dclary
05-15-2007, 11:24 PM
In general, the Poetry Critique board should be for soliciting criticism, advice for help, or just general impressions, right?
And if you just want to share some work that you've written, then post in the Chapbook.
I am certain that every person who posts a poem in the Chapbook is not posting there simply for posterity. They'd like some sort of validation that their work was at least read, even if not liked.
In the last month we've got like 8 or 9 poems in there without a single reply, and in some cases fewer than 5 total views. Ok, half of those are ddgryphon's Unicorn poem, but still... He'd like to know someone's read his stuff. I'd like to know someone read mine.
You know how the blogging forum has a Blog-out or some such crap where people commit to read and post comments on a certain number of blogs a day or some such nonsense? We should have something like that for the poetry forum. A "AW Poet's Appreciation Day."
Hell, make it a contest. That always gets people going.
Pick a day, or a weekend, or a week, and have everyone commit to read as many poems in the chapbook as possible. You don't need to comment on each one, or RP any of them. Just read them. And if you find one that really blows your mind, then comment, or RP, or send the contest organizer a note that says "Wow. I loved that one."
I have no idea how to make reading a contest. Maybe someone else does. But the poets in the Chapbook want to be read, and I'll pony up a $25 Amazon gift certificate as a prize for whatever contest our Poet Laureate or Moderator or other helpful soul can come up with in an attempt to get people to read them.
And if you just want to share some work that you've written, then post in the Chapbook.
I am certain that every person who posts a poem in the Chapbook is not posting there simply for posterity. They'd like some sort of validation that their work was at least read, even if not liked.
In the last month we've got like 8 or 9 poems in there without a single reply, and in some cases fewer than 5 total views. Ok, half of those are ddgryphon's Unicorn poem, but still... He'd like to know someone's read his stuff. I'd like to know someone read mine.
You know how the blogging forum has a Blog-out or some such crap where people commit to read and post comments on a certain number of blogs a day or some such nonsense? We should have something like that for the poetry forum. A "AW Poet's Appreciation Day."
Hell, make it a contest. That always gets people going.
Pick a day, or a weekend, or a week, and have everyone commit to read as many poems in the chapbook as possible. You don't need to comment on each one, or RP any of them. Just read them. And if you find one that really blows your mind, then comment, or RP, or send the contest organizer a note that says "Wow. I loved that one."
I have no idea how to make reading a contest. Maybe someone else does. But the poets in the Chapbook want to be read, and I'll pony up a $25 Amazon gift certificate as a prize for whatever contest our Poet Laureate or Moderator or other helpful soul can come up with in an attempt to get people to read them.