Ed, Roger,
I also found out about the Sphere through a recommendation on another forum.
Since all the workshopping fora are now essentially hidden from Google I don't think anyone will be stumbling across posted poems whilst googling these days, so password protection wouldn't affect new members finding the site in that respect.
Michael,
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Originally Posted by Michael Juster
I believe that critique is far more important to poets than just tweaking meter. Many times we get too close to our original vision & can't see that the poem on the page is different than the poem in our head. Also, we have many psychological defenses that push us toward the easy poem rather than the poem that is honest but hurts to write.
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I am in complete agreement. These are the reasons I find peer critique so valuable.
-Matt