[split] Mentoring Read Me Thread

[tectak]

I participate (slightly) in a poetry site (that sucks compared to ours) that has a couple good ideas and I was wondering if they would work here or if anyone would be interested.

1. Collaborative Poetry - I have never really tried collaborative poetry and I figure it is something I would be terrible at but here is the thought - A poet creates a thread "Looking for partner", someone sees it and volunteers, the 2 start a new thread and work through the collaborative process publicly, for all to see and comment on. At the end of it, they produce (hopefully) a viable poem that is then workshopped as a joint project.

2. Mentoring - this one is intriguing and really demands an abandonment of ego, but is very popular there. The idea is that 1 poet wants a mentor to - 1 on 1 - guide him through the revision process of a single poem, but, once again, publicly so everyone can learn from the process. The poet posts a single thread in the looking for mentor area and someone volunteers to work on the poem with them. Usually, to be a mentor, the poet must have demonstrated a certain skill in the critical and workshopping process. Usually to apply, a poet must have a minimum number of posts. At this point, the mentor starts work shopping the poem, one on one, with the LFM. After several intensive and public sessions, the mentor announces whether he feels the poem is complete or he completely gives up. If it is the former, the poem is then posted to the serious forum for the final phase.

At this point, I am looking for COMMENTS on these 2 ideas.

1. Could they work here?
2. Would anyone be interested in either one of them?
3. Are there modifications we would make to reflect the unique culture of our site.
4. Other question that you creative poet-types think up?

here are links of how they look on the other forum

1. http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread...troduction

2. http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread...STING-HERE

Hi milo,
Yes to the collaboration idea....that is exactly my purpose with Street Sleep Walking.
I am also moving threads, with permission, into the Serious Workshopping forum to encourage workshopping...we shall see. So long as some nasty bastard doesn't come in with ego pumped attitude and fuck off the aspirants...can't think that would happen, though
Best,
Tom