09-02-2014, 05:37 PM
"Our online courses usually commence with participants submitting their first poem a few days before the course starts. The tutor (and in some cases other participants) will respond with feedback and direction. Participants will then continue to submit their work, improving it based on feedback offered weekly, for the duration of the course."
This is a blurb for a series of 3-5 day online workshops run by various (fairly mediocre, from what my research tells me) "famous" poets. These courses vary in price, between $95 and $140.
To me, the format sounds exactly like what the Pig Pen does for free -- and yet we still get people bitching about not getting enough attention, or being "forced" to critique other work, or a variety of other things. Now, the way I see it is, if you're not paying for it, you're free to fuck off.
This is a blurb for a series of 3-5 day online workshops run by various (fairly mediocre, from what my research tells me) "famous" poets. These courses vary in price, between $95 and $140.
To me, the format sounds exactly like what the Pig Pen does for free -- and yet we still get people bitching about not getting enough attention, or being "forced" to critique other work, or a variety of other things. Now, the way I see it is, if you're not paying for it, you're free to fuck off.
It could be worse