From time to time, I will move up threads that seem to be relevant in the moment. New users jump onto Poets.net every day, and, perhaps, hav...

[ Note: this thread was originally posted in April 2008, but I thought it was worth a bump up to 2011 .] I'm going to crawl out on a lim...

As more small publishers begin charging reading fees, you might want to conduct some serious research before writing those checks. For examp...

. Insult poetry has a long poetic tradition, for example, this poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Cologne ---------- In Koln, a to...

"Confessional Poetry" (From Wikipedia ): Confessional poetry traffics in intimate, and sometimes unflattering, information about d...

In 2008, The Writer's Chronicle published a timely article: "On Difficulty in Poetry," by Reginald Shepherd. In his introduct...

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Back in the 1970s, some poets were excoriated because they would dare to write about atrocities that had little or nothing to do with them. ...

TomWest said: The "aspiring writer" industry has become far bigger than the "successful writer" industry, and the "...

The following in-depth discussion, which discusses cronyism in general terms, is from Wikipedia *, and used in accordance with its GNU Free ...

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This thread is open to those of you who want to plug your books or the books of your friends. Creative writers don't have a lot of oppor...

(The following article has been reposted--with permission from its author--from Post Foetry . In this article, the author discusses the syst...