I've been away for a week and didn't notice that Erik had just passed the crit mark. I apologize for that; didn't mean to seem to be pressuring him.

However, my post is amiable so why the expressed fear that (as I interpret it) Erik is being hounded and will leave soon. For what it is worth (or isn't), Erik and I have had private communication (BEFORE it was demanded of me in an earlier thread to apologize) and as far as I know we are on friendly terms. I have certainly made it clear to him that I welcome him to the critting fields, and he responded graciously.

Like Ann, I can see good intentions behind the crits and recognize that both time and thought have been devoted to them, but like Ross, I wondered if English might be a second language.

However, we are all adults here, and poets do not run away from criticism. They run forward and embrace it if they find it useful. Or they ignore it, if they think they know better.

Posting in the wrong place isn't the worst thing a new member can do. Even old members do it, have done it, and will continue to do it. Alert moderators can fix that faster than you can pronounce synecdoche.

Kerfuffle, indeed!

(Should I write YOKE somewhere in the above, or maybe insert a smiley or two? Just to show that I'm a friendly?)

Erik -- Your personal link has been edited out since Eratosphere is not intended to be used as a vanity link farm. That's also why personal signatures have been disabled from showing, and posting your personal link anyways to circumvent this is not proper conduct here.

The type of links allowed at General Announcement (or very sparingly if at all at General Talk) are those of a public nature as in reputable poetry conferences or contests, or similar. Or you may post announcements of acceptance or publication of your work in a literary journal or anthology, etc. at Accomplished Member (other than self-publication, which is not really an accomplishment!).

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