Speak up!

[Leanne]

A personal response -- as long as it's not a cut-and-paste job like you'll find on many other forums -- is often just as worthwhile as an in-depth critique, because we write for people. We really appreciate that kind of comment. Having said that, my reasoning is the same as Todd's -- I (almost) never comment the first time I read a poem, and sometimes not even the 21st time. It depends on how long it takes me to digest something properly Especially in Serious Critique, it's important to me that I'm not being swayed just by an emotional response to something.

People who take more than they give are exhausting for us -- but when we get members who understand what it's all about, it makes us crazy happy