[W T Clark]

Hello,
I am aware that one should message a mod before posting a poem in the critique sub-forums, but I do not know if that applies to General Talk. If so I apologise in advance for my ignorance.

I am a member of poetry free-for-all and obviously a new member of Eratosphere, and I was wondering (because I just love workshops that much!) if there are any other poetry forums of a similar quality still active on the web.
It saddens me that I am a few years too late to join poets.org or Gazebo, and now they are both inactive. M.A. Griffiths and other great internet poets have either died or wandered away and I am ashamed that I never got to meet such poets online, but we're moving away from the point.
So, I was just wondering if there were any workshops with a similar quality of critique to pffa and Eratosphere still online. There doesn't seem to be, but please tell me if you know of any!
Regards,
Cameron Clark

[Jayne Osborn]

No, there aren't any poetry workshops as good as Eratosphere, Cameron. But I would say that, wouldn't I?

But seriously, I know of plenty of other crappy sites that I wouldn't go near! How much time do you have on your hands, I'm wondering, if you want to join other sites. (Quality, not quantity?) It's good to build up a relationship with the lovely people here - honestly, I have made a lot of really great friends on both sides of The Pond, through being a member here.

But others may know of places you could try... forgive my light-hearted treatment of your question.

Jayne

[W T Clark]

Jayne,
Thank you. A fluctuating amount of time. It's less that I want to jump on 7 forums all at the same time and more out of curiosity at the state of Internet forums. I hear there were four back in the day, and now there's only about two.

Eratosphere is really cool, I'm enjoying it here!

[Jack Land]

Deleted August 1st.

[W T Clark]

Why/when did Gazebo stop/fail? Why are there only two (erato and pffa) when there once was four? Where has everyone gone: Griffiths (sadly dead), Alsop (sadly dead) peter J. ross, kristalo, others who I am not aware of? It still confuses me.

[R. Nemo Hill]

Time passes.
Everything changes.

Nemo

[W T Clark]

The indomitable truth, Nemo.
But still, I wonder at the specific reasons for the closure of poets.org and The Gazebo forums.

[Roger Slater]

"I am aware that one should message a mod before posting a poem in the critique sub-forums"

Huh? Where did you get that idea?

[Jack Land]

Deleted July 11

[W T Clark]

Roger
I believe I got the idea that a new member is expected to message a moderator before posting their first poem in a workshop forum from the rules/guidence for new members.
Please inform me if that has changed.