Poetry and Social Media

[billy]

we are critics, that's the point of the site; work-shopping. we're also poets and readers, we have to be readers in order to give feedback. most poetry on social media is done for accolades and back-slaps from people who are family, friends and others who haven't really been immersed in any decent poetry workshops or who have read much of what we know as decent poetry. many new poets who know of the older poetry often try and emulate it hence a lot of the cliche. they don't realize that while we can use form from the pst, the language we use in it should generally be modern and original. most people mum or friends would say that's lovely to any old piece of shit they read, it's the nice thing to do. most isn't posted in a workshop so no critique is needed or warranted.