WORKSHOPS FOR FORMAL POETRY
I want to suggest to the students I'm to speak to on April 19th that before submitting poems it would be wise for them to workshop them. I feel that for me personally The Sonnet Board is the only...
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Eratosphere is no different from here interms of requirements, but it can be more toxic. Gazebo is the high-quality workshop of the Alsop Review, and it has a Formal Poetry board--although it's...
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Eratosphere has a requirement that a new member must post fifteen critiques of the work of others before posting his or her own first poem for critique. It's strictly enforced. There's also a rule of...
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I don't really want to bad-mouth Eratosphere on our site. I cannot, however, recommend it.
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Poet and Critic (poetandcritic.yuku.com) is another all-formal board; the population's small but the ability level is high, and they all have experience dealing with beginners. The Critical Poet is...
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Poet and Critic is a pretty good place for beginners, but it lacks critical mass as people get better. The Critical Poet was promising for a while, but it's poorly moderated and not what it used to be.
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Many thanks, all of you, for your help, not just on this thread, but so many other times and ways. Margaret
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There was a dust-up at Critical Poet and they have a new site now: http://www.criticalpoet.com/index.php It gets a lot of traffic, is eclectic and caters for a range of abilities. Welcoming and not...
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Where Dr. Whup-Ass's Bitch-Ass Poetry Round-Up is concerned, there are no particular requirements for joining, though five crits before the first post are required. And while the board tilts...
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I was active at the Gazebo briefly. (I didn't know they had a formal poetry section. Maybe they didn't at the time.) Stylistically it was a bad fit for me: not only were they pretty much opposed to...
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Michael Juster wrote: The Critical Poet was promising for a while, but it's poorly moderated and not what it used to be. Michael--Perhaps you're mistaking criticalpoet.com for criticalpoet.org, which...
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