Honestly, the things people say about TDE have always seemed exaggerated and overblown to me (with deference to Julie’s point about the treatment of women, which the blindness of privilege allowed me not to notice, but which in hindsight I don’t doubt).
The critiques were less “harsh” than they were thorough. It always seemed collegial enough to me, and the whole EfH thing definitely seemed overblown — I usually found Alan’s crits to be constructive and instructive, and no more likely to cause “wounds” than anyone else’s. But that was five years in, and maybe things had changed a lot by then already.
When I was last posting poems here regularly, I had migrated from TDE to Met because more people were posting in met by then (for whatever reasons) and thus that was a more likely place to get helpful feedback.
David R.
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