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Originally Posted by Allen Tice
Well, I evolved too recently to recall any previous spontaneous poem posts, but, while I have just very recently actually "workshopped" a poem to a bright sheen, it occurs to me that putting up something one is pretty happy with might be a good idea too, since a good no one sees our faults like others do.
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The problem is that it is contrary to the purpose of workshopping to post something you view as being "complete." That way lies "vanity" posts...
I'm sure that if many of the greatest poems of the past few centuries were posted in a workshop, they'd receive a bevy of suggested changes. Which is fine, of course, but the buck stops with the poet's happiness with his or her work. For the sake of artistic integrity, that has to be the final litmus test.