The Poetry Free-for-all

This forum is for PFFA announcements. Changes to rules and policies and to the site itself, PFFA events, and anything else that seems worth announcing will be announced here. Only moderators can start threads, but anyone can reply to them.

A place for newcomers and those unfamiliar with the rigors of a poetry workshop to be placed on the rack and elongated. Err. No. I mean, a place to introduce oneself and possibly acquire some posting and critting sea legs. Post your first poem here before moving on to the slightly deeper waters of General Poetry. As always, 3 crits per posted poem applies. (If you're new to critique, this will help.)

A post-free, purge-free haven for handy snippets on poetry and such, generally posted in Voyages and pickled for posterity here by the mods. Don't start or reply to threads.

Poets and poetasters of the Internet, unite! If you're new to poetry and criticism, post here after testing the warmer waters of the Newbies Stretching Room first. And please read the New Posters' Orientation thread before you dive in.

The next step for intermediate-level poets desiring constructive critical commentary. Please read and respect these groovy C&C guidelines.

It's NaPo's 21st year here at PFFA! Read the guidelines, then join in!

15 years of Seven/Sevens! That's over 1100 days of poetry! Be sure to read these helpful guidelines and hints, then jump on in and write seven poems in seven days, starting on the seventh day of the month. (You can find previous Seven/Seven forums here.)

If you feel the need to feed your megalomania by suggesting a challenge which will coerce everyone into writing in a specific form, on a specific topic, using a particularly loathsome phrase, or any such poetic pitfall, this is the place.

Win friends, influence people, have a beer and chat about whatever drifts across the transom of your mind, poetry-related or not. This is the forum for random nonsense.

Did you just read William Carlos Williams for the first time? Seamus Heaney? Milton? This is the place to share your experiences of new poetry, discuss classical and modern works, trade anecdotes, recommend anthologies, and all that helpful stuff.

Hopefully few of the former, some of (what's between former and latter?), and many of the latter. Here's where to suggest improvements, changes, policies, anything else of which you feel the need to unburden yourself.

The Internet poetry world is complex and ever-expanding, with something for just about anyone. This is the place to discuss other venues and to post fair, unbiased reviews of your experiences in the barren, unhealthy lands beyond PFFA.

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