08-09-2011, 08:39 PM
Well, seems I'm in the minority, though merging poetry practice is I think still a better idea than doing away with mild critique and replacing it with a beginner's forum. Mild critique serves a very important purpose to my mind. It encourages people to share what poems they might otherwise have been hesitant to for fear of them being ripped apart.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe

