Incandescence

CL-- Just a thought: people come together because they have a common enemy. I share the same taste in nuts as many, many people do; that doesn't mean we have ...

Snoinkums-- Fortunately, we are not critics. Critics exist for published work, fortunately enough for us. We are mentors. And this is why I have "repeat[ed] it in sixteen different threads ...

Sureal, A critic's role is not to offer support. It is to point out where a piece needs work and, if the critic so pleases, how that might be accomplished. ...

Grif & lillizard: I was unaware we are also a site for emotional counseling. The site is here for young writers to congregate--this is obvious. What is not so obvious ...

Snoinkuddy-- Relevance? It's not that I think you've said something false--I'm just wondering how your response exactly addresses the issues in my first post. I assume you're trying to insinuate ...

Snoink-- This is sort of an ongoing struggle. We're not an affirmation board. We are a writing board--nothing more, nothing less. We are, in a sense, all desperately trying to ...

Snoink-- The words "positive" and "negative" are completely arbitrary, defined by the recipient of the critique. So therefore, writing about "positive" reviews vs. "negative" reviews is pointless, whi

Snoink-- Perhaps so, but I think you should address the points I make instead of my basis for making them. Best, brad

Snoink-- What would you suggest to rename it, since the best phraseology I can come up with is being "positive" versus being "negative"? It would probably help alleviate a lot ...

Poor Imp-- Where we differ is in what you consider "positive." I don't think "positive" or "negative" ought to have any bearing on a critique. People too often personalize criticism, ...

Poor Imp-- This recent push to be positive is based on the assumption that balance means better. I simply can't agree; any response that responds to the work in question ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...