[Claudia Gary]

Julie,

For whatever it's worth, this sort of thing happened to me once (I'm assuming you mean extended family members who are on the young side): a snarky and ad-hominem "review" was posted to a YouTube video of one of my songs. I tried countering it with a serious question requiring musical knowledge to answer, and the attacker never darkened my YouTube channel again (as far as I know). You might try that re: poetical knowledge.

Good luck!

Claudia