31 responses to “25 Online Poetry Forums and Workshops”
Hi Bud,
That’s a wonderful picture of the technology it takes to link us to all this great poetry. And in that spirit I linked to this page from my blog so I may have ready access to the list. Thanks.
Thanks for putting this post to good use. I may do the same, come to think of it.
Isn’t that a cool picture. The photographer goes by the name P Kent. I found it at Flickr.com. It’s called Management Network.
But I thought, as a librarian, you were going to chastise me for marking up the Shakespeare book cover.
Bud
Nice site!
a pleasant suprise
4 June 2007
After the storm, my mind cleared.
And a high wind arose and blew the tropics north.
running quartz crystals through a blender.
sand through your engines.
bubbles in your bays.
estuaries reaching out toward forbidden seas…
sand through your eyes.
5 June 2007
Calm as baby’s breath
as peaceful as the storm’s eye
Clouds spread and drawn with rough strokes of stratospheric winds
a warm and windy tropical day.
7 June 2007
Black water at dusk.
Lighting on the horizon.
Warm winds coming in across the darkening waters.
A flash of white wings as an egret takes flight.
And Thunder like God clearing his throat.
8 June 2007
Morning star in the still of the clear, dark waters.
a sky as clear eyed as a young girl.
bruised and tattered storm remnants limp off in the gathering light.
9 June 2007
Tickled her fancy.
giggling all the day long.
pretty good for a Saturday.
Clouds on the lake floating aimlessly by.
She smiled big–grinned really.
12 JUne 2007
A silver sky
ripe for the mirror.
you can not see yourself in this mirror
you can only see others
moreover, you can only see what others choose to expose.
Their houses, their boats, their sea-doos.
Birds skimming low over the water could
like as not
see them selves if they were to look down
as they skim low over the water
but they never do.
Rather they allow their reflections to chase them
quick and sharp over the still, glistening waters
while the bird’s mind remains ever fixed on
food, or other birds, or escaping those damn noisy humans.
A dense forest impenetrable as a gaze.
13 JUne 2007
Like angry bee’s eyes
the metal screen seen through the bamboo blinds.
A million insects dot the lake spreading micro ripples
14 June 2007
Of Fly Catchers and hidden lakes.
Of sleeping lizards and morning dew.
It is of birdsong and misty dawns
and fleeced clouds floating in a still pool.
The waters ripple awake in the gathering morn.
The first water birds head out for the far shore.
20 June 2007
A garden of elephant ears.
A lake of light.
A furrowed sky.
Warm air, tinged with the coolness of a passing shower.
A swath of short green swords with serrated edges.
22 JUne 2007
Of Stone Poets and shattered wooden quays.
Bolts of clay and carpets of mud.
Footholds on pyrrhic shores.
Fusillades of futilty and wars of choice.
23 June 2007
Wind and water.
Stone glass and stone poets.
Air plants and sudden acts of Feng Shui.
24 June 2007
Seaparate ponds like a string of pearls gleaming in the twilight.
The ages of man, the lovers of a lifetime
bright and shiny thoughts flickering like little fires banked against the great dark.
The toothy smiles of a pretty woman or two.
Events and ages the like of which will not be seen again.
Its Christmas time again
The season of renewal
Love, faith, charity
And all that is beautiful
Chimes greatly in to every heart
Beating in celebrations
Of Spirit, togetherness, and affirmation.
P.S. Please administrator clatterymachinery.wordpress.com. If the thread is not to be in category this, I ask you to move my thread to the
correct category.
very interesting.
i’m adding in RSS Reader
[…] of creativity with? To this end, there is an article here at Clattery MacHinery on Poetry called 25 Online Poetry Forums and Workshops where you can click and explore select poetry forums. To this same end, you could […]
You have listed some good resources for all to check and enjoy. Thank you for sharing.
Since my pee in the pool essay has been mentioned, with the link given, I’ll post to the thread.
When checking out any or all of the 25 boards given as resources take the time to read the guidelines and by-laws of each board. Read them seriously. Read them closely. Two of the boards listed, the two TCP boards, were, in fact, primary incitement to my essay. For something of an inside look into how one site admin. views his customer-poets there are the comments of Dmehl following my essay.
Take quite seriously what a board’s guidelines state. Then imagine how a guideline can be interpreted if and when a customer-poet is deemed an undesirable. Poetry boards have become a case of caveat emptor. The environment is not always friendly to the creative type.
Terreson
A follow up. Dmehl 808’s exchange starts with #248. It is where he advises a fellow site admin on TCP.com’s sister board to “ban (members) a little more freely.”
