POETS: PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING YOUR WORK

POETS: PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE POSTING YOUR WORK

We would like you to feel free to post your own poetry or discuss the idea and making of poetry in this forum, but you should be aware that your work is open to critique. Posting your efforts here sets you open to both unrestrained admiration for your literary talents, and creative criticism from those who hold a stricter view of what poetry should be.

We encourage the use of verse as a vessel for bearing your feelings into a new language or expanding your abilities in your own first one (if it be English), but keep in mind that it will be as open to grammatical and structural examination as are essays, letters and other submissions to English Forums. Just as essays and business letters require certain elements of appropriateness, so does a poem have criteria. These vary with the reader, and you may therefore get a range of reactions, all of them intended to be helpful in improving your language skills.

If you really do not want any advice, you could write 'Do Not Criticize' at the top of your post-- that might work.

If you need help understanding what poetry is or should be, there are a lot of poetry websites out there; here is just one of them— link