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Hello,
I am aware that one should message a mod before posting a poem in the critique sub-forums, but I do not know if that applies to General Talk. If so I apologise in advance for my ignorance.

I am a member of poetry free-for-all and obviously a new member of Eratosphere, and I was wondering (because I just love workshops that much!) if there are any other poetry forums of a similar quality still active on the web.
It saddens me that I am a few years too late to join poets.org or Gazebo, and now they are both inactive. M.A. Griffiths and other great internet poets have either died or wandered away and I am ashamed that I never got to meet such poets online, but we're moving away from the point.
So, I was just wondering if there were any workshops with a similar quality of critique to pffa and Eratosphere still online. There doesn't seem to be, but please tell me if you know of any!
Regards,
Cameron Clark

No, there aren't any poetry workshops as good as Eratosphere, Cameron. But I would say that, wouldn't I? ;) :D

But seriously, I know of plenty of other crappy sites that I wouldn't go near! How much time do you have on your hands, I'm wondering, if you want to join other sites. (Quality, not quantity?) It's good to build up a relationship with the lovely people here - honestly, I have made a lot of really great friends on both sides of The Pond, through being a member here.

But others may know of places you could try... forgive my light-hearted treatment of your question.

Jayne

Jayne,
Thank you. A fluctuating amount of time. It's less that I want to jump on 7 forums all at the same time and more out of curiosity at the state of Internet forums. I hear there were four back in the day, and now there's only about two.

Eratosphere is really cool, I'm enjoying it here!

Jaimes Alsop
 

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Why/when did Gazebo stop/fail? Why are there only two (erato and pffa) when there once was four? Where has everyone gone: Griffiths (sadly dead), Alsop (sadly dead) peter J. ross, kristalo, others who I am not aware of? It still confuses me.

Time passes.
Everything changes.

Nemo

The indomitable truth, Nemo.
But still, I wonder at the specific reasons for the closure of poets.org and The Gazebo forums.

"I am aware that one should message a mod before posting a poem in the critique sub-forums"

Huh? Where did you get that idea?

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Roger
I believe I got the idea that a new member is expected to message a moderator before posting their first poem in a workshop forum from the rules/guidence for new members.
Please inform me if that has changed.