Bump. This post originally appeared on this site on April 9, 2008, when Poets.net was still very young. I believe this question is worthy of...

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UPDATED 5/7/08 In his or her comment in A Second Open Letter to Tree Swenson, President and Executive Director of the Academy of American Po...

I'd love to go from Hunger Mountain right into a piece on Colrain--which is the same deal, really, except people spend much more money,...

The popularity of "American Idol" would seem to confirm that large swaths of pop music audiences prefer "Judging/Competition/...

Dear Christopher, I'm very sorry that this has happened to you . The trumped up charges are a pretty clear indication that your banning ...

. Night descends upon the city. The moon rises higher and higher as if trying to get a better look upon the city's inhabitants. As night...

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

. (The poet, who wishes to remain anonymous, originally submitted this poem for critique, which appears in its own critique thread . He/she ...

. During poetry month, I usually open the daily poem email from poets.org, glance over it, and move on. Today, I was compelled to respond to...

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

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A Commoner (as he was known on the Speakeasy thread) was banned (and remains banned) from the P & W Speakeasy forum. After a week of h...

(Corrected entry) Evidently, freedom of expression at Poets & Writers is afforded to some poets and writers and not extended to others,...

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