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So. It's certainly been a while. This is stunning. I'll take it as a whole - The atmosphere is extraordinary, well-crafted and powerful. I want to see this in a ...

The simplicity reminds me of Kooser's work. It's really quite something -- encapsulating a single idea, a single theme, a single trajectory in a poem -- much like the linear ...

Jesus, Gal. I haven’t felt more disinterested by your work before. I actually haven’t felt more shut out by any piece of writing before, and I’ve read some fairly doorslam-in-the-face ...

I like you when you're at your most frank, sincere; I think that is when words sing to me the most, stripped of such cumbersome prerequisites like poeticism or imagery ...

Glorious thinking. The best essays are those left unfinished -- we must speak further on this one. I see so many of our conversations running through this -- a product ...

Seph, Why are you writing this? What do you want me to get out of it? I mean that as an entirely open, curious question. I've seen this style; tried ...

Attolia, I remember this. God, it feels just like yesterday I was looking over chapter one, and two, and three...and I'm not sure where you ended on here. And you're ...

Oh, yes. Timing wise, this assures me that you can do it. Forget the obviousness of the metaphor -- look at the poem, visually. See how that makes you read ...

Oooh, getting the claws out are we, MMM? :P You were right on a few counts: that this is lyrical, and that the reader-text connection is somewhat muted (perhaps as ...

Ah, Persephonia? You've gotten better. Going to disagree with Kamas here, for the most part. Here's what your title gives us: Havisham Dancer. It only takes two words -- as ...

Short and sweet, just the way a pocket poem is meant to be. And it encompasses a whole lifetime within it, within the single metaphor -- very Ted Kooser-ish. I ...

OH YES. I do so love to see the same poem refracted, sprung off from, reshaped, deconstructed, reconstructed. This is what Kylan has since shown me is the highest form ...

This is obviously going to win. Best cowrite I've read yet. Also -- who are you and what have you done with the real Galerius. Critique to come once I ...

Okay, cut the convention-vs-experimentation drama for a second. A few things I need to point out to you: [1.] All art is based on a constant flux between chaos and ...

CUTTING UP RED BELL PEPPERS. I remember that. :P When you're hitting flow just right, there's something else you need to keep in mind: whether what you're saying actually sings. ...