So again. Read a poetry board’s guidelines carefully. Then spend a month, maybe two, following board management practices before investing yourself in the proceedings.
Terreson
Is this gonna end someday??
“is this gonna end someday??”
Not as long as egos are at stake.
Unless a lawsuit prevails, of course.
Frankly, Stitlystola, I should hope not. I should hope all poets take stock of poetry boards, both the good and the bad. And because I believe in the system, I guess I hope poetry boards take stock of themselves.
Terreson
Who ever did this list might want to take another look, TCP is now two sites…niether of them have the ambience the orginal site had.
The versifier has a new board by Yuku, as do a few others, Yuku is the pits to try and use.
Hi Steve,
I compile and attend to the list.
Thanks for your sharp eye.
While ezboards convert to Yuku, I have been keeping up with it, as I receive e-mails whenever this occurs at the forums. This list is kept in more places than just this post at C.M., so that each time Yuku converts another ezboard, I have several places to edit. Therefore, I edit only after a group of them. Note that Rule 9 has not converted yet.
Yes, TCP.org has given birth, in a way, to spin-off TCP.com. Both forums have good poets there. There is nothing about going through periods of growth, change, or even tough times that disqualifies a forum from the list. I look at the heart of the situation.
One important aspect is that if I am to point someone to a forum, I want to be sure I am not sending poets to get chewed up by dogs, or be chastised for breaking rigid rules or a peculiar set of rules that only insiders see the genius of. There should also be a sense that a poet entering a forum should be welcome to both make a contribution to the craft being worked on there, and that given whatever time, receive constructive or contributory feedback on their own work.
These are ideals that only rare forums live up to 7 days a week, and that most stray from for significant periods. That’s why I say, it’s the heart that counts.
C.
I am here at a forum newcomer. Until I read and deal with the forum.
Let’s learn!
Online private instruction in poetry writing in Spanish (working one-on-one) for both, native speakers and students of advanced Spanish.
[…] Machinery on Poetry and Babilu, but also many online poetry workshops, such as can be found at 25 Online Poetry Forums and Workshops, and may wrestling forums such as can be found at my post at MassWrestling.com, Amateur Wrestling […]
This look interesting,so far.
If there’s anyone else here, let me know.
Oh, and yes I’m a real person LOL.
See ya,
you people do know all poetry is hell .. right. I actually joined.
Oh the things we tell people we do not know and can not see.
Clattery, if I may I would like to put in a plug for the board, Delectable Mnts. In the spirit of disclosure I should tell your readers that I own the board.
Delectable Mnts is a small board. While it is primarily a poetry board it also runs in a salon-like fashion. By salon-like I mean it encourages conversation extending from the intellectual to the incidental. After all, poets cannot be making poetry 24/7. And sometimes it is enjoyable to discuss things other than poetry among the poetry reading public. The board has very few requirements. To become a member all that is needed is to register with the mother ship, runboard.com, then post on the board. And members do not have to fill a quota of comments in order to post original poetry. (Quid pro quo is the rule.)
I invite all to visit the board and look around.
Tere
Hi folks,
EpochZine is 20 days new ! We handle arts, technologies,current affairs from our base in Scotland. Come aboard! D’ye want a job wi us? Do you have a large sum of €s that you’d like us to do summint spectacular with?
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Hi Rus/Clattery,
Just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your Facebook posts. I always enjoy them.
hi folks,
being innocent and pleading so in a scottish court is like taking the inside passage past stroma island or walking across the m8 motorway; it’s a risky biz with little chance of success. so i’ve been detained temporarely in new craigs hospital.
what the hell. i’ve managed to smuggle in a dongle to keep transmitting …
Hi Yok,
It’s great to hear from you, but what extraordinary circumstance.
I hope you are well, and that all comes out on your favor sooner than later.
Let me know how things are going.
C.
I’ve been taught to visit the sick and the imprisoned–consider this a visit! Hope your detention will not last too long.Hope you are finding some time for poetry–I always liked the melody in your lines:-)
Yok, I have no idea what this is all about but I hope you are well or on your way there. You are in my thoughts.
ClO2
men that meet
in airless windowless
rooms never
mean us good
you’d think
that truth, honesty
and FRESH AIR
are toxic to them
you are correct! these
are New Craig’s
psyciatrists.
…………………
(but we, the human factor, are the counter-attack)
(
Hi folks,
I’m in good mental and physical health. Thanks all for keeping in touch. The EpochZine online forum is at
Clattery MacHinery on Poetry 
31 responses to “25 Online Poetry Forums and Workshops”
Hi Bud,
That’s a wonderful picture of the technology it takes to link us to all this great poetry. And in that spirit I linked to this page from my blog so I may have ready access to the list. Thanks.
