Incandescence

DD-- How is it you are setting up your problem? Take the curve y=x^2, y=0, and y=1. You should see that the volume you are solving for is a (funky-shaped) ...

Poor Imp -- Piers stumbled through Transport’s myriad pathways, side-turns, pavements marked fadingly in numbers. Trans vo. 170 wound east, back turn blind. Huh? Back turn blind? He avoided it, ...

Lycanstyle01-- The feedback you have received here is solid, and I can add nothing to it. It is only natural that, as beginners, we take great pride in our works. ...

Snoinkums-- I also think (as has been mentioned countless times) that it's silly to argue with people who critique your poem or when you have, as they say down here ...

The question is on the table: how does one properly criticize a poem? The question has been responded to many times and will, for at least another millenia (or until ...

*sigh* Houston is such a depressing city, but I still love it... Yup, walking around the catacombs. Oh yeah...this is my scene. Soy un perdedor! What what? Three feet? I ...

Boys-- While this conversation is worth maintaining in terms of content, this is not the place to do it. I suggest taking your quibble to Poetry Discussion. Thanks, Brad

fanatic dadaism-- I recommend you to study how I respond to criticism, because I am a paragon in that respect. I post the most wonderful, imaginative work, that people would ...

Hi green_river - Let me be candid with you--after your first meager attempts at poetry and your response to the criticisms you received, I suspected you would either continue posting ...

From time to time on one Internet poetry board or another, a swirl of commiserative ill-will erupts among slighted 'Internet poets'. Invariably, a print journal has been more dismissive of ...

Having the reputation as the "harshest critic" on the YWS is no easy task. As it were, I think some kind of forum for facilitating the discussion of critiques that ...

Dear TheEccentricScribe - You want to write a poem that speaks to you. Your readers want to read a poem that speaks to them, one that opens the possibility of ...

Chandni - It's a pleasant scene suffering from an overdose of purple imagery and an absense of direction. At the end, the reader says, "and ...?" re: "...beneath our melancholic ...

Tropicana-- This is incoherent and (from what I could discern) meaningless junk. It wanders from a cup of coffee to what's on the radio without any recourse for either of ...

writingluver5 - Rework the conclusion (absent right now) and this will be vastly improved. While you're at it, take a careful look at S2 and compare it to the other ...