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My thinking is much like Michael. I have poems that start strong and wither. Or just seem lose their way somehow. However, I really wouldn't want to ask someone to come up with a long explanation of where a poem could go. I think the poet should try to focus on the malfunction, what she's hoping to do - in response I wouldn't expect anything more than a some quick hit ideas, ideas to break the logjam, help the writer think in a different direction. Brainstorming.
If you all think it's a worthwhile idea, I think it should be as easy and quick to use as possible. Real criticism should be reserved for the usual forums. Terry |
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Alex is the one who will have to decide whether there's actually a call for a new forum, and how we tell whether there is.
Creating new boards is something we've certainly done before, but there is some work involved. How would we test whether there's enough critical mass to warrant this without doing all the work up front? Can we drum up the additional staff? We've already got several boards that are too quiet for too long. Those are my reasons for disfavoring the whole-new-board solution. |
Well, I'm kind of with Michael (et al.) on this. My biggest problem has been determining what level my poems should be at before I workshop them here, and I seem to guess wrong more often than not... I figure that work one is completely happy with shouldn't be posted, even though there is always value in getting other perspectives. By that same token, work that one thinks is not very good shouldn't be posted either, for obvious reasons. But work that has a spark in it, but needs a lot of coaxing...well, maybe there's merit to the idea of a forum for that kind of work. I know that I, for one, have a shoebox full of those!
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Seriously, I cannot figure out what kind of intensive care is lacking in the forums we have. We give Tough Love on promising but awful texts, we put support bandages on slipped metrics, we give plastic toys and jokes when a shot hurts a lot, and gold stars on your discharge when the poem is real good. We have Bitter Medicine. And sometimes a well-meaning critter will give you sugar-coated pills. |
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Come on, let's work on it: Workshop poets spurn the bums' mattresses Outside, passenger planes again disgorge the trapped of bad mood, hog-sounds, read-wroth: God, what an airy translator with her empty doggerel stunt, comes over like eye-dreck refuse written in surly-skewed letters, that the fans feel her anguish in kind. let's drown the old bore, or gang-haul through window: grant light from darkness |
My bad, for misleading you, Skip. But Terry has put up a serious request for a serious discussion and his thread is being high-jacked.
Mea culpa. My apologies for being frivolous and leading members astray. |
No, no, you are one of the nicest multifaceted ladies on this board. I was just bored with nothing to contribute, and when I give in to that feeling, I get silly and reckless.
Why everyone hasn't finally banded together to protest my inadequacies, is either because I stay away long enough not to bother with, or, like you, the members are just too nice for such drastic remedial action. |
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