Assonance and consonance are subtle, yet the most powerful techniques to make free verse memorable. The workshop is still open to new participants.
Check the workshop at
http://www.neopoet.com/workshop/assonance-and-consonance

We are now working on how subtle sounds strongly re-inforce the content and meaning of your work.

cheers
Jess

But I seem to be myself, I've spent the day writing fairly harsh critiques and enjoying it thoroughly despite the fact my head hurts, my body aches and I can't raise my right arm.

Ah, harsh honest critiques, and one pretty crappy poem are the best therapy!

They are powerful tools, especially for enhancing free verse. We are now running the workshop 'Assonance and consonance' but will keep enrolments open, drop in and check it out.
http://www.neopoet.com/workshop/assonance-and-consonance

cheers
Jess

Tell us the workshops you want.
We have a few ideas

'Meter for real beginners

Assonance and consonance

Ideas for poems

Profound ideas

silliness

internal logic

find your alter ego

surrealistic poetry

using Advanced Formatting

I will add the ideas to the syllabus

Do add anything you can think of. I will add them to the ideas.

Love, Jess

It's a movie about Coleridge and Wordsworth and the creative process and it grabs me every time
You may find it hard to find, it wasn't a blockbuster, but any good video shop should have it or be able to get it for you.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210217/

Did you know that in his time Coleridge was also regarded as a great critic?

It is open to the Stream. The Workshops are an integral part of Neopoet.
You are just asked to read the syllabus of the workshop to understand the context.

Some workshops specifically ask members to ignore content to learn technique, others ask them to post rough drafts to show development.

It is not writ large on the page, so you could miss it, but if you see a poem is a workshop poem, please read the syllabus before commenting. Feedback from the participants is usually highlighted in blue box, that's another sign you may have missed that it is a workshop poem.

Read the Community Guidelines
http://new.neopoet.com/community-guidelines
They say nothing about critting content, only about critting the poet personally.

Some people have smugly suggested that they are not critting commenting "according to the rules". Utter bullshit.

Do a search with the word 'content'
Every single hit is about critting comment.

Maybe i am.
and why?
In four years at Neopoet I have learned more about the writing of poetry, and the reading of it, than in the fourty years before that. That was a direct result of writing exactly as I thought of each poem. And being prepared to accept poo flung back.

Almost all the great poets we know grew their poetry in an immediate community of poets. We are trying to do it online. Where of course, we can edit so much before speech.

So we need to say it true and now.

I'd like to refer you to Lou's latest workshop "Brainstorming" and join in there. The Sharks can wait til after this one which is an innovative new approach and worth supporting.
http://new.neopoet.com/node/6508
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Well, it's been 6 workshops now and we seem to have some solid regulars. As the site re-opens to the public can I ask you all to be nice to the newcomers (yes, me too). They are brave enough entering a place with this name.

I am genuinely asking all of you who have participated or even commented for feedback and ideas.

I would like to do the next one on meter again. It's a musical aspect of poetry too often abused and ignored in both free and classic verse.

But I'm an anarchist. Tell me what you want and the consensus will prevail.