Carol
Hi Carol,
Thanks for putting this post to good use. I may do the same, come to think of it.
Isn’t that a cool picture. The photographer goes by the name P Kent. I found it at Flickr.com. It’s called Management Network.
But I thought, as a librarian, you were going to chastise me for marking up the Shakespeare book cover.
Bud
Nice site!
a pleasant suprise
4 June 2007
After the storm, my mind cleared.
And a high wind arose and blew the tropics north.
running quartz crystals through a blender.
sand through your engines.
bubbles in your bays.
estuaries reaching out toward forbidden seas…
sand through your eyes.
5 June 2007
Calm as baby’s breath
as peaceful as the storm’s eye
Clouds spread and drawn with rough strokes of stratospheric winds
a warm and windy tropical day.
7 June 2007
Black water at dusk.
Lighting on the horizon.
Warm winds coming in across the darkening waters.
A flash of white wings as an egret takes flight.
And Thunder like God clearing his throat.
8 June 2007
Morning star in the still of the clear, dark waters.
a sky as clear eyed as a young girl.
bruised and tattered storm remnants limp off in the gathering light.
9 June 2007
Tickled her fancy.
giggling all the day long.
pretty good for a Saturday.
Clouds on the lake floating aimlessly by.
She smiled big–grinned really.
12 JUne 2007
A silver sky
ripe for the mirror.
you can not see yourself in this mirror
you can only see others
moreover, you can only see what others choose to expose.
Their houses, their boats, their sea-doos.
Birds skimming low over the water could
like as not
see them selves if they were to look down
as they skim low over the water
but they never do.
Rather they allow their reflections to chase them
quick and sharp over the still, glistening waters
while the bird’s mind remains ever fixed on
food, or other birds, or escaping those damn noisy humans.
A dense forest impenetrable as a gaze.
13 JUne 2007
Like angry bee’s eyes
the metal screen seen through the bamboo blinds.
A million insects dot the lake spreading micro ripples
14 June 2007
Of Fly Catchers and hidden lakes.
Of sleeping lizards and morning dew.
It is of birdsong and misty dawns
and fleeced clouds floating in a still pool.
The waters ripple awake in the gathering morn.
The first water birds head out for the far shore.
20 June 2007
A garden of elephant ears.
A lake of light.
A furrowed sky.
Warm air, tinged with the coolness of a passing shower.
A swath of short green swords with serrated edges.
22 JUne 2007
Of Stone Poets and shattered wooden quays.
Bolts of clay and carpets of mud.
Footholds on pyrrhic shores.
Fusillades of futilty and wars of choice.
23 June 2007
Wind and water.
Stone glass and stone poets.
Air plants and sudden acts of Feng Shui.
24 June 2007
Seaparate ponds like a string of pearls gleaming in the twilight.
The ages of man, the lovers of a lifetime
bright and shiny thoughts flickering like little fires banked against the great dark.
The toothy smiles of a pretty woman or two.
Events and ages the like of which will not be seen again.
Its Christmas time again
The season of renewal
Love, faith, charity
And all that is beautiful
Chimes greatly in to every heart
Beating in celebrations
Of Spirit, togetherness, and affirmation.
P.S. Please administrator clatterymachinery.wordpress.com. If the thread is not to be in category this, I ask you to move my thread to the
correct category.
very interesting.
i’m adding in RSS Reader
[…] of creativity with? To this end, there is an article here at Clattery MacHinery on Poetry called 25 Online Poetry Forums and Workshops where you can click and explore select poetry forums. To this same end, you could […]
You have listed some good resources for all to check and enjoy. Thank you for sharing.
Since my pee in the pool essay has been mentioned, with the link given, I’ll post to the thread.
When checking out any or all of the 25 boards given as resources take the time to read the guidelines and by-laws of each board. Read them seriously. Read them closely. Two of the boards listed, the two TCP boards, were, in fact, primary incitement to my essay. For something of an inside look into how one site admin. views his customer-poets there are the comments of Dmehl following my essay.
Take quite seriously what a board’s guidelines state. Then imagine how a guideline can be interpreted if and when a customer-poet is deemed an undesirable. Poetry boards have become a case of caveat emptor. The environment is not always friendly to the creative type.
Terreson
A follow up. Dmehl 808’s exchange starts with #248. It is where he advises a fellow site admin on TCP.com’s sister board to “ban (members) a little more freely.”
So again. Read a poetry board’s guidelines carefully. Then spend a month, maybe two, following board management practices before investing yourself in the proceedings.
Terreson
Is this gonna end someday??
“is this gonna end someday??”
