Has anyone from here been to PFFA?

I've never used the site myself - though I lurk there. It has always seemed to me excessively US-flavoured in its preconceptions about the nature of poetry.

On the other hand, several poets I respect and admire (all Americans, as it happens) tell me they were regulars on the site during the early stages of their development. (The moderately well-known younger American poet Devlin Bryant is probably the best known of them).

They all commented that they found the more aggressive comments overdone, and often forced; but they put up with that because some of the other remarks were well-informed and sometimes acute (well above the amorphous gush or catcalls you find on most internet poetry forums). They also all commented that after a year or so on the site, they felt they had outgrown it - and moved on to other forums (Sonnet Central was where most of them migrated after they had mastered the basics)

From what I've heard, and from what I see, PFFA is probably a useful rite of passage if you are a tyro and don't mind being American.

It has its uses; but from what I've read of your work you might already be past the pupation stage. I know I am.

Synopsis, with whom I get to have issues from time to time,

is advising you well......

I find your work well past the da-da-da-da point and to risk getting yourself

turned upside-down when you benefit here, as do we...I would say not,

at least not as a card-carrying dependent member?Keep your options open, for now D..

I`ve known some neophytes tread rhat path......two benefitted and 3 did not..

the 2 who did best were U.S born..I doubt it`s intentionally this way..

but note Syn.(his critiques are very sniffy and over high-handed imho

I want to say that...it needs saying lol)

but he knows the world of poetry well and would not mis-advise you , imho

If it`s helping more than hurting.......browse there, with time-or-offering limits

If not, think again Dinesh.

x

Ask them to post their creations and call me to analyze them. I 'll be more than happy to offer poetry my intellect. And real poems.