10-24-2018, 09:15 AM
I read poetry for the same reasons I skip pages in a novel, I want the get to the good bits, the killer line with a softer line underneath that only I can see, the connection between writer and reader that lets me look differently at something I thought I knew or something so strange, that I want to meet it.
I critique to let the writer know what it was that got through to me, where I felt the connection as a reader and what pages I wanted to skip and why. I do this because I know every poem can be improved and I want to be part of that process. I like poems with a plot, characters, sights, sounds and smells, poems with a beginning middle and end that changes the way I feel for a moment, so I guess I am drawn to poems that contain a short novel in 12ish wonderfully constructed lines.
I critique to let the writer know what it was that got through to me, where I felt the connection as a reader and what pages I wanted to skip and why. I do this because I know every poem can be improved and I want to be part of that process. I like poems with a plot, characters, sights, sounds and smells, poems with a beginning middle and end that changes the way I feel for a moment, so I guess I am drawn to poems that contain a short novel in 12ish wonderfully constructed lines.
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