Rights that may exist in such content." In April 2018, Poetry.com went offline without explanation. In January 2021, Poetry.com was brought back online after the domain was acquired by STANDS4. Criticism Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of