Do you know any good poetry sites to get your poems critique by pro's?

Question

Any one know any good poetry sites where I can get my poems critique by professionals?

Cheers.

I have had the jack of yahoo breather which will only let me post c**p.

Answer 1

What is a "professional"? Someone who himself or herself writes poems? Someone who teaches poems? Someone who has read poetry for years?

People who seriously publish poetry expect to be paid for their efforts. Since criticism would draw on their professional expertise, they would want to be paid. Such people are not going to take on folks they don't know, gratis, over the web. Look at the number of people who want their poems read and appraised and probably praised. It would daunt anyone, and leave the true poet no time for practicing the art itself.

The same thing, roughly, might be said for teachers.

The only way to get serious criticism is to find a poet whose work you admire and whom you yourself can know and establish a contact. It may be through a university, or it may not. It may involve money, or it may not.

It is not easy to do. It also requires that you have some given talent that the other person can see and respond to. Talent can be refined and developed, but it cannot be created ex nihilo. As Ring Lardner said in another context, "You can't take a born druggist and make him into a short story writer."

The number of people in the world talented with language in the way poetry requires is small. The need or demand for poems in the world is also not large. Therefore, pursuit of poetry has to be done for the love of the art itself and because the writer can't help it. It is not a choice in the usual sense. The muse chooses the writer, not the other way around. She is not likely to truck with websites, and I know of no sites such as you ask about.

Answer 2

There are virtually no professionals in poetry unless you mean teachers.  Take a college class if you're of age to do that.  I did, and it was a great experience-- about a dozen students.  We read and evaluated each others poems each class.  I learned a lot from it.  Otherwise, skip the Internet and submit to one of the poetry magazines.  

Answer 3

Marco polo or whoever he thinks he is , is so full of it, his eyes must be brown.  Professional poets abound, or there would be no books of poetry nor would there be any poets drawing royalties.  These so-called college teachers who actually know what they are talking about are what is few and far between, as well as poetry majors.  Some learn, but most just memorize and parrot what they hear.  As a professional poetry site to get critique, I know of none, as I am my harshest critic.  There are many sites that give the basics of poetry, the different styles, etc. but I have found that each poet will eventually develop a style of their own and sometimes more than one.

Answer 4

I recently registered with criticalpoet.com. I haven't posted anything for critique yet, but I've been checking out what kind of critiques they give and so far they're better than the ones I see in my on-line community college courses. The courses I have taken have helped, but only because I've been lucky to have very helpful instructors. Most of my fellow classmates in the past have refused to believe that good poetry revolves around good technique.

Answer 5

criticalpoet.com

Has varying levels of critique.

Answer 6

No! but I know a good site where you can publish your poems for free!! with no hard sale tactics or hidden agendas!!!

share your talent with the world @

http://www.poetrybysilvertongue.com/

and now our sister site

http://www.poetryforall.co.uk