01-20-2013, 05:12 AM
The serious critique section is again being bombarded by poems that really don't belong there. Serious Critique is not a place to dump poems that are straight from your head, unedited and not even proof read, that you have no intention of revising. It is not a forum for us to correct spelling and grammar or excise line upon line of hackneyed phrase. When you post in Serious Critique, it is expected that you will have enough technical ability to be able to use feedback judiciously rather than just expecting commenters to help you rewrite your poem. A proper critique in this forum takes upwards of half an hour. It is selfish, unreasonable and unacceptable to expect commenters to take more time on your poem than you did yourself.
To that end, moderators have been instructed to relocate posts out of the Serious Critique forum at their own discretion and place them in one of the more suitable forums. Please do not take this to mean that your poem isn't welcome. Rather, use it as a gentle reminder that poetry is a craft and while we are a workshop, Serious Critique is at the upper end of the assembly line, so to speak. By the time your poem reaches that level it should have already had plenty of work done on it by you, the craftsman. If you then wish to have your poem re-entered in Serious Critique, please revise it and then make the request.
To that end, moderators have been instructed to relocate posts out of the Serious Critique forum at their own discretion and place them in one of the more suitable forums. Please do not take this to mean that your poem isn't welcome. Rather, use it as a gentle reminder that poetry is a craft and while we are a workshop, Serious Critique is at the upper end of the assembly line, so to speak. By the time your poem reaches that level it should have already had plenty of work done on it by you, the craftsman. If you then wish to have your poem re-entered in Serious Critique, please revise it and then make the request.
It could be worse