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[Gr33nEyedP03t]

Hi!

[Magpie]

Hi!

Hi! back at you...

[jiggeryqua]

Hi


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If we must destroy in order to create, is poetry a creative art when nothing is destroyed except, perhaps, a silence? At any rate, I keep breaking the silence and sometimes people enjoy that. I keep critiquing too, though there's perhaps less enjoyment attached - t ought to matter to any poet that other poets also seek constant improvement.

[edeno]

Hi all 

[NCPoetWannaBe1974]

Hello everyone! Looking to post a little poetry and receive some constructive criticism. Looking forward to my time here. Thanks for having me!

[brynmawr1]

Hello everyone! Looking to post a little poetry and receive some constructive criticism. Looking forward to my time here. Thanks for having me!

Hello and welcome to Pigpen.  We look forward to reading your work and helping you improve it.  I see you have already offered your own input.  That is really the fuel that powers this site.  Don't be shy about offering suggestions on other's work.  No one will criticize your comments.  In fact the mantra is, "Thank you.  May I have another!"  So the worst that might happen is that a writer just won't use your suggestion. 

Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
Take care,
Bryn

[ecofreak20]

Hey there,

Another lowly poet looking for continued critique. I hail from Central New York, and I've been active recently as a poet and writing teacher for students at my local community center. I'm also in a local writing society that is publishing our first zine on my birthday, 6/21; so close I can taste it.

I first became active as an artist in Rochester, which is about an hour from where I am now. I write performance poetry as well as work only for the page, and I'm hitting a wall with submissions, so I'm turning my work out for review. I see here there's rules about critique before posting work, so I'll get on that now. I have a huge backlog of high ticket work I would like some intense review of, but I know I have to give some to get it back.

I do have a question about how submitting to lit magazines will work after I post my work here; can I do that without getting in trouble? How has that experience been for others?

Anyhow, thanks for taking a sec to read this, and my warmest hello to you!

Cheers,
Olivia

[busker]

Hey there,

Another lowly poet looking for continued critique. I hail from Central New York, and I've been active recently as a poet and writing teacher for students at my local community center. I'm also in a local writing society that is publishing our first zine on my birthday, 6/21; so close I can taste it.

I first became active as an artist in Rochester, which is about an hour from where I am now. I write performance poetry as well as work only for the page, and I'm hitting a wall with submissions, so I'm turning my work out for review. I see here there's rules about critique before posting work, so I'll get on that now. I have a huge backlog of high ticket work I would like some intense review of, but I know I have to give some to get it back.

I do have a question about how submitting to lit magazines will work after I post my work here; can I do that without getting in trouble? How has that experience been for others?

Anyhow, thanks for taking a sec to read this, and my warmest hello to you!

Cheers,
Olivia

Welcome, Olivia
Note that the level and forthrightness of Crit goes up from Basic through to Intensive, so you might need the thick skin for the latter. In the end, changing or staying with a piece is up to you, so take crit in that spirit.
I don't know how well you'll be able to work through a 'huge backlog' of work as the site isn't as active as it used to be some years ago, but a reasonable volume should be okay.

About submitting to lit magazines - there are some members who've done that for poems that they've workshopped. The rules vary from magazine to magazine. This site considers your poem to be your property and you can do with it what you like, but other magazines may or may not accept poems that have been published in any forum. You can browse through some older posts here on that topic. To be on the safer side, maybe don't post the poems you intend to publish, but do post others like them, and apply the same principles to edit.

[Brokenangel1960]

I’m here to both learn and connect
 — to read, reflect, and offer thoughtful feedback
 as much and receive the same as I share my own work.
 From what I’ve seen so far, this seems like a warm, witty, and supportive community
, and I’m looking forward to getting a little mud on my snot right alongside you all.

[rowens]

I’m here to both learn and connect
 — to read, reflect, and offer thoughtful feedback
 as much and receive the same as I share my own work.
 From what I’ve seen so far, this seems like a warm, witty, and supportive community,
 and I’m looking forward to getting a little mud on my snot right alongside you all.

[thewilderhen]

Hi! In my day job I train plumbers to use technology. I need poems to counteract. Granted, most of the time the plumbers are lovely. But the tech instruction is not.

I’ve been writing poems for 15 years and I know nothing. So I am here.

[brynmawr1]

Hi! In my day job I train plumbers to use technology. I need poems to counteract. Granted, most of the time the plumbers are lovely. But the tech instruction is not.

I’ve been writing poems for 15 years and I know nothing. So I am here.

Hi Wilderhen,
Interesting avatar.  Welcome to the Pen. You likely know more than you think.  You've got years on me doing this poetry thing.

Give feedback,
post and you'll get yours, always
with the kindest intent,
dressed in your thickest skin.

Looking forward to reading your work.
Bryn

[Nachtfrost]

Hello.
I'm not sure if this is a right place, as I wouldn't exactly call myself a poet per se. I write extremely rarely, and, being ESL, almost everything I could post here would be singular examples of my own poetic translations of my own original poems in my mother tongue.
I mostly write poetry as a deeply personal therapeutic act of spewing out suppressed emotions, Dostoyevsky's "nadryv", if you will. I'm seeking critique as a way to find out, whether these feelings and emotions are well enough formulated, and at all discernable to other people. And of course plainly grammatically too :)

[rowens]

If the feelings are weird they are better, and may stand alone. If they are typical, they can be dressed up weirdly or well-written to the point that typical is noble and exciting. Or there's a trapdoor or hidden passageway that converts raw feelings and emotions into things that have nothing to do with the actual feelings, the raw drive gathers materials and carves them into poems or whatever you are doing. That last method is called Sitting Under a Lime-Tree.

[CRNDLSM]

Hello.
I'm not sure if this is a right place, as I wouldn't exactly call myself a poet per se. I write extremely rarely, and, being ESL, almost everything I could post here would be singular examples of my own poetic translations of my own original poems in my mother tongue.
I mostly write poetry as a deeply personal therapeutic act of spewing out suppressed emotions, Dostoyevsky's "nadryv", if you will. I'm seeking critique as a way to find out, whether these feelings and emotions are well enough formulated, and at all discernable to other people. And of course plainly grammatically too

Be happy to help, but you gotta post a critique in the forum before posting your own for critique.  So since youre in intensive, you should go intensively critique a poem or two first so people know youre genuine

[milo]

Hello.
I'm not sure if this is a right place, as I wouldn't exactly call myself a poet per se. I write extremely rarely, and, being ESL, almost everything I could post here would be singular examples of my own poetic translations of my own original poems in my mother tongue.
I mostly write poetry as a deeply personal therapeutic act of spewing out suppressed emotions, Dostoyevsky's "nadryv", if you will. I'm seeking critique as a way to find out, whether these feelings and emotions are well enough formulated, and at all discernable to other people. And of course plainly grammatically too

well, if you are looking for that type of critique - this would be a place to find it.
If you are looking for a community of poets (albeit slightly smaller) - this would be a place to find it.
If you are just looking for a place to do a little poetic research - this would be the place to find it.
If you are looking for a place just to hang out and discuss poetry - well, you know th rest.

Welcome to the Pen!