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[litQueen]

Hi everyone,
I'm excited to be a part of this community!
Looking forward to sharing with you all!
LQ

[ellajam]

Hi, lit, welcome to the site, make yourself at home.

[Achebe]

Hi everyone,
I'm excited to be a part of this community!
Looking forward to sharing with you all!
LQ

Hello, Lit. An ambitious nick you've got there!

[litQueen]

Hi everyone,
I'm excited to be a part of this community!
Looking forward to sharing with you all!
LQ

Hello, Lit. An ambitious nick you've got there!

haha 
Yeah, I didn't think that one through! Hoping everyone will help me eventually live up to it!

[mrsyarde]

Hello Everyone,
I look forward to talking to like minded people and pick your brains for advice and suggestions.

[ellajam]

Hey, mrsyarde, welcome to the Pigpen. Try reading the Important Threads of the workshops and jump on in.

[billy]

hi to all the newbs i haven't said hi to, welcome to the site.

[Andrew-A]

Hey everyone, glad to be a part of this forum.

[ellajam]

Hi, Andrew, welcome to the pigpen. If you click on each forum title you'll see the posting guidelines for each one and if you'd like to read some critique tips you'll find them in the important threads of Basic.

I hope you enjoy the site.

[Qwertyportne]

Just joined and hope to "meet" all of you in one forum or another. I've got several "packets" of poems I'd like to get critiqued before I submit them to publications--on-line and/or print. Look forward to your feedback and your friendship. Cheers!

[billy]

hi and welcome to the site.

[Powder]

Hey,

I'm a 22-year-old Dutch student, I've been writing shitty poetry for about 6 years. I've been really trying to improve for about a year or so now by learning about the theory behind it all, reading more literature, poetry and being brutally honest with myself. I joined Allpoetry at the time but I found the ratio between quality feedback and the effort I put into the poems to be, well... abysmal. I hope I've found a place where people aren't afraid to dig into a poem and really tear it apart. It would help me heaps as I've never really had anyone to really critique my poetry beyond 'I like it' (So I expect I direly need some feedback). I hope I can do the same for other people. I certainly like what I've seen so far.
I look forward to learning with you all.

Let's get schwifty with it,

Powder.

[Todd]

Hi Powder,

Welcome to the site! I appreciate the effort you've put into your critiques already. You'll get honest feedback here and your work will improve. We all start shitty.

[Leanne]

Hi Powder -- shitty is relative. If you'd said you're so awesome that you're going to disagree with anyone else's ideas about your poems and just hang around to advertise your own forum, we'd be much less welcoming

But you didn't, and your critiques thus far are pretty damn solid. I hope you find what you're looking for here.

[Fox Womb]

Hi,

I'm not old enough to drive, but I think I'm old enough to join this site? I've only been writing poetry on my own time for about a year now, and I think I've reached a point where I can no longer improve my writing without some external influences. I've already improved a fair bit from when I started (my poems aren't extremely edgy now!). I find it really hard to get honest feedback from anyone I know, as they all tend to give overly-positive reviews, so this site should help me.

I also struggle with giving feedback. I wonder if there's a forum where I could get my criticism critiqued...

[ellajam]

Hi, Fox, welcome to the pen. We don't have a specific place for critique to be critiqued but that's a good idea. You could start a thread in poetry discussion if you'd like to. You can read some critique tips in the Important Threads of Basic. Of the three I believe you've posted two were fine, you mentioned points the poet might find helpful, and the other was deleted because it only quoted another poem and gave a reading suggestion instead of focusing on the poem itself (I think that one was yours).

Based on the ones that got through I'm sure you'll do fine, I hope you enjoy the site.

[lel-__-]

Hi, I am new to this forum and I recently just started making poetry. I really enjoy making them because it can express my feeling. It really helps me a lot. I am looking forward to sharing my poem to all of you in this forum

[ellajam]

Hi, lel, welcome to the Pigpen. Our site is about sharing in order to improve. You might want to take a look at Critique Tips in the Important Threads of Basic, our Poetry Practice Forum and/or the link on the front page right to Colin Ward's Poetry Tips. I hope you enjoy the site and find it useful.

[mrazikje]

(nice to meet you, Powder!)

hey,
 name's john. i'm a musician looking to get more in-tune with myself as a songwriter. no major aspirations other than to be as honest and engaging as possible. 

let's dig in,

john

[ellajam]

(nice to meet you, Powder!)

hey,
 name's john. i'm a musician looking to get more in-tune with myself as a songwriter. no major aspirations other than to be as honest and engaging as possible. 

let's dig in,

john

Hi, john, welcome to the pigpen. While some of our members are fine musicians, songwriting is not our speciality, take a look around and see if the site's for you, you might find it useful anyway.