Not as long as egos are at stake.
Unless a lawsuit prevails, of course.
Frankly, Stitlystola, I should hope not. I should hope all poets take stock of poetry boards, both the good and the bad. And because I believe in the system, I guess I hope poetry boards take stock of themselves.
Terreson
Who ever did this list might want to take another look, TCP is now two sites…niether of them have the ambience the orginal site had.
The versifier has a new board by Yuku, as do a few others, Yuku is the pits to try and use.
Hi Steve,
I compile and attend to the list.
Thanks for your sharp eye.
While ezboards convert to Yuku, I have been keeping up with it, as I receive e-mails whenever this occurs at the forums. This list is kept in more places than just this post at C.M., so that each time Yuku converts another ezboard, I have several places to edit. Therefore, I edit only after a group of them. Note that Rule 9 has not converted yet.
Yes, TCP.org has given birth, in a way, to spin-off TCP.com. Both forums have good poets there. There is nothing about going through periods of growth, change, or even tough times that disqualifies a forum from the list. I look at the heart of the situation.
One important aspect is that if I am to point someone to a forum, I want to be sure I am not sending poets to get chewed up by dogs, or be chastised for breaking rigid rules or a peculiar set of rules that only insiders see the genius of. There should also be a sense that a poet entering a forum should be welcome to both make a contribution to the craft being worked on there, and that given whatever time, receive constructive or contributory feedback on their own work.
These are ideals that only rare forums live up to 7 days a week, and that most stray from for significant periods. That’s why I say, it’s the heart that counts.
C.
I am here at a forum newcomer. Until I read and deal with the forum.
Let’s learn!
Online private instruction in poetry writing in Spanish (working one-on-one) for both, native speakers and students of advanced Spanish.
More information:
http://blog.pucp.edu.pe/item/41571
Hi Pedro,
Thanks for the tip.
If you or any of your students want to share work online, there is an unused Spanish Workshop here:
Babilu Español
It’s there waiting for poets to populate it.
C.
Спасибо за пост. Позновательно
[…] Machinery on Poetry and Babilu, but also many online poetry workshops, such as can be found at 25 Online Poetry Forums and Workshops, and may wrestling forums such as can be found at my post at MassWrestling.com, Amateur Wrestling […]
This look interesting,so far.
If there’s anyone else here, let me know.
Oh, and yes I’m a real person LOL.
See ya,
you people do know all poetry is hell .. right. I actually joined.
Oh the things we tell people we do not know and can not see.
Clattery, if I may I would like to put in a plug for the board, Delectable Mnts. In the spirit of disclosure I should tell your readers that I own the board.
Delectable Mnts is a small board. While it is primarily a poetry board it also runs in a salon-like fashion. By salon-like I mean it encourages conversation extending from the intellectual to the incidental. After all, poets cannot be making poetry 24/7. And sometimes it is enjoyable to discuss things other than poetry among the poetry reading public. The board has very few requirements. To become a member all that is needed is to register with the mother ship, runboard.com, then post on the board. And members do not have to fill a quota of comments in order to post original poetry. (Quid pro quo is the rule.)
I invite all to visit the board and look around.
Tere
Hi folks,
EpochZine is 20 days new ! We handle arts, technologies,current affairs from our base in Scotland. Come aboard! D’ye want a job wi us? Do you have a large sum of €s that you’d like us to do summint spectacular with?
A Web Crossing Forum will appear soon.
Hi Rus/Clattery,
Just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your Facebook posts. I always enjoy them.
hi folks,
being innocent and pleading so in a scottish court is like taking the inside passage past stroma island or walking across the m8 motorway; it’s a risky biz with little chance of success. so i’ve been detained temporarely in new craigs hospital.
what the hell. i’ve managed to smuggle in a dongle to keep transmitting …
Hi Yok,
It’s great to hear from you, but what extraordinary circumstance.
I hope you are well, and that all comes out on your favor sooner than later.
Let me know how things are going.
C.
I’ve been taught to visit the sick and the imprisoned–consider this a visit! Hope your detention will not last too long.Hope you are finding some time for poetry–I always liked the melody in your lines:-)
Yok, I have no idea what this is all about but I hope you are well or on your way there. You are in my thoughts.
ClO2
men that meet
in airless windowless
rooms never
mean us good
you’d think
that truth, honesty
and FRESH AIR
are toxic to them
you are correct! these
are New Craig’s
psyciatrists.
…………………
(but we, the human factor, are the counter-attack)
(
Hi folks,
I’m in good mental and physical health. Thanks all for keeping in touch. The EpochZine online forum is at
http://www.runboard.com/bbrammerzeit.f1
— Yok