why do we post here and wtf point

[ellajam]

I disagree with Luther Seahand, academic criticism is exactly why I am here, well, fun too. I have no money, time or inclination to enroll in a class, show up on their schedule and write during a specific period of time.

Having found this site, a free poetry class that I can attend at my convenience, with rotating teachers who acknowledge that they are also students, has nourished my meager talent in a way no other place I've found could. When members point to the gaping holes in my work it is to show me where I need to improve, and they have stuck with me through numerous attempts to make a poem work to the best of my own abilities.

I have never had requests for help ignored or refused. Instead, it seems members here have endless patience and take the time to repeatedly explain what I am sometimes too thick to understand the first time.

It's the internet. If a site is not your style, try another one. If someone's poetic career can be derailed by the readers on one website, my guess is they are not the next Shakespeare anyway. Luther Seahand need not worry.